United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

There are many stateless people in Nigeria and the UNHCR says it wants to help

by Jewel Stephen The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said it will help Nigeria in providing technical support for the conduct of a national study on statelessness. Ms Emmanuelle Mitte, the Regional Head of Statelessness Unit of UNHCR in West Africa, while speaking in Hague on Thursday, on the sideline of the... Read More

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September 17, 2014

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Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram need $34m – UNHCR

by James Sambo With over 75 000 people displaced in the battle against insurgents in NorthEast and NorthCentral Nigeria, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called on donors to fund urgent operations refugees fleeing from insurgents into Cameroon, Chad and Niger. The UNHCR and its 16 partners said that $34million is needed... Read More

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