Life for Relief and Development in partnership with Zakat Foundation implemented a project to provide emergency humanitarian aid to Syrian refugee families living in camps in Al-Mafraq and Al-Ramtha which are located near the Syrian-Jordanian borders. Life Jordan staff made a survey of the Syrian refugees and determined that 570 families were in urgent need
On Sunday, 33 unaccompanied children departed from Tunisia’s Shousha refugee camp to Norway as part of their resettlement process. The children were among 90 who arrived unaccompanied from Libya during 2011. Some were already without parents when they first arrived in Libya; others lost their parents or became separated from them subsequently. Most are from
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Wife HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein have been blessed with a baby boy. The International Humanitarian City and its team would like to extend their warmest congratulations to the Royal Family, the Government
UNHCR is alarmed by a string of recent security incidents targeting the Dadaab refugee complex in northern Kenya. Dadaab is the world’s largest refugee settlement and shelters more than 460,000 people. An explosion on Monday at the Hagadera camp killed one person and seriously injured two police officers. Another improvised explosive device went off on
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Abu-Dhabi, in cooperation with the International Humanitarian City in Dubai, held a press briefing session to update the media on the humanitarian situation in Somalia. The media session was conducted by Bruno Geddo, UNHCR Representative in Somalia, who spoke about the ongoing famine
UN agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations in Yemen sound the alarm as the crisis in Yemen has spread from people directly affected by conflict to millions of ordinary Yemenis across the country, particularly women and children. Children are growing up in an environment where rates of malnutrition are comparable to those in Somalia and where one
The International Humanitarian City (IHC), chaired by HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, celebrated the UAE’s 40th National Day in an exceptional ceremony that reflected the Nation’s true heritage and traditions. The ceremony was opened