The Latest Breaking News from Refugee

Trump destroyed USAID. What happens now?

State Department records show that aid cuts have led to violence and instability around the world

Salon · May 29, 2025

Cyprus offers Syrians resettlement money to return home, migration minister says

Syrian nationals make up the largest group of asylum-seekers on the island.

Euronews · May 29, 2025

US aid cuts leave humanitarian sector in crisis, warns lead aid organisation

US cuts to humanitarian aid created a critical funding gap, threatening the ability of organisations like the Danish Refugee Council to support millions in need. Charlotte Slente, the Council’s Secretary General, warns the global humanitarian and development response is at serious risk.

Euronews · May 28, 2025

DHS Claims Migrants Are Using US Asylum System Like a 'Get-Out-of-Deportation-Free Card'

The Trump administration made the comment while working to deny asylum to a Guatemalan man who survived two homophobic attacks in his home country.

Latin Times · May 25, 2025

‘They first come for great acts of culture’: Cate Blanchett sets up grant for displaced film-makers

Actor and UN refugee ambassador delivers warning on authoritarian regimes as first five film-makers announced for funding

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2025

Lebanon launches process to disarm Palestinian factions in refugee camps

Process begins after visit by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who said weapons ‘hurt’ Lebanon and Palestine cause.

Al Jazeera · May 23, 2025

‘We don’t get to discriminate’: How a Raleigh ministry decided to help resettle Afrikaners

Marc Wyatt, director of Welcome House Raleigh, a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, received a call recently from the North Carolina field office of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants asking if he could help furnish two apartments for three newly arrived refugees, among the…

The Independent UK · May 23, 2025

Lebanon starts process to disarm Palestinian factions in refugee camps

A group tasked with making a plan to remove weapons held by Palestinian factions in Lebanon’s refugees camps is beginning to hash out a timetable and mechanism for disarming the groups

The Independent UK · May 23, 2025

Will the United States deport people to Rwanda?

Kigali in talks to house migrant deportees from US, but rights groups worry such deals further endanger the vulnerable.

Al Jazeera · May 23, 2025

‘I don’t want to be here. But we can’t go home’: what life is like for people forced to flee floods and fighting

Around the globe, conflict and the climate crisis have caused 83.4m people – a record number – to become refugees within their own countries. Three people from Bangladesh, Sudan and Colombia tell their stories

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2025