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UNHCR Press Release
news UNHCR, 29 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )Involuntary refugee returns to Nigeria must be avoided - UNHCR UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed over a fresh incident of forced returns of refugees from Cameroon into northeast Nigeria. This follows similar incidents earlier in the year, and more recently, repeated warnings that refugees ... -
5.6 million children at risk of waterborne diseases as rainy season hits communities affected by Lake Chad crisis
news United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 23 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )DAKAR/ GENEVA/ABUJA, 23 June 2017 – More than 5.6 million children are at increased risk of contracting waterborne diseases, such as cholera and diarrheal infections, as the rainy season begins in conflict-affected areas of countries around Lake Chad, UNICEF warned today. The threat of disease outbr... -
Statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on returns to northeast Nigeria
news UNHCR, 21 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )I am extremely worried that large numbers of Nigerian refugees hosted in Cameroon are again returning to northeast Nigeria - into a situation dangerously unprepared to receive them. Three weeks ago UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warned about the situation in the Nigerian border town of Banki where tho... -
Head of Peacekeeping Mission in Central African Republic Stresses Need to ‘Stay the Course’, as He Briefs Security Council amid New Violence
news UN Security Council, 12 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )SC/12865 Security Council 7965th Meeting (AM) Killings Must End, Says National Representative, Urging Dialogue with Armed Groups Violence in the Central African Republic — including attacks on minority groups and peacekeepers — harkened back to the darkest days of that country’s past, but ... -
L’insécurité alimentaire représente un plus grand défi en période de conflit civil et de sécheresse
news Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 09 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )Le rapport de la FAO souligne des pertes importantes dues à la perturbation des activités agricoles, à la hausse des prix et au déplacement des moyens d’existence 09 juin 2017, Rome - Selon le dernier rapport de la FAO sur les Perspectives de récolte et la situation alimentaire, les bonnes récolt... -
Le défi de l'accueil des réfugiés centrafricains au Cameroun
news VOAAFRIQUE, 06 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )Les autorités camerounaises font face à une crise d'infrastructures de base dans 16 communes abritant les camps des réfugiés centrafricains. -
Thousands of Nigeria's returning refugees need humanitarian assistance – UN refugee agency
news UN, 02 Jun 2017 (6 years ago )2 June 2017 – As thousands of refugees return from Cameroon to north-eastern Nigeria, straining the few existing services and creating a new emergency, the United Nations refugee agency is stepping up its response to improve conditions -
Hope hard to kindle for the forgotten refugees of Central African Republic
news The Guardian, 29 May 2017 (6 years ago )In Mbilé refugee camp in the east of Cameroon, home to 11,000 people from Central African Republic, making even a small fire has all too often been the stuff of nightmares. Until last year, the women in charge of such chores would have to walk up to five hours a day to pick up what firewood they ... -
Cameroon Communities, Refugees at Odds Over Food Shortages
news Voice of America (VOA), 15 May 2017 (6 years ago )May 15, 2017 1:47 PM Anne Look / Moki Edwin Kindzeka MINAWAO, CAMEROON — Food shortages in northern Cameroon are raising tensions between local communities and Nigerian refugees displaced by the Boko Haram conflict. As a quarrel erupted between hawkers at the food market near the Minawao refu... -
Le HCR et la Cédéao autour de la table pour lutter contre l'apatridie
news RFI, 07 May 2017 (6 years ago )A Banjul, à partir de ce dimanche 7 mai et jusqu'à mardi, le Haut-Commissariat aux réfugiés (HCR, qui gère aussi les apatrides) et la Cédéao organisent une réunion ministérielle pour traiter le problème de l'apatridie en Afrique de l'Ouest. Le continent est fortement touché par la question de ces pe...