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This is a new way of working for UNHCR. The partnerships with development partners is the way forward, it is a new approach intended to encourage self-reliance of both refugees and host community, boost the local economy, and also prepare refugees for sustainable returns, once conditions in their countries of origin allows

Refugees need to be assisted to return home in an orderly manner

#IBELONG to a world where everyone has the right to a nationality

For the first time, a team of refugee athletes will compete under the Olympic flag.

Chess has a way of bringing people together. I can admit to the fact that it breaks the boundaries among refugees from different ethnicity and nationalities.

In qualifying competitions held at the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps, over 100 young athletes of different nationalities demonstrated their athletic ability in races organised by UNHCR, in partnership with the Tegla Loroupe Peace Foundation (TLPF).

United Drama for Peace, a drama group from Kakuma Refugee Camp is shooting a movie.

Binamungu was keen on farming despite the climatic hardships so he and a group of friends started farming along the river beds that cut across the camp.

Refugee artists came together to showcase talent in art, music and theatre in a variety of activities at the French and German Cultural Centres