I love cricket, and I wanted to do something for my country because I come here Twelve teams from around the world are competing in this year's international tournament for one-day cricket matches, the Twenty20 World Cup. While the presence of perenn...
A Sudanese teenager has made history by becoming the first African-born player to join the professional ranks of the Australian Rules Football League. Phil Mercer | Sydney 16 December 2009 When I first started a lot of my Sudanese friends, the boys,...
Agony in Sri Lanka's refugee camp 斯里兰卡贫民窟里的痛苦 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spent Saturday in Sri Lanka pressing for political reconciliation (调和,协调) and full humanitarian (人道主义) access for displaced people in camps, follo...
The U.N. refugee agency is appealing to European Union countries to make sure that people seeking asylum are given a fair hearing of their claims for international protection. The UNHCR says it is concerned about the treatment of the growing number...
The U.N. refugee agency says it is concerned that new, smuggling rings taking advantage of refugees may be developing in eastern Sudan. It says 21 refugees from Eritrea and Somalia are feared to have drowned recently when their overloaded boat capsi...
Afghan government and United Nations humanitarian officials say the flow of refugees, who have been streaming back into the country recently, is so far manageable and not expected to cause a crisis. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman reports from Kabul....
A new report finds nearly a third of refugees and other people cared for by the U.N. refugee agency are not getting their basic needs met. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from UNHCR headquarters in Geneva. Congolese refugee's take shelter, at the Nyaka...
The U.N. refugee agency's annual conference opens in Geneva on Monday. Representatives from the UNHCR's 76-nation governing body will attend the week-long meeting to set the work agenda for the coming year. They will focus on the needs and actions t...
A group of Darfurian refugees who recently fled the war in Sudan have gathered across the border in the northern Central African Republic. But rather than living in a displacement camp as is usually the case for refugees, they live on their own, in...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 20 June 2008 As fighting in Somalia between Islamist insurgents and the transitional government backed by Ethiopian troops has intensified over the past year, thousands of refugees have been streaming into neighboring Kenya,...