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          Refugees

          The latest news and stories on refugees and asylum seekers

          Highly skilled and willing to work for lower wages, Syrians refugees in Hordan are pushing Jordanians out of the workforce. Above, a Syrian refugee camp in Mrejeeb Al Fuhoud in Jordan. Salah Malkawi for The National

          Jordan can no longer afford its humanitarian generosity

          OpinionMay 25, 2015
          A UNHCR worker prepares Yemen relief items for transport at Humanitarian City in Dubai. Jeffrey E Biteng / The National

          Dh6.6 million of aid to be shipped from Dubai to Yemen in latest effort

          UAEMay 25, 2015

          Sheikha Jawaher of Sharjah urges more help for Syrian refugees

          GovernmentMay 24, 2015
          A Yemeni boy in the Markazi refugee camp near Obock, Djibouti. The camp and a nearby unfinished orphanage are home to about 1,000 Yemeni refugees. The camp still lacks basic services like schools and playgrounds for children. Maan Y Ahmed for The National

          Yemenis struggle in impoverished Djibouti after fleeing war

          WorldMay 23, 2015

          Global Talk: Fleeing Yemenis seek shelter in Djibouti -EP 22

          WorldMay 23, 2015
          A Bangladeshi refugee is attended to after surviving a boat journey to Kuala Langsa Port in Indonesia. (Binsar Bakkara / AP)

          Refugee crises demand a global solution

          OpinionMay 18, 2015

          Thousands of migrants feared adrift at sea as South East Asia urged to do more

          AsiaMay 12, 2015
          Migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh at a police station in Kuah, Langkawi in Malaysia on May 2015. More than 1,000 refugees landed in three boats on Malyasia’s northern resort island of Langkawi overnight and were detained by Malaysian authorities. EPA

          1,600 refugees arrive in Malaysia, Indonesia after Thai crackdown

          AsiaMay 11, 2015

          Syrian regime allows citizens abroad to renew passports

          WorldApril 26, 2015
          Lebanon is another victim of Bashar Al Assad's failure to stop the long-lasting civil war in Syria. Behrouz Mehri / AFP

          Today, crisis-torn Lebanon faces another confusing anniversary

          OpinionApril 25, 2015
          In this February 28, 2015 photo, West African migrants walk on train tracks on their way towards the border with Macedonia near the town of Evzonoi, Greece. Dalton Bennett/AP Photo

          Migrants exploited every step of the way on Balkans route to Europe

          WorldApril 22, 2015

          Over 90,000 flee fighting in Iraq’s Anbar: UN

          WorldApril 19, 2015
          A local man gestures with a stick outside a hostel during the anti-immigrant violence in Johannesburg on April 17, 2015. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

          30 detained as xenophobic attacks continue in South Africa

          WorldApril 18, 2015
          Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters pose for a photograph in central Ramadi, 115 kilometres west of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 16, 2015. AP Photo

          More than 2,000 families flee Iraqi city of Ramadi as ISIL advances

          WorldApril 16, 2015
          Bernardino Leon, special representative and head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, holds a press conference on April 15, 2015 in the Morrocan city of Skirate, ahead of a new round of peace talks on the Libyan conflict. Fadel Senna/AFP Photo

          UN presses Libya peace talks under shadow of drownings

          WorldApril 16, 2015
          Sent to the land that was never theirs: Afghan refugees in Pakistan

          Sent to the land that was never theirs: Afghan refugees in Pakistan

          WorldApril 11, 2015
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