They are responding to a court order from Wednesday, giving them three days to end their sit-in outside the UN premises.
A case of trespassing has been opened against refugees who entered and occupied the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office premises on Thursday. This comes after the North Gauteng High Court ordered refugees to vacate the area. They’ve been given three days to leave. The order was requested by residents of Waterkloof and Brooklyn. EWN spoke to one of the refugee leaders occupying the offices.
The residents' associations of Brooklyn and Waterkloof are seeking a court order forcing the Tshwane metropolitan authority, South African Police Service and Department of Home Affairs to move the refugees.
Food distribution was the cause of the violence, according to a coordinator with the Chad-based Agency for Economic and Social Development.
The 43-year-old actress and activist has spoken out about the need to help the millions of refugees around the world by embracing the idea of an 'open society'.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government forces have been killing civilians in an insurgency-hit region, prompting the latest influx of refugees into northern Zambia, a senior UN official said.
UNHCR was still there, helping many of the same people now fleeing an internal conflict, he told local government officials in the northern town of Bentiu.
A UN team of investigators said this month that it had uncovered 40 mass grave sites and killings of more than 400 people in Kasai.
The investigators said they had received evidence of rapes, disappearances, mass arrests as well as torture.
The war has killed 250,000 people, displaced millions and created Europe’s worst refugee crisis.
Athens on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Austria in anger over the border closures.
Interior ministers have voted to launch the scheme to tackle the continent’s worst refugee crisis since WWII.
The UNHCR called for more cohesive asylum policies to deal with the growing numbers.
The UN refugee agency said Greece needed to show more leadership and take charge of the situation.
Surge of migrants heading to Europe in 2015
Melissa Fleming says over 30,000 people are forced to flee their homes due to conflict and war everyday.
