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Press Releases
UN refugee agency starts an airlift operation to deliver core relief items to 50,000 displaced in northeastern Syria
Press Releases, 9 February 2014
Damascus – The UN refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday that it has started the 1st out of up to 13 airlifts planned to deliver winterized core relief items (CRI), medicine, and other supplies to 50,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northeastern Syria. The first flight took off today from Damascus heading to Qamishli with hundreds of boxes of medical supplies including medicines, vaccines, syringes, sugar and saline solution, in addition to a UNHCR armored vehicle. The second and third flight will follow tomorrow with 5000 kitchen sets, two prefabricated warehouses and winterized CRI on board…

Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres on SARC/ UN Homs Evacuation and Humanitarian Aid Delivery Effort
Press Releases, 9 February 2014
“I would like to pay tribute to the enormous courage of the volunteers of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the staff of the UN who carried out a humanitarian evacuation effort of civilians as well as an aid delivery operation in Homs in the most dangerous of circumstances.
This shows that even in the darkest of nights it is possible to offer a glimmer of hope to people in desperate need of assistance.
I am particularly encouraged by the determination of our staff to go on trying to help those who so far haven’t been reached with critical, lifesaving aid.”

News
Almost 9,000 people flee from CAR to Cameroon to escape fresh tension and violence
Thousands have been fleeing to the town of Kentzou in eastern Cameroon. Most are Central Africans, but arrivals include people from Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria and Mali.

South Sudan: UNHCR and partners start aid distribution for 10,000 in Malakal
This is the first aid to reach the displaced people living outside the UN base in Malakal, which was the scene some of the fiercest fighting last month.

Music keeps hope alive for a trio of urban refugees in Luanda
Music helps Freeboy Gbaryeel cope with the drudgery of his daily life and the uncertainty of his future. A gift of guitars could help him become self-sufficient.

Typhoon Haiyan: Indigenous people seek to break cycle of displacement
Jahina Lugasan has been displaced twice in her life, most recently by Typhoon Haiyan. This is a heritage she does not want to pass on to her granddaughter.

Central African Republic: Chadian refugees leave their home of decades
Under a programme launched by UNHCR and the IOM, a group of 201 Chadian refugees are repatriated. Some 400 Congolese will also go home this week.