Afghanistan, struggling with a huge indigenous drug problem, has a new crisis. Its drug treatment centres — particularly in the capital, Kabul – are being inundated by heroin-addicted former refugees, many forcibly expelled from neighbouring Iran and Pakistan.
Kenya must stop forcibly returning internal refugees displaced by post-election violence that saw hundreds of thousands flee their homes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday. More than 1Â 200 people were killed and 300Â 000 left their homes after ethnic clashes hit swathes of the country following a disputed election in December.
Most South African schools have enrolled a significant number of foreign learners from neighbouring countries that are experiencing political and economic instability.
Soldiers, insurgents and bandits are routinely attacking Somalian civilians, murdering, raping and robbing villagers, and destroying entire districts, Amnesty International said this week. Gang rape and throat cutting — referred to locally as ”killing like goats” — is prevalent.
Soldiers, insurgents and bandits are routinely attacking Somalian civilians, carrying out murder, rape, and robbery on villagers, and destroying entire districts, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Gang rape and throat cutting — referred to locally as ”killing like goats” — is prevalent.
As Zimbabwe’s opposition mulls its options over whether to contest a run-off election against President Robert Mugabe, refugees in South Africa continue to suffer at the hands of the South African police. On April 25, policemen raided a block of flats in Pageview, west of the city-centre, which is home to 15 Zimbabwean refugees.
The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday unveiled a new partnership with internet giant Google to help track refugees from Iraq to Darfur and raise public awareness of its work. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees launched its new service using the ”Google Earth Outreach” programme.
With the Olympics only months away, 100 Tibetan refugees set off on a march to Tibet from India on Monday, to protest what they see as China’s illegal occupation of their homeland. Organisers said several thousand people, Tibetans, Indians and Westerners, accompanied the marchers as they set off from the Indian town of Dharamsala.
The sun-blasted desert between this small Chadian border town and Sudan’s Darfur is scattered with stunted trees and thorny shrubs. Beneath each one, Sudanese refugees huddle under blankets or sheets tied to branches, desperately seeking shade.
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Chad said on Monday it would not accept any more refugees from Sudan’s Darfur region and would expel them unless the international community sent them back home or found another country to shelter them. Prime Minister Nouradine Delwa Kassire Coumakoye gave the warning as thousands of fresh Sudanese refugees crossed Chad’s eastern border.