Refugees in Igne, Republic of Congo founded an agricultural cooperative to transform small land plots into thriving farms. Credit: Lisungi / World Bank. The Lisungi project has empowered refugee women ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration can stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. but has to allow in people who were conditionally accepted before the president suspended the nation ...

The global humanitarian funding crisis has forced UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to suspend key life-saving support to refugees in Egypt, leaving tens of thousands of people – including many who fled ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to suspend entry of new refugees as a lawsuit plays out over the president’s executive order halting the nation ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Appeals court allows Trump administration to suspend approval of new refugees amid lawsuit halting admissions program.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo sits firmly in the center of Africa and is the second-largest country by land area in the continent. Home to 115 million people, the country has survived ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the fighting in neighboring eastern Congo, the U.N. World Food Program ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the fighting in neighboring eastern Congo, the U.N. World Food Program said ...

The terms refugee, immigrant and internally displaced people (herein referred as IDPs) may sound to bear similar meanings but are “quite different in their nature and scope. According to the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The United States Embassy in South Africa said Thursday that it received a list of nearly 70,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Trump ...

GENEVA – Brutal funding cuts in the humanitarian sector are putting millions of lives at risk. The consequences for people fleeing danger will be immediate and devastating: Refugee women and girls at ...

But observers say the suspension of the United States refugee programme has turned that national image on its head. On January 27, the sprawling system the US uses to approve, admit and relocate ...