World Food Programme To Launch 4-Month Food Voucher Text Message Pilot Program For Iraqi RefugeesThe World Food Programme (WFP) Tuesday announced that it is launching a pilot program to send food vouchers via mobile phone text messages to Iraqi refugees in Syria,reports (10/27). This program is "the first of its kind in the world to use mobile phone technology," according to a"For two years, WFP has...
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The Nakivale refugee camp, pictured here in May, is reportedly experiencing some food shortages.-- Refugees at a settlement in southwestern Uganda have barricaded all roads into the camp to protest a food-aid disruption they say has caused the deaths of several children, refugee leaders said Tuesday."We have spent three months without any food supplies from government nor from any food relief or humanitarian...
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DINDIGUL: Basic amenities like drinking water, drainage and toilet facilities, power supply and proper housing instead of temporary thatched dwelling units were some of the major demands conveyed by the Sri Lankan refugees to the Minister for Revenue I. Periasamy who visited the refugee camps in the district on Wednesday.While interacting with the Minister, refugees showed their huts in a dilapidated...
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old saga with new actors. Boat people are again on the move. While the boats have been taking to the sea and the seas have been taking the boats for quite a while, the plight of boat people is once again grabbing world headlines.Indonesia’s navy recently intercepted, at the behest of Australia, a boat carrying 260 Sri Lankans bound for Australia.In another corner of the world, 76 Sri Lankans made it...
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Tamil Nadu government has decided to spend around Rupees 12 crore to improve the amenities in the 115 refugee camps that house Sri Lankan Tamils in the state.It was decided at a high-level meeting convened by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi here Monday, it was decided that various ministers will visit the camps and submit their reports by Nov 10.Based on their recommendations, the mode of spending the...
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Erode,Nov 4: As part of hearing grievances of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees and examining the conditions, Tamil Nadu government officials visited three camps in Erode district.Erode District Collector R Sudalaikannan visited the Arachalure and Eanchampalli camps which houses 625 and 300 Tamil refugees respectively and enquired about their problems, yesterday.In Bhavanisagar, Mayakrishnan, District Revenue...
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Iraqi refugee Mazen Alsaqa in Massachusetts in February.Alsaqa didn't dislike Massachusetts, but he never thought about staying. The only place he wanted to live was the Detroit area, where he's closer to relatives.Tens of thousands have fled Michigan's troubled economy in recent years. But Iraqi refugees continue to move there despite a U.S. government policy trying to limit refugee resettlement in...
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Damascus, Nov 12 : The United Arab Emirates (UAE) would fund a project for the development of the Neirab Palestinian refugee Camp in the Syrian city of Aleppo, WAM news agency reported Thursday.The project, funded by UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) includes removing the 60 years old dilapidated portions of the camp to improve the living conditions of Palestinian refugees.The Red Crescent Authority...
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Mizoram government has decided to welcome back the Bru refugees lodged at six relief camps in north Tripura, who had fled their home state following an ethnic conflict in the western part of Mizoram in 1997.''The Bru refugees can now return to Mizoram by mid-November,'' home secretary Lalmalsawma said, who led a meeting on the Bru repratriation here yesterday.A tripartite meeting between the state...
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Adi Dravidar Welfare A. Tamilarasi noting down the needs of inmates at Anaiyur refugee camp. Collector N. Mathivanan is seen.MADURAI: A large number of refugees, led by women and old people, complained about poor living conditions at the refugee camps of the district and urged the government to extend the Chief Minister’s insurance scheme to them also, when Adi Dravidar Welfare Minister A. Tamilarasi...
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