World News Watch: People seen leaving university campus after Charlie Kirk shooting at Utah Valley University
World News Watch: People seen leaving university campus after Charlie Kirk shooting at Utah Valley University
South Africa Zuma tries to reassure migrants after xenophobic attacks Foreigners in South Africa queue up in a makeshift camp to leave the country and escape the wave of anti-immigration violence. Saturday saw tightened 19/04/2015
Syria UN calls for safe passage for Yarmouk refugees UN officials have visited the Syrian capital Damascus to call for people who want to leave the Yarmouk refugee camp on the city’s fringes, to be 12/04/2015
Kenya UNHCR mulls Kenya's call to close Dadaab camp for Somali refugees The United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Saturday it had not received a formal request from Kenya to remove a huge refugee camp housing 12/04/2015
My Europe Series Migrant crisis: Flaws in EU policy This week on Utalk, many of you have commented on our latest edition of Reporter, which focused on the dramatic situation of migrants in Calais, in 10/04/2015
My Europe Series Europe faces renewed calls to ease Syrian refugee mega-crisis Europe must do more to help Syrians escape the country’s brutal civil war, says the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In an interview 09/04/2015
Syria Syria: UN calls for aid access to besieged Yarmouk refugee camp The UN Security Council says crimes against Palestinian refugees in Syria’s besieged Yarmouk camp must not go unpunished. The UN is also calling for 07/04/2015
Syria Palestinians put pressure on Damascus over Yarmouk crisis The desperate plight of Palestinians trapped amid fighting in Syria prompted dozens of people to demonstrate outside the UN headquarters in Gaza. One 06/04/2015
Syria Palestinians mobilise to save Yarmouk refugees after ISIL attack A video posted online on Sunday purported to show militants from the self-proclaimed Islamic State advancing into the mostly Palestinian refugee camp 05/04/2015
Syria Syria: Civilians in 'acute danger' at Yarmouk refugee camp, warns UN The United Nations is sounding the alarm over the “desperate” plight of civilians trapped amid fierce fighting in the largely Palestinian Yarmouk 05/04/2015
Germany Germany: Arson suspected after fire at asylum seekers' residence Police are probing a suspected arson attack on a building intended for asylum seekers in eastern Germany. Two Germans – currently the only people 04/04/2015
Syria Palestinian refugees outside Syrian capital 'at extreme risk of death' The jihadist Islamic State offensive has been closing in on the Syrian capital, Damascus. Conflicting reports say Palestinian fighters and Syrian 02/04/2015
Syria Syria: ISIL militants seize parts of Palestinian camp ISIL militants have reportedly taken control of large parts of a Palestinian camp in the Syrian capital. Video uploaded to the internet purportedly 01/04/2015
Chad Nigerian refugees bear terror trauma from Boko Haram Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) has deployed an emergency team to Chad. The NGO is helping an estimated 18,300 refugees and 01/04/2015
Yemen Saudi Arabia "seeking clarification" about deadly explosion in Yemen camp Saudi Arabia says it is seeking clarification about an explosion that has killed at least 40 people in a camp for displaced people in Yemen 31/03/2015
My Europe Series Libya on the brink: amid civil war fears and growing ISIL threat what's the EU doing? 19/03/2015
Syria Nothing to celebrate as the Syrian Conflict hits the four-year mark The conflict in Syria is four years old today, four years during which the country has been ripped apart as the conflict has changed and become more 15/03/2015
Syria Syria four years on, Erdogan slams UN Security Council's inaction As the war drags into a fifth year accusations are flying about who is to blame for the lack of action to end the bloodshed. 14/03/2015
Cinema Tale of two Angolan refugees' survival in 1980's Lisbon Angolan film-maker Pocas Pascoal sought inspiration in her personal life for ‘All is Well’, a moving drama about two sisters in exile. Alda and 13/03/2015