United Nations refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi has hailed Colombia's outgoing president, Ivan Duque for having allowed refugees and migrants from crisis-hit Venezuela to enter and remain in his country.
The United Nations refugee agency's representative for Italy, Chiara Cardoletti, on Tuesday hailed the country's "key" role in helping UNHCR maintain peace and security and protect refugees.
A total of 95 refugees have been flown to Italy from Libya, including children, female trafficking victims, survivors of torture and violence people with grave health problems, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
United Nations refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi has praised the Czech Republic for welcoming some 380,000 refugees who have fled there from their homeland since Russia's invasion on 24 February.
Italy has teamed up with two United Nations agencies to make available a further 10 million euros to help Moldova host hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees who have entered the country since Russia invaded their homeland on 24 February.
A total five million people have now fled war-afflicted Ukraine, United Nations refugee agency UNHCR's chief Filippo Grandi tweeted on Wednesday, appealing for an end to the devastating conflict.
During a visit to Naples on Tuesday, Italy's premier Mario Draghi met a group of refugees from war-wracked Ukraine who are being helped by volunteers from the Community of Saint Gennaro Foundation, Draghi's office said in a statement.
Around 70,000 Ukrainian refugees have entered Italy since Russia launched its devastating invasion of Ukraine four weeks ago, the country's ambassador, Yaroslav Melnyk, said on Wednesday.
Russia's military onslaught in Ukraine, giving fresh impetus to European Union enlargement, refugees and stability of the Balkans were at the centre of phone talks Friday between Luigi Di Maio and his Bulgarian counterpart, Teodora Genchovska.
Italy will do its utmost to welcome the "ever-growing numbers" of refugees fleeing war zones in Ukraine, interior minister Luciana Lamorgese told her Ukrainian counterpart Denys Monastyrskiy on Wednesday.
The UN World Food Programme in Iran has welcomed a one million pound donation from the United Kingdom to help vulnerable refugees in Iran, Rome-headquartered WFP said in a statement on Monday.
Italy will host a total 1,200 refugees from crisis-hit Afghanistan under an accord inked on Thursday between the government, two United Nations agencies and various civil society organisations.
Qatar's deputy foreign minister Lolwah Alkhate has praised Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio for the interest he showed in Afghan refugees during his recent visit to Doha.
United Nations refugee chief Filippo Grandi on Monday arrived in Kabul, capital of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where a humanitarian crisis looms, to assess the situation at first hand.
Italy wants to assist countries bordering Afghanistan that are set to host many thousand of refugees from the Taliban-controlled, war-ravaged country, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said Friday.
With the end of evacuation operations from Kabul on Monday, a much larger humanitarian emergency is only just beginning in the Taliban-controlled country, United Nations refugee chief Filippo Grandi warned.
Italy will keep helping the population of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and the region but wants to ensure its humanitarian aid gets to those in need, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said Monday, according to sources.
UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi on Friday urged more international support for Democratic Republic of Congo as it struggles with one of the largest internally displaced populations in Africa while hosting half a million refugees fleeing conflict elsewhere in the region.
New initiatives to boost Italy's already "excellent" cooperation with the United Nations refugee agency was the focus of talks on Thursday in Rome between foreign minister Luigi Di Maio, and UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi.
The United Nations refugee agency and World Food Programme on Tuesday appealed for US$266 million to safeguard more than 3 million refugees in East Africa after funding shortages forced the world body to cut their rations by up to 60%.
