More than 2,000 African asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants camping since early October 2021 in precarious conditions in front of a shuttered United Nations facility are in dire need of shelter, ...

Countries are only "slowly" making headway in meeting promises to relocate stranded refugees and asylum-seekers in Libya and Niger, a senior UN official says. Nearly 48,000 people are in Libya, some ...

TRIPOLI, Libya – In response to Libya’s growing humanitarian crisis stemming from conflict, insecurity, political instability and a collapsing economy, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is discussing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Refugees and asylum seekers on board an overcrowded boat are approached by the crew of the search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 5, ...

A study of mixed refugee and migrant flows by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has found that around half of those travelling to Libya do so believing they can find jobs there, but end up fleeing onwards ...

This statement was originally published on cihrs.org on 17 April 2025. The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the Libyan authorities’ latest crackdown on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) ...

UNITED NATIONS — The new U.N. envoy to Libya has underscored the volatile security situation in the oil-rich country, with political rivals and armed groups competing for control over territory and a ...

CAIRO/ATHENS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Bahr el-Din Yakoub fled Sudan to seek sanctuary in Egypt after a missile ripped through his home in Khartoum and killed four of his friends. But economic hardship and ...

In May 1939, a ship called the St. Louis departed from Hamburg, Germany, with 937 passengers, most of them Jews fleeing the Holocaust. They had been promised disembarkation rights in Cuba, but when ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Libya said that only 13 people survived after a vessel carrying 74 people, mostly Sudanese refugees, capsized on Tuesday off the coast of the ...