At least 20,000 people have fled their homes near the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, after fighting between the army and rebels, officials said on 9 May.

A good level of security prevails in southern Chad, despite concerns over road banditry and an influx of refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR), says the United Nations peacekeeping operation in the two countries.

Stéphanie Malak was injured by a landmine in 1998 when her village, was attacked, allegedly by rebels from the Movement for Democratic Change (MFDC), and then mined. She fled with her family to Ziguinchor where she is trying to make ends meet. She told IRIN her story.

Mrs. Angelina Baiden-Amissah, Deputy Minister in charge of Pre-Tertiary Education has announced an internal repatriation strategy to send back all young migrants who have travelled from rural areas to Accra in search of greener pastures.

As Liberian refugees are expressing their willingness to return and contribute to the development process in Liberia, the momentum for repatriation has increased.  During the past few weeks, the Liberian Government through the Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC), in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has assisted in the ...

The government will on Monday launch a fundraising campaign for nearly 500 million US dollars for the resettlement and support of persons displaced by the post-election violence.

For the entire nation of Rwanda, not to say those Rwandans like myself who are also citizens of other countries, April, like every other April since 1994, has been a month of solemn remembrance.

President, God's Kingdom Society (GKS), Brother Aighalua, has enjoined people all over the world to look to God for help and succour in the face of the global food crisis.

Displaced families have accused the Government of keeping them in the dark over their resettlement.

THE tripartite meeting on the repatriation of Angolan refugees from Zambia has resolved that Zambia should consider absorbing some Angolans that are not willing to return to their home country.

More than 45,000 uprooted people in Rift Valley have been resettled on their farms.

Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony’s failure to sign a peace deal in April drove a nail into the coffin of the Juba peace process—a process that is grinding to an unsuccessful end.[1]

Displaced people in Nakuru have asked the Government to suspend plans to move them from the camp.

Kalenjin elders in Rift Valley have vowed to ensure that displaced people return to their homes safely.

A violent storm has reportedly destroyed many homes and left several families internally displaced in the commercial city of Ganta, Nimba County.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has denounced the killing of one of its truck drivers in Somalia - the second incident of its kind this year - by militiamen who stopped the agency's food convoy at an illegal checkpoint in the central part of the strife-torn nation.

THE relocation of people displaced by floods at Oshakati is underway.

More than 6,000 Liberians who arrived Nigeria as refugees in 1990 following the civil war that started in their country in the late 80s yesterday began their journey home after 18 years in Nigeria .

Thousands of internal refugees camping at the Eldoret ASK showground have until Friday to decide whether to go back to their farms or remain at the camp, the Government has said.

Internal refugees who fled to Central Province will be taken back to their former homes once the Government finalises logistics, PC Japhter Rugut said on Wednesday.

When calm returned to Kipkelion about a month ago, Leah Cheptanui was among the first people to move out of the internal refugee camp at the district commissioner's compound.

Burundians breathed a sigh of relief in March 2008 when the government and sole remaining rebel group, the Forces nationales de libération (FNL), announced they would resume negotiations on 1 April and complete them in July. But that day came and went without any talks taking place.

Displaced people from a farm in Trans-Nzoia District have refused to go home.

The "Pooled Fund" which was established by the international community in 2006 and is coordinated by the United Nations has allocated $60 million to 163 humanitarian projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The resettlement of internal refugees Tuesday hit a snag after a group said they did not want to go back to their homes due to insecurity fears.