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Children take refuge at a Catholic school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 30 July 2022, after escaping gang violence in the Cité Soleil area. Picture: Richard Pierrin / AFP.

Refugees

In Haiti, children who fled gang wars face uncertain future

By AFP

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...

  • FILE: One part of a group of about 630 people, refugees originally from Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Bangladesh, and other countries who are sleeping in a large tent in Bellville, Cape Town, on 22 September 2020. Picture: AFP

    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.

    50 days ago
  • FILE: After deadly airstrikes in Ukraine's west last week, there have been no reports of significant military action in the region or around Dnipro. Picture: Fadel Senna/AFP

    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.

    140 days ago
  • Ukrainian servicemen get ready to repel an attack in Ukraine's Lugansk region on 24 February 2022. Picture: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP

    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.

    159 days ago
  • Young refugees and Greek women film during an interview on gender-based violence with Loretta Macauley, from African Women Organization Greece in Athens on 25 May 2021. Picture: LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP

    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.

    413 days ago
  • ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa arrives at the state capture commission of inquiry on 29 April 2021 for his second day on the witness stand. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    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.

    442 days ago
  • Foreign nationals living at the Paint City Bellville site on 30 April 2021. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News.

    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.

    454 days ago
  • Foreign nationals living at the Paint City Bellville site on 30 April 2021. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News.

    Protesting foreign nationals living in Bellville say they won't move

    The government has given them two options - either repatriate or reintegrate into communities.

    466 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on 28 April, 2015 is seen an overview of the part of the eastern sector of the IFO-2 camp in the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp, north of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Picture: AFP

    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.

    502 days ago
  • FILE: Refugees living in Cape Town spent the night at the Central Methodist Mission Church after clashes with police during their removal from the UNHCR's offices on 30 October 2019. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN.

    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.

    774 days ago
  • Refugee Fatuma Rukundo with her two-month-old baby inside their tent at the Wingfield military site in Goodwood where more than 800 refugees have been living since lockdown began. Picture: Kaylynn Palm.EWN

    ‘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.

    777 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals at the UN Refugee Agency in Cape Town on 14 October 2019. The foreign nationals say they fear being victims of xenophobic attacks and are sitting-in at the agency, hoping that they will be assisted to leave SA. Picture: Supplied

    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.

    797 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals at the UN Refugee Agency in Cape Town on 14 October 2019. Picture: Supplied

    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.

    809 days ago
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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.

    809 days ago
  • FILE: The foreign nationals, among them refugees, had been staging a sit-in at the Methodist Church in the Cape Town CBD and demanding they be helped to leave South Africa. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    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.

    865 days ago
  • Foreign nationals a few metres from Cape Town's Central Police Station. They say most people no longer have the accommodation they had four months back, and because they have nowhere to go they might as well be arrested. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    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.

    878 days ago
  • Foreign nationals a few metres from Cape Town's Central Police Station. They say most people no longer have the accommodation they had four months back, and because they have nowhere to go they might as well be arrested. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    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.

    885 days ago
  • Law enforcement and SAPS are still surrounding the St Mary’s Cathedral as the refugee group watches on, sitting on the pavement. The mattresses and other belongings left around the church are also being cleaned out. Picture: Jarita Kassen/EWN

    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.

    890 days ago
  • Hundreds of foreigners protest in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town on 18 December 2019. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    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.

    890 days ago
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