The ongoing fighting in Mogadishu and central Somalia is pushing thousands of Somali civilians to risk their lives to cross the Gulf of Aden and seek asylum in Yemen.

According to our network of part...

Photos and other information on UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie's visit to Baghdad yesterday is now available on our new website: www.unhcr.org . Video will be available later this morning. W...

Thousands of Congolese have been uprooted by the latest escalation of fighting in the South Kivu province of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Our initial estimates show that at least 35...

BAGHDAD - UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie returned to Iraq on Thursday to offer support to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who remain displaced within their own country.

During her day-l...

A new transit centre has been opened in Slovakia that will allow for 98 Palestinian refugees to be removed from the desert camp of al-Walid near the Iraqi-Syrian border where they have been trapped fo...