In 2023, Japan accepted 1,310 folks looking for asylum – lower than 10 per cent of the 13,823 candidates.
Underneath a special framework, as of the top of final 12 months, Japan had accepted a complete of 82 folks as college students from Syria who have been recognised as refugees by the UN refugee company, a international ministry official in command of support programmes mentioned.
That scheme was geared toward educating future leaders of Syria as a part of Japan’s long-term international support coverage, the official instructed AFP.
The well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza mentioned 50 Palestinian sufferers, together with 30 youngsters with most cancers, and their companions went through the reopened Rafah crossing to Egypt on Saturday as a part of the ceasefire deal, which got here into impact on Jan 19.
The director of Gaza hospitals mentioned 6,000 sufferers have been able to be transferred from the Palestinian territory, and greater than 12,000 have been “in dire want of remedy”.
