GENEVA – Uganda, Africa’s largest refugee host, is witnessing a sharp increase in the number of Congolese refugees crossing its western border due to increased insecurity in the eastern part of the ...

UNHCR and its partners are being forced to close or scale back health, education and other crucial programmes for refugees in Chad due to severe funding shortages.

The ocean holds what we leave behind — a lost flip-flop, kids’ sand toys, used plastic bottles discarded savagely — but also ...

A new future for the Chagos is approaching. On April 1st a British government spokesman said that Britain was finalising a ...

Oui can help  IT’S quite the confession from France.  Its government knows it could solve the small boats crisis overnight by ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed U.K.

A Sri Lankan sex offender seeking asylum in the UK was flown 5,000 miles by private jet for medical treatment in the Middle East at British taxpayers' expense. The clandestine operation was launched ...

The clandestine operation to save the Sri Lankan came after he made an apparent suicide attempt on the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.

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Tehran has warned it will target British forces in the Chagos Islands if Donald Trump follows through on his threat to attack Iran, it has been reported. A security official from the Middle Easten ...

Iran has threatened to strike American bases and 'blow up' the entire Middle East if Donald Trump follows through on his warning of military action in the absence of a new nuclear deal ...

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — The U.S. government has confirmed it would provide $73 million in new financial aid for Rohingya refugees through the United Nations’ food agency, easing ...