ARTICLES RELATING TO REFUGEES

Media heads to ConCourt over Refugee Act

2013-05-13 20:26

Argument on sections of the law on the confidentiality of asylum applications, will be heard in the Constitutional Court.

SAHRC welcomes refugee ruling

2013-03-20 07:19

The SA Human Rights Commission has welcomed a court ruling that the department of home affairs must re-open a refugee reception office in central Cape Town by July.

UN says 400 000 refugees may flee Mali

2013-01-18 14:56

Up to 700 000 people are expected to be uprooted by the violence in Mali, including 400 000 who could flee to neighbouring countries in the coming months, the UN refugee agency says.

900 000 blocked from aid in Sudan

2013-01-09 11:30

The director of the UN humanitarian operations has blamed the Sudanese government and rebels for blocking all humanitarian aid from two southern states where 900 000 people need help.

55 drowned or missing off Somali coast

2012-12-21 13:24

The UN refugee agency says 55 people have drowned or are missing after an overcrowded boat capsized off the Somali coast.

Australia deportations challenged

2012-12-04 09:00

A group of 56 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers have challenged their deportation from Australia, claiming the government ignored pleas that they risked persecution back home, say advocates.

Australia denies refugee policy failure

2012-11-22 12:04

Australia has denied its policies to combat people-smuggling have failed as a decision to release asylum-seekers into the community with little help or support was blasted as "a new low".

140 missing as asylum-seeker boat sinks

2012-08-30 08:01

Rescuers are searching for scores of asylum seekers a day after their boat sank off the Indonesian coast. Six people have been rescued, but more than 140 remain missing.

2 African boat migrants dead off Malta

2012-08-16 14:14

Malta's navy has recovered two bodies and rescued about 160 African migrants from two boats which got into trouble on the Mediterranean Sea, an armed forces spokesperson says.

UN starts food airdrops in S Sudan

2012-08-15 12:39

The UN says it has started airdrops to deliver emergency food to a camp in South Sudan packed with people fleeing fighting on the Sudan side of the joint border.

Australia 'needs offshore refugee centres'

2012-08-13 09:02

Australia should transfer asylum-seekers offshore to places such as Nauru and Papua New Guinea to deter boatpeople from risking their lives at sea, says a government-ordered report.

Cape Town court victory for refugees

2012-07-26 11:30

The Western Cape High Court has ordered the home affairs department to urgently resume documenting new asylum seekers and refugee applicants in Cape Town, reports say.

Iraq lets Syrian refugees in

2012-07-23 19:45

Iraqi state TV says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has formally authorised the entry of Syrian refugees into his country.

Uganda seeks help with influx of refugees

2012-07-11 12:50

Ugandan officials are calling for an emergency meeting in Ethiopia to discuss how to end violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Migrants die of thirst off N African coast

2012-07-11 08:58

Fifty four people trying to reach Italy from Libya died of thirst after a 15-day voyage in which their rubber boat gradually deflated, the UNHCR says.

Australia rescues 162 immigrants from boat

2012-07-05 11:03

Two Australian navy patrol boats have rescued 162 people from an asylum seeker boat in trouble in Indonesian waters and are taking them to an immigration detention centre.

MSF laments S Sudan refugee crisis

2012-07-02 09:09

MSF has warned of dire medical consequences in South Sudan refugee camps, where tens of thousands of people are seeking refuge as they continue to flee war in Sudan.

Gay asylum seekers speak of discrimination

2012-06-27 14:33

Gay African asylum seekers struggle to find work and battle homophobic discrimination in South Africa, the continent's only nation to allow same-sex marriage, a report shows.

Angolan refugees return to unsure future

2012-06-26 11:39

Thousands of Angolan refugees are trekking home hoping for a new start in life a decade after the end of brutal wars that drove them to neighbouring countries.

ANC's spaza shop proposal condemned

2012-06-25 12:35

A civil rights organisation has condemned an ANC proposal to curtail township spaza shops owned by foreigners.

Bid to keep Cape Town refugee centre open

2012-06-22 10:36

The Legal Resources Centre has launched an application in the Western Cape High Court keep the Maitland Refugee reception office open.

Asylum-seeker boat capsizes off Australia

2012-06-21 12:05

An asylum-seeker boat from Sri Lanka believed to be carrying 200 people has capsized off remote Christmas Island with an unknown number of survivors, say authorities.

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Refugees march to Parliament

2012-06-20 15:33

Refugees and members of civil society groups marched to Parliament in Cape Town demonstrating against the closing down of the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office by the Department of Home Affairs.

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822 000 forced to flee their countries

2012-06-17 22:22

The UN says crises in Libya, Somalia and elsewhere forced 822 000 people to flee their countries last year.

Israel to fly out first S Sudan deportees

2012-06-13 10:35

Israel is to fly a first planeload of Sudanese deportees home with more expected to follow later in the week, a spokesperson for the Population and Migration Authority says.

