Global Initiative Sites Updates 2025

                                                                                                    March 10th to March 26th, 2025 South Africa Refugees Evicted From UNHCR in 2023 Reduced to Eating Frogs Refugees who were evicted from outside the Pretoria offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) two years ago say they would rather starve than expose their children to xenophobia. The group of about 16 families are living in an old school building in Bronkhorstpruit, between Pretoria and Emalahleni. They were among 33 families who camped outside UNHCR's offices for a year before being evicted in 2023 and moved to the old school. Instead of returning to their homes in townships around Gauteng or their countries of o...

                                                                                                  February 24th to March 3rd, 2025 Lebanon   Israel bombs ‘military targets’ in southern Syria, outside Damascus    The Israeli military has conducted air raids targeting what it described as military bases and command centres in southern Syria and outside the capital, Damascus. Israeli warplanes hit the town of Kisweh, approximately 20km (12 miles) south of Damascus, as well as the southern province of Deraa late on Tuesday, residents, security sources and local broadcaster Syria TV said. The Israeli army said it struck “military targets in southern Syria, including command centres and multiple sites containing weapons”, without speci...