Situation Update #refugees
Storified by Refugee Aid Serbia · Sun, Jan 10 2016 07:23:50
Concert to greet Syrian refugees - National - NZ Herald News
Refugees arriving in New Zealand from war-torn Syria will be welcomed by some of the country's best-loved artists at a free Auckland concert. - New Zealand Herald
Despair and disease for refugees in Dunkirk
On the edge of northern France's Grande-Synthe refugee camp, a white van comes to an abrupt halt and three female volunteers leap out clutching tarpaulin sheets. They run into the woods surrounding the camp to avoid detection by the French police and Gendarmerie, a branch of the French armed forces.
After Cologne, Slovakian PM Fico seeks emergency EU summit | News | DW.COM | 08.01.2016
Fico said on Friday that the EU must move faster to strengthen the bloc's borders in the wake of reports of mass sexual assaults possibly carried out by asylum-seekers on New Year's Eve in Cologne and other European cities.
Turkey imposes visa regime on Syrians arriving from third countries | News | DW.COM | 08.01.2016
The government in Ankara introduced visa restrictions on Friday for Syrians entering Turkey by air or sea in order to stem the flow of migrants from the war-torn country. The Turkish Foreign Ministry said the new rules were aimed at reducing the numbers of Syrians arriving indirectly from third countries like Lebanon or Egypt.
Lebanon: Forcible return of more than 100 refugees to Syria a shocking setback
More than 100 Syrian refugees have been forcibly returned to Syria by the Lebanese authorities today, Amnesty International has learned. Around 150 others are still stranded at Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport and are at risk of imminent deportation in the coming hours.
The forgotten pocket of Syria's refugee crisis
Ramtha, Jordan - In the chilly afternoon, children play among a row of makeshift tents, their wooden frames covered with plastic, cardboard and old rugs. Five-year-old Randa curls up next to an unlit stove near her family's tent. "I don't like it," she cries. "It is too cold."
Iraq's Yazidis: Horrors of the past refuse to go away
It's been two months since Kurdish fighters recaptured the town of Sinjar from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). But for the ethnic Yazidis driven out in 2014, the possibility of returning home is a grim prospect. Al Jazeera's Mohammed Jamjoom reports from a Yazidi camp in Dohuk, northern Iraq.
South Sudan's peace deal is a 'result of external pressure' | Africa | DW.COM | 08.01.2016
Riek Machar will return to Juba to take up the position of vice president, a post from which he was sacked in 2013. That is what was agreed in the power-sharing deal on Friday (08.01.2016). Machar however still has to travel to the capital to take up his position.