Sunset Hospitality backs UNHCR’s refugee initiativeSunset Hospitality Group (SHG), renowned for exceptional hospitality and lifestyle experiences in Dubai, has joined forces with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to support 100 refugees and displaced families during Ramadan. As part o More… |
Sunset Hospitality backs UNHCR’s refugee initiativeSunset Hospitality Group (SHG), renowned for exceptional hospitality and lifestyle experiences in Dubai, has joined forces with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to support 100 refugees and displaced families during Ramadan. As part o More… |
Fund for online learning for refugee childrenAbdul Aziz Al Ghurair, Chairman of the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education (AGFE), has launched a Covid-19 Online Learning Emergency Fund as part of the Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund. More… |
Etihad, Air Serbia provide support to needy children in BelgradeEtihad Airways and its strategic partner Air Serbia have donated items of winter clothing, stationary, school bags, and food parcels to more than 2,000 refugee children and Serbian orphans in Belgrade. The aid package, which More… |
101 celebrities to raise funds for refugees worldwideOne hundred and one celebrities are coming together to raise funds for refugees worldwide by donating their jeans to be painted by fashion designer and artist Johny Dar, for a project called ‘Jeans for Refugees’. The celebri More… |
From Congo to Brazil, refugee lives Olympic dreamGrowing up as an orphan in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, Popole Misenga never imagined he would be competing in the Olympic Games in his adopted city of Rio de Janeiro, much less for a new refugee team. But on August More… |
Syria war could spark confrontation between powersThe chance of unintentional confrontation between foreign powers involved in Syria has risen as its five-year-old conflict turns into a proxy war influenced by increasingly engaged outside powers, a European think-tank said on Wednesday. More… |
Istanbul bomber ‘entered Turkey as refugee’An Islamic State suicide bomber who killed 10 German tourists in the heart of Istanbul's historic district entered Turkey as a refugee from Syria and went undetected as he was not on any watch lists, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on We More… |
RCO-built school for Syrian refugee children opensA school for Syrian refugee children in Jordan built by Bahrain has officially opened its doors. The 2,135-sq-m, solar-powered Bahrain School was constructed in Irbid Governorate, north of the capital Amman, under an agreement signed between t More… |
Commercial ships scoop up desperate human cargoIn October last year, bulk carrier CS Caprice was shipping a cargo of barley across the Mediterranean when it answered a call to help about 500 people who were drifting north of Libya without a skipper. A brewing storm threatened to capsize thei More… |