Refugees
In Haiti, children who fled gang wars face uncertain future
Separated from their parents, they pass time between organised activities by resting on the foam mattresses laid out on the concrete floors of the school in the...
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Refugees in CT say they have no reason to celebrate World Refugee Day
June the 20th is designated by the United Nations (UN) to honour refugees around the globe but for those living in the Mother City, they claim that government doesn’t care about them.
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Battleground Ukraine: Day 27 of Russia's invasion
Western sources said Russian forces were consolidating their positions but Ukrainian forces were showing no sign of stopping resistance and were hitting back with counterattacks.
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Nearly 875,000 refugees have fled Ukraine conflict: UN
In all, 874,026 people have fled across the country's borders, according to the website of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency.
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Refugee women in Greece promote gender equality through film
Refugees from Congo, Syria, Afghanistan and Iran, the women are being trained by GlobalGirl Media, an organisation teaching digital media and journalism skills to young women from under-served communities.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: This Africa Day, we must pay attention to our shortcomings
While we celebrate the progress we have made towards building a peaceful and prosperous continent, events in faraway North Africa show that we still have a long way to go, writes President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Parly welcomes reintegration of foreign nationals who staged protest in CT
Hundreds of foreign nationals have for over a year been accommodated temporarily in tents in Bellville and Wingfield - this is after they had participated in a sit-in outside the UN Refugee Agency in October 2019 demanding to leave the country.
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Protesting foreign nationals living in Bellville say they won't move
The government has given them two options - either repatriate or reintegrate into communities.
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Kenya orders closure of camps housing over 400,000 refugees
The interior ministry instructed the UN refugee agency to develop a plan within 14 days for shuttering the decades-old settlements of Kakuma, in Kenya's remote northwest, and Dadaab in its far east near the border of Somalia.
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900+ CT refugees to be repatriated if they refuse to reintegrate into society
The refugees have been temporarily sheltered at the Wingfield Military Base and Paint City since the start of the lockdown.
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‘We’ve been abandoned’ – Refugees in CT plead for more help
It’s been about 12 weeks since about 800 refugees began living in a massive tent in Goodwood for the duration of the lockdown, and they say that things are difficult.
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Govt facing court action over foreign nationals' access to COVID-19 grant
The special COVID-19 grant is open to South African citizens, refugee status holders and permanent residents only.
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HRW calls on govt to aid refugees, asylum seekers ‘facing starvation’
The organisation said government had been biased in its COVID-19 food aid programmes, claiming it was overlooking foreign nationals.
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Human Rights Watch accuses SA govt of being biased with COVID-19 food aid
The organisation said it received numerous pleas from the foreign nationals, who included LGBT people who fled their countries escaping persecution.
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Foreign nationals living in CT church to be accommodated during lockdown
The men, women, and children have been camping in the city since October after they were removed from outside the UN Refugee Agency offices where they were demanding assistance to leave the country due to xenophobia.
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Stranded CT foreign nationals say they don’t want to be repatriated
Refugee leader Papy Sukami, who appeared in court on Friday on robbery and assault charges, said they didn’t want to be deported and still wanted to be resettled.
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Foreign national woman allegedly caught in CT eviction fracas gives birth
She was among the foreign nationals who were forced away from Greenmarket Square on Sunday.
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Chaos erupts in CT CBD as refugees removed from ‘new home’ by police
The group of asylum-seekers moved to the St Mary's Cathedral after they were forced away from outside the Central Methodist Church in Greenmarket Square on Sunday morning.
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Refugees removed from living outside a church in CT CBD find a new home
The city enforced an interim court order granted by the Western Cape High Court against the group, which had been camping outside the Central Methodist Church in Greenmarket Square since October last year.
