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Malawi Govt Orders Thousands Of Refugees Back To Camp

Malawi Govt Orders Thousands Of Refugees Back To Camp

May 7, 2021 8:09 am

According to a UN forecast, there are around 2,000 refugees residing outside the camp at Dzaleka, about 40 kilometers (30 miles) north of the capital Lilongwe most of which has been ordered into a camp by Malawian authorities.

Many have lived there for years, setting up businesses in the town or marrying Malawians and having children with them.

But the government argues they pose a potential danger to national security by living among locals.

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‘We are not chasing them, and we just want them to be where they should …

UN: Poor nations hosting most refugees globally

UN: Poor nations hosting most refugees globally

June 19, 2019 2:53 am

Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world’s refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million displaced people who have fled war and persecution, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

Half of the world’s forcibly displaced are children and the 2018 total is the highest in nearly 70 years, the U.N. refugee agency said in its annual flagship report, Global Trends.

But the global figure, which comprises 25.9 million refugees, 41.3 million people uprooted within their homelands, and 3.5 million asylum-seekers, is “conservative”, it said.

That is because it does not include …

US to send hospital ship to Venezuela to help refugees

May 7, 2019 11:18 pm

A U.S. Navy hospital ship will embark on another humanitarian mission to help countries cope with an influx of Venezuelans fleeing a deep economic and political crisis, the Trump administration announced Tuesday.

The USNS Comfort will leave in June on a 5-month mission to South America, Central America and the Caribbean to help countries “overwhelmed” by the more than 3 million Venezuelan refugees who have fled in recent years, Vice President Mike Pence said.

“The rising desperation in Venezuela has fueled a mass exodus, the likes of which we have never seen in the Western Hemisphere,” Pence said in a …

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