Refugees

YemenExtra Y.A The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Sunday said that 4,940 Somali refugees have left Yemen and returned to Somalia since 2017. UNHCR indicated, in a press release, that 131 Somali refugees…

YemenExtra SH.A. According to the official Saba News Agency, Prime Minister Abdul Aziz ben Habtour on Sunday met with David Derthick, acting Chief of Mission in International Organization for Migration ( IOM ) in Yemen. The meeting…

YemenExtra Y.A The forces of the so-called Security Belt, backed militarily and financially by the UAE , yesterday, detained dozens of displaced families from Tihama on their way to the city of Aden. Sources told "YemenExtra" that the…

YemenExtra Y.A The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Monday the evacuation of 124 Somali refugees from Yemen to their country on a voluntary basis. "These refugees were evacuated from the port of Aden in…

YemenExtra Y.A The Director of the Department of Refugee Affairs and Deportation in the city of Aden, Colonel Khalid al-Alwani ,said that he received a telephone call from Interior Minister, Ben Dagher Ahmed al-Misri, ordering him to…

YemenExtra Y.A Thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets alongside African refugees in Tel Aviv to protest Israel's policy of deporting and jailing asylum seekers. The Saturday protest was held in the city's southern regions…

YemenExtra M.A. Tension mounts at refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, where thousands of persecuted Rohingya Muslims are expected to be repatriated to Myanmar, after Bangladesh threatened to cut their food ration if they do not…

YemenExtra Y.A The United States has withheld tens of millions of dollars in money for a United Nations agency tasked with providing services for Palestinian refugees. The administration of US President Donald Trump held back 65…

YemenExtra Y.A The US has reportedly cut off $125 million in funding for a UN agency that provides aid to Palestinian refugees, less than a week after US President Donald Trump threatened to hold back future aid payments to the…

YemenExtra M.A. Thousands of refugees trapped in Serbia have been facing systematic abuse, police brutality and violence as they desperately suffer to seek shelter in Europe. "I could not imagine that European police could be so…