{"id":11538,"date":"2026-04-27T07:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/27\/afghan-refugees-us-transfer-congo-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:45:24","slug":"afghan-refugees-us-transfer-congo-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/27\/afghan-refugees-us-transfer-congo-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns Raised Over Possible US Plan to Transfer Afghan Refugees to Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan support organization known as &#8220;Afghan Ewak&#8221; has announced that, according to a reported plan by the United States government, some Afghan refugees at a camp in Qatar have been told that if they do not return to Afghanistan, they may be transferred to the Democratic Republic of Congo. <\/p>\n<p>According to the organization, this issue is being used as a tool to reject these individuals&#8217; asylum requests. &#8220;Afghan Ewak&#8221; has warned that proposing such an option could exert psychological pressure on families who have left Afghanistan following recent political developments. <\/p>\n<p>The support group has called on the US government to reconsider this decision and to examine the situation of Afghan refugees individually and fairly. The organization believes that many of these individuals cannot return to Afghanistan due to security concerns and the prevailing conditions in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Following the recent developments in Afghanistan, thousands of Afghan citizens have been relocated to various countries, with some still residing in temporary centers awaiting the resolution of their asylum cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan support group warns of US plan to move Afghan refugees in Qatar to Congo, urging fair review amid fears of psychological pressure and security risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}