Africa: ICT Offers Refugees Fresh Hope

Refugees and displaced people can now use mobile phones to search for loved ones via an anonymous database, and subsequently to connect using SMS or the Internet.

A screenshot of refunite.org Website outlining steps to finding a lost relative or friend.

Ivoirian refugees queue to register in Loguatu on the eastern Liberian border.

Refugee girls fetch water from a well in Cameroon.

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