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May 22
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Nigeria: Nigerians On the Run As Military Combats Boko Haram
Tens of thousands of residents of northeastern Nigeria's Borno State have fled their homes - thousands of them into neighbouring Niger and Cameroon - following airstrikes by... Read more »
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Africa: Seeking Safety in the City
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are forced from their homes by violence or natural disasters. Read more »
May 17
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South Africa: Cape Town's Asylum Seekers Struggle to Get Documented
When Jean Baptiste*, a medical student from Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), arrived in South Africa in September 2012, he headed straight for Cape Town,... Read more »
May 16
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North Africa: Libyans in North Africa Scared to Return Home
Until government and revolutionary forces attacked the Libyan town of Bani Walid, about 170km southeast of the capital Tripoli in October last year, Abdullah Warfella had been... Read more »
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Africa: The Price of Fear [analysis]
In slums where killings, rape, kidnappings and other criminal violence are commonplace, say researchers, lives and livelihoods are hampered by a force that is tough to measure:... Read more »
May 15
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South Africa: Quelling Xenophobia in Townships
This week marks five years since tensions between foreigners and South Africans living in impoverished communities across the country erupted in xenophobic violence, leaving more... Read more »
May 8
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Africa: The Plight of LGBTI Asylum Seekers, Refugees
Refugees and asylum seekers face a host of challenges when crossing borders, but the obstacles are particularly pronounced for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex... Read more »
May 7
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Nigeria: Displaced Still Homeless After Clashes in Baga
Thousands of residents of Baga in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, remain displaced for fear of further clashes breaking out between radical Islamist group Boko Haram and troops... Read more »
May 6
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South Sudan: 'We Want to Go to Our Own Homeland'
Years ago, Mary Venerato Laki fled conflict in South Sudan, moving north to Sudan, where she worked as a teacher for 42 years. But after a January 2011 referendum paved the way for... Read more »
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South Sudan: The Long Road Home
George Malual Deng, 24, has spent two years stuck in a transit site waiting to return to his home in South Sudan's Jonglei state. He is among 20,000 people who have made a home of... Read more »
May 2
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Congo-Kinshasa: Conflict Cuts Off Civilians in DRC's Katanga
Tens of thousands of displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Katanga Province have received little or no humanitarian aid in the months since having fled... Read more »
April 30
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South Africa: Nation's Flawed Asylum System
South Africa attracts the largest number of asylum seekers in the world, but grants refugee status to very few of them, ranking only thirty-sixth in the world for the size of its... Read more »
April 26
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Chad: Regional Insecurity Adding to Chad's Humanitarian Needs
Chad is grappling with an influx of refugees and returnees into its south-eastern regions, mainly from neighbouring Sudan, and others from the Central African Republic (CAR)... Read more »
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Uganda: Uganda Pilots Mobile Courts for Refugees
Uganda's government and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have launched a pilot mobile court system to improve access to justice for victims of crimes in Nakivale, the country's oldest... Read more »
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Mali: Hunger At Crisis Levels in Northern Mali
Hunger in Mali has reached crisis levels in the northern Kidal Region and has reached critical levels in Gao and Timbuktu regions, according to food security agencies and the... Read more »
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Mali: Malian Refugees Face Abject Conditions, Long Displacement
Some 70,000 Malian refugees in Mauritania are facing enormous hardships and, as political and ethnic tensions persist back home, the prospect of a prolonged displacement. Read more »
April 10
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Africa: Europe's Forced Returnees Claim Abuse
Cases of excessive force being used to remove rejected asylum seekers have been documented in a number of European countries. But with the financial crisis eroding sympathy and... Read more »
April 5
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Central African Republic: Urgent Humanitarian Needs in Post-Coup Central African Republic
Less than two weeks after the overthrow of Central African Republic (CAR) President François Bozizé in a rebel coup, the humanitarian situation has deteriorated,... Read more »
April 3
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Libya: Thousands of Families Displaced in Nafusa Mountains
Relations between ethnic groups in Libya's northwestern Nafusa Mountains remain tense several weeks after renewed clashes in the town of Mizdah. Read more »
March 29
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Congo-Brazzaville: In Congo, Thousands Still Homeless One Year After Munitions Blasts
Thousands of people remain homeless in the Republic of Congo (ROC) one year after being displaced following a deadly munitions blast at an army barracks in the capital,... Read more »
March 28
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Rwanda: Congolese Refugee Camps in Rwanda "Full"
Camps in Rwanda hosting thousands of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are running out of space following an influx of people fleeing insecurity in eastern DRC,... Read more »
March 21
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Congo-Kinshasa: Boosting Support for IDPs Outside DRC's Formal Camps
Humanitarian agencies in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) North Kivu Province are working to increase their support for hundreds of thousands of displaced people living... Read more »
March 14
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Africa: New Network Monitors Abuses of Deportees
JOHANNESBURG, 13 March 2013 (IRIN) - The principle of non-refoulement, which prohibits the return of asylum seekers and refugees to a country where their lives or freedom would be... Read more »
March 11
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Eritrea: Imprisoned Eritreans Complain of Being Forced to Leave Israel
Testimonies of jailed Eritrean migrants and asylum seekers (collected by a local NGO) say officials at Saharonim prison in Israel's Southern Negev desert are coercing them to sign... Read more »
March 4
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Mali: The Returns Challenge in Mali
Nearly 3,000 Malians who fled towns and villages in the north when armed men occupied their homeland have headed home, but the vast majority are staying put in the south or in... Read more »
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