Iceland’s Directorate of Immigration, Útlendingastofnun, said it received 331 asylum applications from Nigerians since 2020.

The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, speaks with ADEBAYO FOLORUNSHO-FRANCIS about his encounter with the military junta and other circumstances that forced him into exile after the June 12, 1993 ...

Learn about UNHCR’s work in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region, including refugee and displacement data, programme plans, funding needs and our impact.

By the end of 2024 a quarter of the population was displaced, including 6.1 million Syrian refugees and asylum-seekers and 7.4 million IDPs. The fall of the Assad government on 8 December generated ...