The Latest Breaking News from UNHCR

The UN refugee agency said Monday it will cut 3,500 staff jobs -- slashing nearly a third of its workforce costs -- due to a funding shortfall, and reduce the scale of its help worldwide.

Figures recorded at the end of last year show that global displacement has almost doubled over the last decade.

Actor and UN refugee ambassador delivers warning on authoritarian regimes as first five film-makers announced for funding

UNHCR says two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10 could be the ‘deadliest tragedy at sea’ involving Rohingya so far this year.

Kigali in talks to house migrant deportees from US, but rights groups worry such deals further endanger the vulnerable.

The international humanitarian system is in freefall. Following the dramatic funding cuts initiated by Donald Trump’s administration in the United States, deliveries of essential food, medicines and clean water to those in need have halted and stockpiles are dwindling. Aid agencies are scrambling to figure out how to do less…

Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who have been living in eastern Congo since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have been repatriated

UN World Food Programme says $50m is urgently needed amid fears that Uganda may now begin forced repatriations

Rwanda is in the early stages of talks to receive immigrants deported from the United States, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said.