Refugee Day to be observed

This years' World Refugee Day will be observed on Thursday, 20 June, with other activities to highlight the occasion.

A press release issued in Accra by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), said Muslims would pray for the refugees on Friday 14 June. There would be clean up exercises at various refugee camps in the country on the following day to be followed by Christian prayers on Sunday, 16 June.

Lectures on "The Refugee" shall be delivered at the Saint Thomas Aquinas Senior Secondary School on Monday, 17 June and on Monday, 18 June. As part of the celebration, members of the Diplomatic Corps, United Nations Heads of Agencies, senior government officials and other partners would visit the Gomoa Buduburam refugee camp, the release added.