U.N. refugee agency seeks $261 million
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The U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday called for $261 million this year to help hundreds of thousands of Iraqis driven from their homes by violence.
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Refugees fleeing the Darfur region of Sudan have described conditions that amount to a campaign of genocide by the Sudanese government, US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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Conditions are worsening for refugees in Darfur, UN agencies have said, as the Sudanese government and rebels struggle to make headway in talks aiming to ease the conflict in the Darfur region.
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The UN appeals for $98m (Â£50.26m) to help Haiti recover from years of turmoil and meet humanitarian needs.
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Uganda announces a $330m (Â£173m) plan to help almost 2m people displaced in its 20-year northern conflict.
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Sudan has asked the United Nations to help verify reports that 190,000 refugees from the conflict-hit western Darfur region have voluntarily returned to their homes, the UN refugee agency chief said on Tuesday.
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Conditions are worsening for refugees  in Darfur, U.N. agencies said on Tuesday, as the Sudanese  government and rebels struggled to make headway in talks aiming  to ease the conflict in the Darfur region.
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The United Nations has allocated $2.35 million from an emergency fund to provide humanitarian aid to Guinea, which is in the midst of a tense nationwide strike, a U.N. spokesperson said Friday.
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The death toll in Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur region could rise six-fold by the end of the year &#151; hitting 300,000 &#151; because of worsening food shortages among refugees, a senior U.S. aid official said Monday.
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The U.N. refugee agency appealed Thursday to the European Union to do more to protect refugees fleeing Iraq, saying the war was the cause of the biggest displacement of people in the Middle East in recent history.
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Conflicts have cost Africa $300bn over 15 years, equivalent to aid received in that period, a report says.
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The United Nations said that it had secured concrete aid of 717 million dollars toward its emergency relief appeal for the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, and urged donor countries to speed up delivery of further aid promises.
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The top U.S. envoy on refugees announced Tuesday that the United States will increase its support to countries hosting Iraqi refugees with a $30 million grant for education.
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Sudan has asked the United Nations to help verify reports that 190,000 refugees from the conflict-hit western Darfur region have voluntarily returned to their homes, the U.N. refugee agency chief said on Tuesday.
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The U.N. refugee agency is  alerting more than 33,000 vulnerable Iraqi refugees in Damascus  through text messages on cell phones, which many of them use to  keep in touch with family and friends.
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Up to 30,000 refugees fleeing conflicts  in Chad and the Central African Republic have crossed into east  Cameroon prompting the United Nations Refugee Agency to open an  office there to help them, a UNHCR official said on Thursday.
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Nearly 530 Iraqi refugees were admitted to the United States last month, a huge bump from July but still far short of the number needed to fulfill the Bush administration's pledge to accept 2,000 by the end of September.