Some have grown desperate. The Refugee Coalition of East Africa documented at least 200 LGBTQ asylum seekers who went to South Sudan, a war-torn and desperately poor country to Kenya's north, after ...

The Trump administration is considering a regulation that would prevent most asylum-seekers from getting work permits, potentially upending longstanding U.S. immigration policy, two Department of ...

LGBTQ refugees from South Sudan, Uganda and Congo on their way to demand protection at the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2019. They said they ...

About 1.7 million people, mainly from Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, live here, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. The situation for refugees throughout Africa is now ...

Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan's capital Juba to "secure it", Uganda's military chief said on Tuesday, but South Sudan's information minister denied the presence of troops, as ...

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof on Thursday said there was a need to discuss solutions that work best to send asylum seekers back. Schoof, who is attending a summit in Brussels with all 27 ...

The conservative Dutch government is looking into sending rejected African asylum seekers to Uganda, Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on Thursday, while acknowledging it might not be feasible.

The Netherlands is looking at the possibility of sending rejected asylum seekers to Uganda, a Dutch media report said Wednesday, as the country's far-right-led government moved to limit immigration.

Uganda’s previous ‘open door’ policy has led it to host more than 1.6 million refugees – more than anywhere else in Africa – from countries including Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic ...

Uganda hosts the highest number of refugees and asylum-seekers in Africa, with almost 1.7 million people mainly from South Sudan and the DRC, yet it was among UNHCR’s 13 top underfunded operations ...