 

Australia urges Malaysia boatpeople swap

2013-03-26 12:00

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has renewed calls for a refugee swap with Malaysia to deter boatpeople after two asylum-seekers drowned in the latest tragedy at sea.

Syrians fight in refugee camp

2013-02-03 22:43

Officials say clashes have erupted over tent distribution in a Jordanian camp for Syrian refugees, highlighting the difficult living conditions there.

France gives $1.3 for Somalia displaced

2013-01-10 10:26

France has pledged to give $1.3m to help the poorest of the hundreds of thousands of people in southern Somalia forced from their homes by war and famine.

13 000 flee Myanmar, Bangladesh: UN

2013-01-04 18:06

About 13,000 boat people, including many stateless Rohingya Muslims, have fled Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh in 2012 with hundreds dying during the perilous sea voyage, says the UN.

Kenya orders refugees back to camps

2012-12-18 12:12

Tens of thousands of refugees living in urban areas in Kenya must return to remote and overcrowded camps, the government says, demanding all aid be cut off outside the camps.

Australia refugee camp 'appalling': Amnesty

2012-11-23 10:02

The camp set up by Australia to house asylum-seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru is "appalling" and likely in breach of its obligations to refugees, says rights group Amnesty.

Australians reach out to boatpeople

2012-09-17 13:11

Australians are opening their homes to boatpeople in a homestay programme that sees families temporarily house those seeking asylum while their claims are processed.

Australia to send boatpeople offshore

2012-08-17 12:18

Australia's parliament has passed a law allowing it to transfer asylum-seekers arriving by boat to other countries, despite objections that refugees could be held indefinitely in camps.

Asylum seekers 'force' ship's diversion

2012-08-16 11:00

The captain of a merchant ship bound for Singapore changed course for Australia for fear that desperate asylum seekers he had rescued in Indonesian waters would attack his crew, says an official.

Australia fears for missing asylum seekers

2012-08-14 12:10

Sixty-seven asylum seekers have been reported missing after they said they were leaving Indonesia in a rickety boat bound for Australia more than a month ago, says an official.

Australia 'locked up' Indonesian children

2012-07-27 10:02

Australia breached the rights of Indonesian children it jailed as adults after they came as crew on people-smuggling boats and should apologise, says the nation's human rights chief.

6 wounded in Kenya refugee camp blast

2012-07-25 17:15

Six people have been wounded after an explosive device went off at the Dadaab refugee camp in north eastern Kenya, the Kenya Red Cross says.

Kenya's Dadaab faces funding crisis

2012-07-12 10:41

Aid agencies have warned that a critical shortage of funds is threatening lives in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp complex, risking worsening an already volatile security situation.

Another boat 'in distress' in Australia

2012-07-11 09:04

Australian authorities have responded to a distress call from a second asylum-seeker boat in as many days as the opposition's leader says he will turn them back if elected prime minister.

Zanzibar refugees return from Somalia

2012-07-06 18:01

Refugees from the palm-fringed spice islands of Zanzibar stranded in the war-torn Somali capital Mogadishu are preparing to fly home, more than a decade after fleeing political violence.

Australia ship at scene of distressed boat

2012-07-04 08:01

An Australian navy ship is standing ready help a boat carrying up to 180 people, presumed to be asylum seekers, authorities say, the third boat to send distress signals in three weeks.

Australia asylum-seeker bill defeated

2012-06-28 12:01

The Australian Senate on Thursday rejected a bill to send boatpeople offshore for processing, leaving the divisive issue of asylum-seekers at a stalemate following a spate of deadly incidents.

123 rescued from sunk asylum-seeker boat

2012-06-27 10:02

Around 123 people have been rescued from an asylum-seeker boat that sank en route to Australia, says Prime Minister Julia Gillard, adding that there were between 123 to 133 on board.

Australia refugee boat disaster sparks row

2012-06-26 10:03

Hopes of a compromise to break the deadlock in Australia on its boatpeople policy have faded with politicians trading insults after the latest tragedy left up to 90 people dead.

80 missing after refugee boat capsizes

2012-06-22 14:22

Fears are growing that the death toll from a refugee boat disaster off Australia's Christmas Island could soar, with as many as 80 still unaccounted for.

Australia boat capsize: Scores feared dead

2012-06-21 12:46

Australian police say early reports suggest up to 75 asylum seekers have died after their boat capsized off remote Christmas Island en route from Sri Lanka.

Refugees march to Parliament

2012-06-20 18:54

About 100 refugees and activists have marched to Parliament against the imminent closure of the Maitland refugee reception office.

Refugees demand reopening of centres

2012-06-19 19:15

About 200 refugees have marched to the Marabastad refugee reception offices in Pretoria, demanding that closed refugee centres be reopened.

Refugees protest in Pretoria

2012-06-13 12:43

About 1 000 refugees protested at the Tshwane interim refugee reception office in Pretoria, with some burning tyres.

South Sudan aid agencies swamped

2012-06-12 22:26

Aid agencies in South Sudan are being swamped by tens of thousands of refugees who are pouring into the country from the north in increasingly bad shape, the United Nations says.

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