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Almost seven years after Australia sent commandos onto a freighter at sea to block illegal immigrants, the government on Tuesday said it would abandon a controversial policy of jailing asylum...
Sierra Leoneans who fled their country's 1990s civil war will lose their refugee status next January 1, a U.N. official said on Monday.
Sierra Leoneans living abroad still classed as refugees must...
The U.N. refugee agency urged South Africa on Friday to stop mass deportations of Zimbabwean migrants, since some of those deported may be asylum seekers who have fled violence and political...
Speech by the Hon. NN Mapisa-Nqakula, RSA Minister of Home Affairs, Introduction of the Debate on Budget 4: Department of Home Affairs, National Assembly
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, voicing deep concern about the xenophobic attacks on refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa, urged Pretoria to grant Zimbabweans the legal right to stay...
The United Nations refugee agency is expanding its operations in Darfur this year to protect more people in the war-torn Sudanese region, and appealed on Friday for $40.3 million to do so.
Some...
The Sudanese army began an offensive in the mountainous Jabel Moun area on Tuesday in its latest attempt to reclaim the West Darfur district from insurgents who took up arms five years ago.
The...