Former Somali Refugee Wins Prestigious UN Award
Voice of America
This handout picture taken on Nov. 8, 2023, shows Abdullahi Mire, winner of the U.N. refugee agency's prestigious Nansen Award, posing for a picture in one of the libraries he established in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp. (AFP Photo/UNHCR) This handout picture taken on Oct. 25, 2023, shows Abdullahi Mire, left, winner of the U.N. refugee agency's prestigious Nansen Award distributing books to refugee students in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp. (AFP Photo/UNHCR)
A former child refugee from Somalia has been named as this year's winner of the prestigious UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award.
This handout photo taken June 9, 2024, and provided by the South Korean Defense Ministry shows unidentified objects believed to be North Korean trash from balloons that crossed the inter-Korea border, on a street in Seoul. A North Korean military guard post, top, and South Korean post, bottom, are seen from Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, May 31, 2024.
A textbook is seen on a high school student's desk during a philosophy class at the Averroes school, France's biggest Muslim educational institution that has lost its state funding, Lille, France, March 19, 2024. Middle school students, some wearing a hijab, listen to teacher Ilyas Laarej during an Islamic ethics class at the Averroes school, France's biggest Muslim educational institution that has lost its state funding, Lille, France, March 19, 2024. High school student Noha Fouad and her friend walks toward a classroom and in front of a banner that says "Ramadan Kareem" in the courtyard of the Averroes school, Lille, France, March 19, 2024. A middle school student scribbles on a piece of paper during an Islamic ethics class at the Averroes school, France's biggest Muslim educational institution that has lost its state funding, Lille, France, March 19, 2024. Students wearing abayas put their shoes back on as they prepare to leave the prayer room at the Averroes school, France's biggest Muslim educational institution that has lost its state funding, Lille, France, March 19, 2024.