| In Kenyan refugee camp, hope fades and suicide rate rises. Aid workers say the mood is deteriorating at Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya, as prospects for resettlement wane. Nine refugees have committed suicide at the camp since early 2017, compared to three in 2016, and the applications of more than 14,400 refugees from Somalia alone are now on hold. The camp is a temporary home for 185,000 refugees from Somalia, South Sudan and other states hit by war in East and Central Africa. | | |
| Aid rushed to trapped civilians in Syria. With over 130,000 people estimated to have fled the Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta in the last month, UNHCR is rushing to deliver core relief items, shelter support and protection services to nearly a quarter of a million people who urgently need aid. More than 60,000 people have been reached so far, and the agency is also providing legal counselling to 22,000 people. Of particular concern is the situation in Douma in Eastern Ghouta, where tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped. | | |
| Rohingya seek loved ones as hope fades. Some seven months after violence in Rohingya villages forced nearly 700,000 people to flee to Bangladesh, tens of thousands remain missing or unaccounted for. A study by ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights notes that more than 43,000 refugee children in Bangladesh's sprawling settlements were reported to have lost at least one parent. Others have lost siblings, cousins and even children of their own. | | |
| Refugee camp in Sudan to close as Chadians return home. A camp that once hosted over 8,000 refugees in Sudan is set to close , as the last residents there voluntarily return to their home areas in neighbouring Chad. Mukjar camp in Central Darfur has hosted Chadian refugees for over a decade. Its closure comes as UNHCR and Sudan’s Commissioner of Refugees help the last refugees return to their home country. “Throughout the time I lived in this refugee camp, I had never lost hope that one day I will be able to return home,” said Eissa Abakar, who spent 12 years in the camp before returning home with his family. | | |
| Afghans refugees in Indonesia in a precarious situation. More than 150 Afghan refugees, mostly ethnic Hazara, are detained in Balikpapan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo. For the past 80 days, they have been protesting the conditions of their detention, Al Jazeera reports. They have been under increasing pressure to return to Afghanistan, where 46 refugees have already returned after a deal with the Australian government to provide them with US$2,000. But some are wary of the offer. "None of us can take this any longer, of course," one refugee told Al-Jazeera. “But we can't go back either. We have escaped. They can't send us back to the war zone.” | | |
| Last year, Geisha Williams made history by becoming the first Latina CEO of a Fortune 500 company. A former refugee from Cuba, she was appointed president and CEO of Californian energy firm PG&E. Williams says all migrants deserve the same opportunities that she had. | | |
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