GIHEMBE, Rwanda, April 10 (UNHCR) - Jacqueline swiftly navigates through dozens of fussing hens before swooping down and deftly grabbing one flapping fowl. Although the henhouse is dimly lit, the ...

GIHEMBE REFUGEE CAMP, Rwanda, June 13 (UNHCR) - Marie, one of 17,000 Congolese refugees in this camp in northern Rwanda, has a more varied diet than most - it includes lots of home-grown mushrooms.

British Hollywood actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw met with refugees this week in Rwanda’s Mahama and Gihembe refugee camps, on her first trip with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Rwanda has been hosting ...

GICUMBI - Congolese refugees living at Gihembe refugee camp have at last received the food rations, after facing a two months food shortage. Speaking to The New Times, the World Food Program (WFP) ...

KIGALI, Rwanda (GPI)--“I was born in Congo and fled my country when I was a very little girl,” says Jeanine Kaneza, 20, a refugee at Gihembe refugee camp in Rwanda’s Northern province. “I was ...

Rwanda National Police has told Congolese refugees to adhere to the country’s laws on Gender Based Violence (GBV). The call was made yesterday by Assistant Commissioner of Police, Vianney Nshimiyimana ...

Over 12,500 Congolese refugees in Gihembe camp in Gicumbi district have committed to embrace income generating activities following the recent 25 per cent reduction in food rations. When Filippo ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Claudette Uwera cried tears of frustration every day because she couldn’t communicate with her classmates at Olmsted Academy South. “I didn’t know how to say hi,” said Uwera, ...

Howard G. Buffett, an American philanthropist, has pledged to help Congolese refugees currently living the country's camps repatriate. Buffett made the pledge yesterday at Gihembe Refugee Camp in ...

When Lucy Mbabazi, now 35, first visited a refugee camp in Rwanda in 2012, she realized her mother was right: It's easy to get lost. The small, identical mud huts, she recalls, stood close together ...

“Anything but conventional” is how a School of Engineering and Applied Sciences website described award-winning PhD student Emmanuel Nsengiyumva’s journey to UB. “Emmanuel’s unique life story,” were ...

Dawes has released its cover of The Waterboys’ classic folk tune “Fisherman’s Blues.” The track is available to fans who donate to the United Nations Foundations’ Nothing But Nets campaign, which aims ...