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                                          October 11th to October 25th, 2023 Lebanon Six UNRWA employees killed in Gaza within 24 hours: UN The United Nations declared on Monday evening that six UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) employees have been killed in Gaza within a span of 24 hours. According o the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the total death toll among UNRWA staff since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on October 7 has now reached 35. In a statement shared on X , the UN expressed deep sorrow over this loss, saying, "Words fail us." UNRWA, in response to the tragic news, emphasized that these 35 casualties were not just numbers but individuals who were colleagues and friends. Many of them were teachers in UNRWA schools. The agency grieves this profound loss. António Guterres, th...

                                          September 27th to October 10th 2023 Malawi Government Justifies Refugee's Treatment Five hundred refugees and asylum seekers are expected to be repatriated to their countries of origin next month, Minister of Homeland Security Ken Zikhale Ng’oma has said.   This came out Monday when Zikhale Ng’oma addressed the 74th Session of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Executive Committee in Geneva, Switzerland. He said Malawi fosters an environment that encourages the voluntary return of asylum seekers and refugees whose circumstances in the country of origin have greatly improved, noting that the 1951 Convention on the Protection of refugees provides that no one is expected to be a refugee for the rest of their life. “Malawi, in collaboration with UNHCR, has voluntarily repatriated 38 families, representing 147 indi...