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Takeaways of AP investigation into a missing boat of 180 Rohingya refugees

On December 1, a boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees set out from Bangladesh, bound for Indonesia

The Independent UK

Overcoming statelessness in Thailand

There are about 500,000 stateless people in Thailand, of whom over 100,000 are children. Recently, various national agencies, supported by UNHCR and Unicef, hosted a national consultation on statelessness. It was a timely opportunity to identify preferred directions.

Bangkok Post

Sudanese forces clash in Khartoum after talks break down

Sudan's warring parties fought in the capital on Friday after the collapse of talks to maintain a ceasefire and ease a humanitarian crisis.

Reuters

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More than 100,000 flee to Chad from Sudan conflict, UNHCR says

More than 100,000 people have fled violence in Sudan to neighbouring Chad and the numbers could double in the next three months, the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday.

Reuters

Catalogue of failings in Home Office’s ‘flawed’ asylum system revealed in UN report

UN Refugee Agency uncovers cases in which trafficking victims were missed and a child victim of sexual abuse was given no support

The Independent UK

Failed attempts to deport small boat migrants causing ‘costly limbo’, damning report finds

Only 23 asylum seekers deported under policy that has so far delayed over 27,000 claims, official figures show

The Independent UK

UN refugee agency calls for reform of UK’s ‘flawed’ asylum system

Vicky Tennant, the UNHCR’s representative to the United Kingdom, said vulnerable people were being placed at risk.

The Independent UK

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Ceasefire ends in Sudan with fresh fighting and no route for aid

With a humanitarian ceasefire set to expire on Monday evening, fighting had already resumed in Sudan. International agencies are still struggling to deliver aid despite the week-long truce.

Radio France Internationale

U.N. warns more than one million may flee Sudan bloodshed

Estimates that about a million people might flee Sudan by October may be conservative and conflict there risks increasing people trafficking and spreading weapons across a fragile region, the head of the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday.

Reuters

Only ‘handful’ of Afghans refugees brought to UK under flagship scheme

War veterans among those being driven to take risky journeys because schemes ‘not fit for purpose’

The Independent UK

Hundreds of refugees in Malawi rounded up and sent to camps

Army brought in to forcibly relocate refugees from the capital, despite pleas from human rights organisations

The Guardian - UK

Eritrean refugees caught between crisis at home, Sudan conflict

Some Eritreans are reportedly missing in Sudan, raising fears of kidnappings by Eritrean authorities or traffickers.

Al Jazeera

Red Cross warns of possible humanitarian disaster on Sudan-Chad border

Sudanese refugees are streaming into Chad so quickly that it will be impossible to relocate them all to safer places before the start of the rainy season in late June, a senior Red Cross official said on Tuesday, flagging the risk of a disaster.

Reuters

Over 60,000 have fled to Chad from Sudan since conflict started -UNHCR

Between 60,000 and 90,000 people have fled from Sudan to neighbouring Chad since violence erupted last month, the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday.

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USAID chief says committed to helping Sudanese refugees

Al Jazeera spoke with USAID chief who announced $100m for Sudan and countries hosting displaced Sudanese refugees.

The Guardian - UK

UN not given access to Rohingya refugee camps after Cyclone Mocha

UNHCR says it’s awaiting permission from Myanmar government to distribute health supplies in Sittwe, where an estimated 90% of Rohingya homes have been destroyed

Reuters

More than 1 million people displaced by Sudan crisis - UN refugee agency

More than a million people have been displaced by fighting in Sudan so far, including a quarter of a million refugees, a U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokesperson said on Friday.

Al Jazeera

Syrian refugees in fear as Lebanon steps up deportations

An increase in raids by the Lebanese Armed Forces has left Syrian refugees in hiding, worried about being forced back.

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Reuters

Aid groups seek green light from Myanmar junta to access cyclone-hit state

Relief organisations were awaiting clearance from Myanmar's military rulers on Wednesday to access areas of Rakhine State devastated by a deadly cyclone three days ago, and deliver food and medicine to communities in urgent need.

Reuters

UN refugee agency: 200,000 have fled Sudan

Some 200,000 people have fled from Sudan to neighbouring countries since violence erupted last month, a spokesperson for the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday, including many malnourished children arriving in Chad.

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UN refugee agency criticises mass arrivals crackdown

'Freedom from arbitrary detention is a fundamental human right,' the United Nations refugee agency says of NZ's plans to increase the maximum period of warrantless detention for asylum seekers.

The Conversation

Sudan refugee crisis: aid agencies face huge challenges as hundreds of thousands flee violence

Sudan stands on the brink of yet another civil war sparked by a confrontation between two generals: the head of Sudan’s Armed Forces, General Abdelfatah El-Burhan, and the head of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

Reuters

Factbox-How big is the aid crisis caused by the Sudan fighting?

Aid workers say fighting between rival military factions in Sudan is pushing poorly-funded humanitarian programmes in the region to a breaking point.

Reuters

Sudan deepens crisis in Africa as UN sees 5 million more needing aid

When a power struggle between Sudan's rival military leaders shattered a tenuous peace in her village in Sudan's western region of Darfur, Halime Yacoub Issac's first instinct was to take her five children and run.

Reuters

Unhappy return: Sudan crisis forces South Sudanese refugees back to troubled home

The last place Lina Mijok wanted to go as she fled fighting in Sudan was back to her own country, South Sudan, which she had left as civil war erupted in 2013.

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