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RCA provides emergency aid to Palestinian refugees in Syria

April 12, 2013 15:07
Emergency humanitarian aid worth more than AED 2.8 million to help Palestinian refugees in Syria will be provided by the UAE's Red Crescent Authority (RCA) in coordination with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The relief aid will be procured from local Syrian markets by the UAE major humanitarian agency whose Syria operation contributes to UNRWA's efforts to help more than 126000 crisis-hit Palestinians in and outside Syria. Last March, UNRWA estimated that about four hundred thousand Palestinian refugees were in need o

UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement on Sri Lankan refugees

April 12, 2013 11:51
Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organisations Dr Saeed Al Shamsi has issued the following statement: "On 14 October 2012 the ship Pinnacle Bliss recovered a group of 45 Sri Lankan nationals from a sinking vessel and subsequently transferred them to Jebel Ali port in Dubai, UAE. The UAE facilitated the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to meet with these persons, all of whom requested political asylum.

UN concerned as more Syrians return home from Jordan

April 12, 2013 10:16
More Syrian refugees are opting to return home from Jordan, with around 300 now crossing back into the war-ravaged country each day, the UN's refugee agency said Friday, voicing deep concern for their safety. UNHCR said it had seen an increase in the past 10 days in the number of people crossing from Jordan into Syria, although it stressed that a far larger number of Syrians continued to flood across the border in the opposite direction.

Mali refugees face 'deplorable' conditions: aid group

April 12, 2013 06:00
Tens of thousands of Malian refugees are suffering "deplorable" conditions in Mauritanian desert camps, with just one toilet between 3,000 people, and two infants dying every day, a top aid charity said on Friday. Some 74,000 Malians displaced by war and ethnic tensions were in need of urgent help, with many falling ill after they arrive due to poor sanitary conditions, the Doctors without Borders (MSF) group said in a report.

UN agency gets ECOWAS passports for ex-Liberian refugees in Nigeria

April 11, 2013 15:51
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday said it had received ECOWAS passports for 395 ex-Liberian refugees in Nigeria. The head of Lagos office for the organization Josephine Smith told reporters that the ex-refugees were among 925 Liberians that opted for local integration, following the agency's June, 2012 cessation of refugees privileges to Liberians in Nigeria. "Out of the 925 ex-Liberians refugees that opted to stay back in Nigeria, after the agency's 2012 cessation of their refugees' rights, we have just received stay permit passports for 39

Jordan opens second camp for Syrian refugees

April 11, 2013 15:46
Jordan on Wednesday opened its second camp for Syrian refugees as their number continues to rise due to the protracted political crisis in their country. The 250-dunums (250,000-square meters) camp has a total of 750 caravans, a water treatment plant, a school and a hospital, said Anmar Hmoud, Jordan's government spokesperson for Syrian refugees' affairs, according to the state-run Petra news agency. "The new camp seeks to reduce pressure on the Zaatari camp, which is home to around 150,000 Syrian refugees," he said, adding that the new camp could eventually host up to 30,000 r

Nearly 1.3M Syrian refugees in neighboring countries -- UN

April 11, 2013 15:46
Nearly 1.3 million Syrians are now either registered as refugees or being assisted in Syria's neighboring countries and North Africa, deputy UN spokesman Eduardo del Buey told reporters here Wednesday. "More than half of the current refugees have left Syria over the last three months, with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) having registered about 7,000 people on average per day for the past four weeks," del Buey said at a daily news briefing here. "To enhance assistance delivery and preparedness, humanitarian agencies are revising the response and contingency plans," he said.

Jordan opens another camp for Syria refugees

April 11, 2013 13:36
Jordan opened a second camp for Syrian refugees on Wednesday after the United Nations said the number seeking shelter in the kingdom is expected to triple by the end of the year, reports AFP. A first group of 106 refugees, who were among 1,306 who crossed the border during the night, were moved to the new Mrigeb al-Fuhud camp, government spokesman for Syrian refugee affairs, Anmar Hmud, told AFP. The 13,000-acre (5,200-hectare) camp, some 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Amman, has 750 caravans, a hospital and a school and can take up to 5,500 people.

Germany, UNHCR sign a EURO 10 M agreement to support refugee hosting districts

April 11, 2013 12:53
KFW Development Bank on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the UN Refugee Agency Thursday signed a financing and project agreement worth EURO 10 Million in support of the Refugee Affected and Hosting Area (RAHA) initiative. The funding will be used in the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The signing ceremony was attended by Ms. Mandy Zeckra - Economic Counsellor at the German Embassy, Dr. Anna-Christine Janke - Country Director KFW Office Pakistan, Mr. Jens Clausen - Head of Division, Crisis and Governance KFW, Frankfurt, Mr.

WFP lauds UAE role in Syrian refugees relief efforts

April 11, 2013 12:53
The World Food Programme (WFP) has lauded the UAE's prompt response to the Syrian refugees' call for aid, following the shattering events that Syrians have been put through, thus making them refugees in huge numbers seeking asylum in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey. The WPF added in its latest report that the refugee camps lack the most basic facilities and food, as well as medicine provisions.
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