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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi statement at the launch of Kenya’s Shirika Plan ⬇️ unhcr.org/news/speeches-…

Funding cuts impact on Refugees health: Without adequate resources, an estimated 12.8 m displaced people, including 6.3 m children, could be left without life-saving health interventions. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Briefing Note: unhcr.org/news/briefing-…

Kenya: launching a groundbreaking initiative to improve the lives of more than 830,000 refugees and asylum-seekers & their generous hosts. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency News Release on the Shirika Plan: ⬇️ unhcr.org/news/press-rel…




Myanmar Earthquake: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appealing for $16 million to assist 1.2 million people who survived last week’s devastating earthquake. Babar Baloch briefs the press on latest UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency update: unhcr.org/news/briefing-…


Since January, over 41,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩 have sought safety in Uganda 🇺🇬, bringing the total number of Congolese in Uganda to nearly 600,000. Matthew Crentsil, head of UNHCR Uganda, warns that reception centres at the border are overflowing.


Noon briefing today: our guest today will be the Regional Director for East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Mamadou Dian Balde. Live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1o/k…

“Sudanese are besieged on all sides – war, widespread abuses, indignity, hunger and other hardships. And they face indifference from the outside world, which for the past two years has shown scant interest in bringing peace” UN Refugees Filippo Grandi ⬇️: unhcr.org/news/press-rel…


