A series of report on the occasion on World Refugee Day,.First report is about Adieu Achul who faced a bleak future. Her family was slaughtered when she was a youngster in what is now South Sudan, and she grew up in the Kenyan refugee camp of Dadaab. Achul has worked hard to establish himself as an entrepreneur and activist, and he also collects money for camp inmates. From Nairobi, Juma Majanga tells her experience.
According to the United Nations, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes around the world will reach 82.4 million by the end of 2020, the greatest number ever. In advance of World Refugee Day on Sunday, June 20, VOA’s Laurel Bowman has more on the UN’s annual report.
Burkina Faso’s 1.2 million internally displaced persons have been called the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian disaster by the United Nations, but the government refuses to recognise thousands of IDPs who are left without assistance. Over a million IDPs residing in official camps have been denied access to the media. In this report from Ouagadougou, reporter Henry Wilkins chronicles a day in the life of a “invisible” IDP.
After spent much of their youth fleeing Islamist violence and dealing with trauma, Malian refugees Amiri Ag Abdoulaye and Mohammed Ould Najim met in a Burkina Faso refugee camp. The young guys enrolled in a programme developed by an internationally renowned Burkinabè dancer that teaches marginalised youngsters how to use dance as a vehicle for healing and reconciliation. This is a report from Ouagadougou by Clair MacDougall.
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One of the top entry points for migrants under the age of eighteen who enter the United States without proper documentation or adult companions is still South Texas.Although fewer crossings took place in the fiscal year 2024 than in previous years, the risks these children face remain concerning.
Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina who has spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia, will be coming home but will stay behind bars for the immediate future after being transferred to the custody of Philippine authorities, officials said.
Many of the estimated 176,000 migrants living in Lebanon are African women who are working menial jobs.Many of them have been displaced since the start of the conflict and are facing uncertain futures.
Nicolas de Rivière,Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, briefs reporters after the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
This week marks 1,000 days of fighting in Ukraine.For millions of Ukrainians, including 32-year-old Oleh Reshetnyak and his loved ones in Kyiv, the mounting death toll, air raid sirens, and explosions have been a grim reality.
James Kariuki,Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the Month of November, chairs the Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya.
Over half a million people, many of them were refugees who initially fled the Syrian conflict, have fled Lebanon into Syria in the last two months.According to those returning to Idlib, Syria’s last opposition stronghold, they are fleeing to a location that is marginally safer than Lebanon,without homes, jobs or humanitarian aid waiting for them.
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