The new United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees visited Kakuma refugee camp in north-west Kenya on Monday where he ...

Barham Salih has known torture and the wrenching loss of exile. Four decades after his own ordeal, he has taken the helm of ...

In his first interview since taking office on 1 Jan, the new head of the UN refugee agency, Dr Barham Salih, speaks to the ...

The UN has suspended medical aid for refugees in Egypt due to severe funding cuts, its refugee agency said on Monday. Some 20,000 patients will be affected, a spokeswoman for the Geneva-based Office ...

More than 50 refugees fleeing fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have died in neighbouring Burundi, the United ...

In Nairobi, the High Commissioner met with President William Ruto and other senior government officials. Salih lauded Kenya’s historic role in welcoming refugees and thanked Ruto for the government’s ...

Sudan’s deepening war is driving unprecedented levels of hunger, child malnutrition and displacement, UN agencies report, as ...

When an exodus of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh a decade ago, the United Nations recorded many of their birthdays as Jan. 1. The date serves as a reminder of a lost identity.

Washington, DC – 12 August 2024 – The Paris Summer Olympics draw to a close with many individual and team achievements – including the first medal won by a member of the UN Refugee Team. Their ...

The UNHCR said it is cutting around 3,500 staff jobs — Sanaullah SEIAM The UN refugee agency said Monday it will cut 3,500 staff jobs -- slashing nearly a third of its workforce costs -- due to a ...

The outgoing United Nations refugee chief fears an increasingly fragmented world is fuelling global conflicts and crises, and ...

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, estimates that 2.5 million refugees worldwide will need to be resettled next year, according to the Projected Global Resettlement Needs report released this ...