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On 13 September 2015, asylum-seekers, most of them from the Syrian Arab Republic, on a large raft arrive on the shores of the island of Lesbos, in the North Aegean region.
UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi

Spain’s decision to take in stranded boat welcomed by UN Refugee Agency

11 June 2018
Interviews

Spain’s reported announcement that it will allow a boat to dock carrying hundreds of migrants and refugees that was originally turned away from Italy is a “generous display of solidarity”, the UN Refugee Agency said on Monday.   UNHCR spokesperson Charlie Yaxley spoke with Daniel Johnson.

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Fighting in South Sudan’s Greater Upper Nile region has remained intense and civilians have fled their homes in areas around Wau Chollo (Shilluk) district to the UNMISS protection site in Malakal.
UNMISS

Thousands of stranded South Sudanese receiving assistance

26 August 2015
General News

Tens of thousands of people in South Sudan who had been stranded for months due to insecurity have finally been reached by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP).

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