UNHCR urges CAR combatants to use Pope’s visit to seek peace
GENEVA, Nov 27 (UNHCR)—The UN Refugee Agency has urged Central African Republic’s warring groups to take the opportunity of Pope Francis’s scheduled visit to Bangui this weekend to rebuild the national reconciliation process. Pope Francis is due to arrive...
UNHCR water project aids road safety in Kyrgyzstan
TASHTAK, Kyrgyzstan—For children in this Kyrgyzstan village which was once torn apart by ethnic strife, a daily trek to get buckets of drinking water posed an unexpected danger: traffic. “Whenever my sister and I fetched water, we were afraid to cross the busy...