Apr 28 10
Tanzania welcomes new nationals from refugee settlements
For any family or community, addition of a new member is something that usually brings joy and extra responsibilities. Then imagine what the horde of newly naturalised citizens of Tanzania can do to the East African nation that is already struggling to overcome numerous hurdles on its path to socio-economic development. Thanks to the legacy that the nation’s founder leader Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere handed down to his successors, Tanzania abides by the principle of generosity and care for refugees from other countries. In 1983 Nyerere was awarded the UN Refugee Agency’s Nansen Medal in recognition of Tanzania’s exemplary record…
Apr 27 10
Hard times for Iraqi newcomers
Awatif Albadri and her son, Anas Alhamdani (left), spoke with interpreter Bashier Doss in Chelsea District Court last month concerning her family’s efforts to avoid being evicted. (Pat Greenhouse/ Globe Staff) CHELSEA — Awatif Albadri survived the Iraq War and the deaths of her husband in a car crash and her son by assassination. On an overcast morning last month, nearly a year and a half after arriving here with three children, she was in court trying to avert homelessness. Dressed in a black abaya, she sat outside the hearing room, conferring with her lawyer, landlord, a social worker, and…
Apr 26 10
School for Hope
Valentino Deng in his native town of Marial Bai, southern Sudan, where with American help he has founded a new high school. Photo: Nicholas D. Kristof/The New York Times Southern Sudan is one of the most impoverished places on earth, and this remote town lacks electricity and running water and is 150 miles from the nearest paved road. Yet, thanks to a remarkable young American who grew up here — and to readers who backed him — the town has become a magnet for young Sudanese dreaming of an education. From hundreds of miles around, boys and girls are streaming…
Apr 19 10
Tanzania grants citizenship to 162 000 Burundian refugees
UN High Commissioner for Refugee, António Guterres, praise the Tanzanian government for its “unprecedented generosity and courageous decision”. Burundian women at Katumba settlement cheer after hearing that they will become Tanzanian citizens. UNHCR/E.Wolfcarius KATUMBA, Tanzania, April 15 – UN High Commissioner for Refugee António Guterres has lauded Tanzania’s landmark decision to grant citizenship to tens of thousands of Burundian refugees who fled to Tanzania in 1972. During a visit by Guterres on Thursday to the Katumba ward in the south-west of the country, Tanzania’s Home Affairs Minister Lawrence Masha told a gathering of so-called “1972 Burundian refugees” that the government…
Apr 14 10
YEMEN: Making health care accessible for refugees in south
Healthcare discrimination has prevented some Somali refugees from seeking treatment in public hospitals (file photo) Photo: Adel Yahya/IRIN ADEN, 13 April 2010 (IRIN) – Volunteers at some hospitals in Aden, southern Yemen, have started a new initiative to help African refugees, mainly Somalis, access health care. Omar Abdu, a Somali refugee living in Aden’s Basateen area, is one of those who received help from the Health for All Association (HAA) NGO. He has successfully undergone an operation in the government-run Ibn Khaldoon Hospital to remove multiple stones in his bladder. “You need a lot of money to receive [this] treatment in a…
Apr 12 10
2 Iranian refugees have tortured past, but brighter future
Refugees with similar histories are working to change one’s life of homelessness and mental problems while fighting rolls of red tape. Jamshid Afshar, right, greets Mokhtar Hossein for the first time outside his tent on Foremaster Lane just north of downtown Las Vegas. Afshar has been living in the homeless tent camp since coming to Las Vegas. (Leila Navidi) One of the two men sits on the couch in his student-sized apartment near UNLV and sees the faces, the bodies of thousands of fellow Iranian political prisoners whom the Khomeini regime shot, hanged and blew up in the summer of 1988. He…
Mar 16 10
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