Refugee tide swamps world's biggest camp

The biggest refugee camp in the world is full, creating a humanitarian emergency that threatens thousands of malnourished children, MSF has warned.

Zambia's last DRC refugees fear return home

Ten years after fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Muzungu Makoi says he is still haunted by the massacres and refuses to leave Zambia.

Invisible torture

Increasingly, because of official pressure, refugees are going underground and making themselves more vulnerable.

'Here, I feel no fear, I don't hear machine guns'

They come in their thousands, travelling across Somalia's arid landscape to seek out a new life far from the violence that has ravaged their country.

Refugees evicted from Klerksoord camp, shacks burnt

City of Tshwane officials burnt shacks at Klerksoord refugee camp in Akasia, north of Pretoria, on Monday after evicting more than 300 people.

Lebanon rivals delay tricky defence talks

Political leaders in Lebanon on Monday adjourned talks on a national defence strategy -- at the heart of which lies the issue of Hezbollah's weapons.

Ghosts of DRC's battlefront

If not by the gun, many in the DRC die from conflict-induced illnesses, preventable diseases or hunger in a resource-rich but shattered nation.

Camp stops food for refugees

Baby formula and food are being smuggled into the Bluewaters refugee camp after volunteers were stopped from bringing supplies to the 600 refugees.

The luck of your birth

A celebrity photographer turns his lens on survivors of the eastern Congo conflict, now living in refugee camps.

Shut out and sent home

Despite the obvious need for refugee camps, government plans to close them down this Friday, reports Pearlie Joubert.

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