Stigma can stop women seeking help but Hawa Bah, who was cut at eight, reaches those suffering in silence to get them the care they needOne night 14 years ago, Hawa Bah crept out of her house in Guinea and slipped into the darkness. She says she had lo…
Afghan boy, 5, fell from Sheffield hotel on to car park roof, inquest told
Mohammed Munib Majeedi died last week after arriving from Afghanistan with his familyThe body of a five-year-old Afghan refugee who fell from a hotel in Sheffield was found on top of a neighbouring multistorey car park, an inquest has heard.Mohammed Mu…
Turkey reinforces Iran border to block Afghan refugees
By the end of the year, authorities plan to add another 64km to a border wall intended to stop refugees arriving on their way to westAfghans who manage to make the weeks-long journey through Iran on foot to the Turkish border face a three-metre high w…
It is our moral duty to take in more Afghan refugees | Letters
Readers despair at the Tory government’s treatment of the people who risked their lives to work for it in AfghanistanYou have to admire the genius of the UK’s refugee policy: first, no one who gets here unofficially can be considered for asylum and the…
If only Dominic Raab had watched Iron Man | Stewart Lee
The foreign secretary was in good company in woefully misjudging the Taliban threatMany of the excitable characters who impulsively phone talk radio stations without having thought through their contradictory positions are rightly horrified by footage …
Afghans face catastrophe without urgent aid, UN warns
As deaths are reported in crush at Kabul airport, Keir Starmer leads calls for Dominic Raab to resign over UK’s ‘complacent’ responseAfghanistan is facing an “absolute catastrophe” involving widespread hunger, homelessness and economic collapse unless …
The Tampa affair, 20 years on: the ship that capsized Australia’s refugee policy
When a Norwegian freighter rescued 433 asylum seekers from a sinking vessel en route to Christmas Island, it sparked a crisis that led to hardline border policies and indelibly shifted the response to boat arrivalsEven to Abbas Nazari’s disoriented sev…
Afghan child refugees left without support in Home Office hotels
Charities accuse the government of failing to meet young asylum seekers’ basic needs, despite care pledge Child refugees from Afghanistan are being held by the Home Office in hotels for weeks on end without shoes, spare clothes, money or access to heal…
Greece extends border wall to deter Afghans trying to reach Europe
Surveillance system also installed at fence bordering Turkey as Greek ministers vow to turn back refugeesGreece said it has completed a 25-mile (40km) wall on its border with Turkey and installed a surveillance system to prevent possible asylum seekers…
Afghanistan refugees: how many are being evacuated and where will they go?
The Taliban takeover has sparked a hurried exodus of people associated with the western intervention in the countryHow many people have been evacuated from Afghanistan?At least 12,000 people have been evacuated via Kabul airport since the start of a tu…