Dozens of Rohingya refugees flee Malaysian immigration detention centre | Rohingya News

Dozens of Rohingya refugees flee Malaysian immigration detention centre | Rohingya News

Police blame riot after 115 Rohingya and 16 other people from Myanmar escaped the facility on Thursday night. Malaysia is searching for dozens of Rohingya refugees and other people from Myanmar after they escaped from a temporary immigration detention centre in the country’s north. One man was killed after 131…

UNHCR: 569 Rohingya died at sea in 2023, highest in nine years | Rohingya News

UNHCR: 569 Rohingya died at sea in 2023, highest in nine years | Rohingya News

People from the mostly Muslim Myanmar minority continue to make perilous journeys across the sea in search of safety. Some 569 Rohingya people died or went missing at sea last year – the most since 2014 – as they embarked on dangerous boat journeys to Southeast Asia, according to the…

UK’s upper house votes to delay plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda | Refugees News

UK’s upper house votes to delay plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda | Refugees News

House of Lords defies Rishi Sunak by voting to delay ratification of treaty with Kigali. The United Kingdom’s upper house of parliament has voted to delay Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s controversial plan to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda. The vote by the unelected House of Lords on Monday came…

IOM makes ‘global appeal’ for .9bn to help 140 million people | Migration News

IOM makes ‘global appeal’ for $7.9bn to help 140 million people | Migration News

The appeal comes as the number of people forced to migrate reached 117 million by the end of 2022, the IOM said. The United Nations migration agency has launched its first “global appeal”, aiming to drum up $7.9bn to help those forced to leave their homes due to everything from…

Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the far-right | The Far Right News

Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the far-right | The Far Right News

Public outcry followed revelations that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party had discussed plans to mass deport immigrants. Tens of thousands of people have gathered across Germany to protest against a far-right political party and its stance against migrants. People protested in several cities and small towns on Saturday,…

Stateless babies: In northeast India, refugee mothers pray for nationhood | Refugees News

Stateless babies: In northeast India, refugee mothers pray for nationhood | Refugees News

Mizoram, India – “Why are you screaming? You are a refugee,” a nurse told 26-year-old Jamie* as she struggled with an exceptionally painful childbirth at a hospital in India’s northeastern state of Mizoram. A few hours later, amid her agony, Jamie’s baby Sophia was born – joining a growing group…

‘They ordered me to undress’: From Nigeria to Italy, surviving rape | Refugees

‘They ordered me to undress’: From Nigeria to Italy, surviving rape | Refugees

Twenty-five-year-old Naomi Iwelu is now settled, living in a room in the centre of Catania, Sicily. Here she recounts the robberies, betrayals and rape she experienced on her journey from Benin, Nigeria. It was her mother’s death, four years after her father’s, that prompted Naomi to quit school and leave…

‘You either quit or abide’: A Liberian rapper refugee surviving on music | Refugees

‘You either quit or abide’: A Liberian rapper refugee surviving on music | Refugees

Theophylline Mulbah has had a long journey to Tunisia, but he’s found hope — and music — along the way. Theophylline Mulbah is in no rush. “I have things to do here,” he says from a rain-soaked alleyway in central Tunis. “I am seriously pursuing my musical career. I am…

‘I just sit and hope’: A Sierra Leonean mother’s refugee story | Refugees

‘I just sit and hope’: A Sierra Leonean mother’s refugee story | Refugees

An Al Jazeera series: Leaving two children behind, a pregnant Sierra Leonean mother pins her hopes on crossing to Europe. Tunis, Tunisia — Standing in the drizzle outside the Tunis office of the International Organization for Migration, Saffiatu Mansaray is staring down at her swollen stomach. On the other side…

‘Many more could die’: Urgent plea for Rohingya refugees trapped at sea | Rohingya News

‘Many more could die’: Urgent plea for Rohingya refugees trapped at sea | Rohingya News

At least one passenger on a boat carrying 185 refugees has died, with dozens more in ‘critical condition’, warns UNHCR. Fears are growing for scores of Rohingya refugees believed to be stranded at sea in the Indian Ocean, after a boat they set off in from Bangladesh saw its engine…