Oballa Oballa’s trek to election day was a long and improbable one. He grew up in the Gambella region of Ethiopia, where he witnessed mass killin...
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has announced plans to support Africa in combating the desert locust invasion is threatening food security. ...
The Trump administration on Friday announced an expansion of the travel ban -- one of the President's signature policies, which has been derided by cr...
Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world’s refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million ...
The number of African migrants apprehended by U.S. border officials has spiked, from a total of less than a hundred in years past to more than 600 in ...
The U.N. refugee agency says it has evacuated 149 refugees and asylum-seekers from the strife-torn Libyan capital of Tripoli and brought them to safet...
A total of 149 Africans in Libya were evacuated to Italy on Thursday, but more states must help people escape deteriorating conditions in Tripoli afte...
Abdulkadir Ababora was sitting in the front row of a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, last week when a 28-year-old Australian gunman opened fire d...
Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday after 49 people were killed and dozens wou...
Three militia members convicted of taking part in a foiled plot to massacre Muslims in southwest Kansas were sentenced Friday to decades in prison dur...
A diplomatic spat between Italy and France over migration to Europe is a likely forerunner of coming political battles in the run-up to European Parli...
Ethiopia passed a law on Thursday giving almost 1 million refugees the right to work and live outside of camps, in a move praised for providing them w...
Remember when you said you wanted to move to Canada? Now is a good time to start packing your bags. The Canadian Parliament has announced plans t...
Violence and insecurity have forced more than 28 million children from their homes in 2018, UNICEF said in a news release Thursday. The U.N. childr...
The number of migrants arriving in Yemen is set to rise 50 percent this year compared to 2017, with almost 150,000 risking all on the journey from the...
Voters in Minnesota and Michigan on Tuesday elected the first two Muslim women to serve in the U.S. Congress, a former refugee who fled Somalia’s ci...
U.S. President Donald Trump again stoked fears Thursday about undocumented immigrants and promised an executive order “sometime next week” that wo...
Ilhan Omar landed in the US as a refugee at 12-years-old, fleeing the war in her home country Somalia. 24 years later, Omar stands to make history ...
Trafficking gangs are flourishing across Africa through the exploitation of hundreds of thousands of migrants, yet nations are failing to dismantle ne...
Nairobi has been put on high alert following the discovery of a new strain of polio. The Ministry of Health now says it is putting all its resource...