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The number of people forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution worldwide stood at 42 million at the end of last year amid a sharp slowdown in repatriation and more prolonged conflicts resulting in protracted displacement.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today led staff worldwide in mourning a UNHCR colleague, Aleksandar Vorkapic, who was killed Tuesday night in the bombing of a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.

s the fighting in north-east Sri Lanka comes to an end, the scale of the challenges facing UNHCR and other humanitarian agencies on the ground become more apparent.

In north-west Pakistan, thousands of displaced people continue to arrive in camps and to approach registration centres.

Despite the lull in fighting in Mogadishu, the number of people fleeing the Somali capital in the last 12 days has now risen to 45,000.

High Commissioner António Guterres has asked the European Commission to consider convening a meeting between Italy, Malta, Libya, UNHCR and other relevant partners to work on a joint strategy for a more satisfactory response to irregular migration across the Mediterranean, following Italy’s recent ‘push-backs’ to Libya.

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