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UNHCR flies in relief for Somalis cut off by flooding

An airplane – a Fokker 50 cargo freighter - carrying six metric tons of aid items from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, landed on November 4 in Belet Weyne in Somalia’s Hiirshabelle state to assist people displaced by the country’s worst flooding in...

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UN peacekeepers warn of increasing global challenges

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A peacekeeping officer during a patrol in the streets of Gao, Mali, performed daily by United...

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UNHCR troubled by latest U.S. refugee resettlement cut

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is troubled by the U.S. decision, announced on November 2, to reduce, substantially and for the third consecutive year, the number of refugees it will admit for resettlement in the United States over the coming year.

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Somali refugees return home from Yemen in latest UNHCR-facilitated departure

More than 4,800 Somali refugees have now returned home from Yemen since UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commenced an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) programme in 2017. In the latest departure, a boat carrying 114 Somali refugees left the Port of Aden...

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