The UNHCR and ECOWAS recently signed an MoU to improve the protection environment for stateless persons. Pierre is eighteen years old. He was born to Burkinabe parents in Ghana. He was not registered at birth and neither were his parents. An orphan with no nationality, Pierre is stateless. Whi...

From the 20 to 22 of August, a workshop was organized for the newly elected refugee committees of Goudoubo by UNHCR and IEDA-Relief in order to continue their capacity-building and ensure an effective community based management of camps. The training included principles of coordination and admin...

On the 16 August, 2013, UNHCR, with the participation of CONAREF, the NGO HELP-Germany, OCADES and the Direction Régionale de l’Environement et du Développement Durable, launched the beginning of a re-forestation exercise in order to improve the environment of the host population that have so warmly...