More than 100 refugee athletes took part on Tuesday in athletics, judo and taekwondo selection trials at the Lornah Kiplagat ...

The World Bank’s latest policy note explores how Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) can be strengthened in conflict-prone areas ...

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) suspended its US-funded humanitarian work due to President Donald Trump's executive order to 're-evaluate' foreign aid on Tuesday. Providing essential aid to over ...

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Monday it would suspend humanitarian work in nearly 20 countries worldwide after ...

Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes Ghana's decision to grant prima facie refugee status to forcibly displaced Burkinabe asylum seekers. This significant move immediately benefits thousands of ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

Burkina Faso is leaving the West African regional bloc ECOWAS to join counterterrorism forces with Niger and Mali. The junta ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannah in the south. It is characterised by ...

The three junta-led West African nations withdrawal is the culmination of a yearlong process during which the grouping tried to avert its unprecedented disintegration.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has told its member states to recognise the international passports of citizens of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, despite the countries' exit ...

Since 2016, there have been more than 230 terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, which threatens to destabilize the landlocked West African nation. In the north of the country, al-Qaeda in the Islamic ...