UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply saddened by the deaths of two Eritrean asylum-seekers, who are reported to have been shot inside their accommodation in Tripoli on Thursday, 9 January. Our ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee agency, evacuated yesterday 159 Eritrean asylum-seekers from Tripoli airport to the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) in Niamey, continuing its commitment to offer protection to ...

NIAMEY – Rahel*, a 29-year-old Eritrean refugee, was hoping for a new life of freedom and opportunity in Europe when she took the dangerous overland route across Africa. Instead, she found herself ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today relocated another 150 refugees who were detained in the Abu Selim detention centre in south Tripoli to UNHCR’s Gathering and Departure Facility (GDF) in the centre ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Libya said that only 13 people survived after a vessel carrying 74 people, mostly Sudanese refugees, capsized on Tuesday off the coast of the ...

A Swedish court ruled that an Eritrean refugee convicted of raping then-16-year-old Meya Åberg will not be deported after serving his sentence due to the “duration of the incident,” according to a ...

Prosecutors in the Netherlands on Wednesday asked judges to convict an Eritrean suspect accused of being a notorious trafficker who tortured African ...