A sharp reduction in funding has forced UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its partners to slash support to thousands of Nicaraguan refugees and asylum-seekers in Costa Rica.

As humanitarian needs reach critical levels in Costa Rica, due to continuing displacement from Nicaragua, a 41 per cent funding cut is seriously impacting the ability of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...