The Rwandan government is claiming it is owed £100m by the UK over payments due under an asylum agreement cancelled by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Rwanda has filed an international arbitration ...

KIGALI - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are increasingly concerned about the deteriorating conditions of tens of thousands ...

A team of RIT students and a professor spent their college winter break collecting GPS data points and conducting economic surveys for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at ...

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of the Congo, August 4 (UNHCR) - Mami Nyirabyango was just a child when she fled deep into the forest of eastern Congo in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. By the ...

Congolese and Burundian refugees in Rwanda face steep cuts in food and aid supplies as agencies struggle with dwindling support. In some camps, rations have been reduced by more than half, forcing ...

Police officers who shot at Congolese refugees protesting cuts to the subsistence allowances and support they received must be investigated and held to account, Amnesty International said, one year ...

On Nov. 14, CNN shocked the world with its video news report of black African migrants being sold into slavery in Libya. Eight days later, the Rwandan government issued a press release headlined, ...

In the past 24 hours at least 3,000 people, including 1,800 children[i], havecrossed into Rubavu district in Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following increasingly volatile volcanic ...

On the bumpy road leading out of Mahama refugee camp, in eastern Rwanda, women used to travel for as much as two hours to reach the nearest hospital – sometimes giving birth on the way. “I remember ...

FILE - Refugees who fled the ethnic bloodbath in neighboring Rwanda carry water containers back to their huts at the Benaco refugee camp in Tanzania, near the border with Rwanda, May 17, 1994. (AP ...

A taekwondo-based sports festival aimed at promoting social inclusion and youth empowerment among refugees and host-community youth will take place in Kigali from February 4 to 6. The three-day ...