In the French city of Rennes, a group of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are training to work in restaurants. Most of them have never even held a kitchen knife before they started this program, but they are full of motivation about the opportunity.
UN refugee agency UNHCR is recommending the cessation of refugee status for Ivorian refugees by June 2022. The agency says that "fundamental and durable changes" in Cote d'Ivoire have made living there much safer.
Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was born in Tanzania, has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee."
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR has launched a kit to support education about refugees in Italian schools. The initiative was launched to mark World Teachers' Day on October 5.
The Pakistani authorities and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) are working to verify and update the identity cards of more than 1.4 million registered Afghan refugees in the country. The last time such a drive took place was 10 years ago.
A plane carrying 184 Afghan civilians landed at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport, near Paris, on Wednesday. A further 180 Afghans touched down on Thursday evening. Didier Leschi, director general of the French Office of Immigration and Integration (OFII), explains to InfoMigrants how these emergency evacuations are organized and what will happen to these refugees now.
The UN refugee agency has called for a stop to deportations to Afghanistan. It has also asked neighboring countries to keep their borders open and to welcome new Afghan refugees.
After the Taliban's takeover, there is an urgent need to find shelter for Afghans airlifted out. Albania has been negotiating with the US on accommodating people who have fled in Tirana. Details are slowly emerging.
As the Taliban swept into Kabul, Germany scrambled to evacuate its citizens. But Afghans who had long worked for its forces had to wait for a call to safety, then brave the dangerous route to the airport. DW reports.
The foreign minister of Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn, has urged the European Union to accept quotas of refugees from Afghanistan. But some EU countries, including Austria, say Afghans fleeing the Taliban takeover should not be offered protection in Europe.
Afghans who fled Kabul in the past few days have been left horrified by the situation back home. People feel betrayed both by the Afghan army and NATO forces.
Germany and the Netherlands reversed course and decided to allow failed Afghan asylum seekers to stay temporarily amid the growing conflict in Afghanistan.