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/ 29 January 2007
Yusif Agoub is proud of the fleshy Masgouf fish from the river Euphrates swimming in a tiled pool in his kitchen and the rough Iraqi bread baking in the wood-fired oven. It feels like Baghdad but the carp are imported from Syria and this is one of the best restaurants in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
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/ 24 January 2007
Yusif Agoub is proud of the fleshy Masgouf fish from the river Euphrates swimming in a tiled pool in his kitchen and the rough Iraqi bread baking in the wood-fired oven. It feels like Baghdad but the carp are imported from Syria and this is one of the best restaurants in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
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/ 23 January 2007
Thousands of Iraqis who have fled the violence in their country are stranded in Lebanon seeking asylum, according to a senior United Nations official. Having not signed the UN’s convention relating to the status of refugees, introduced in 1951, Lebanon does not grant asylum to any refugees, despite the presence on its territory of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
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/ 12 January 2007
Food aid began reaching 6 000 Somalis on Friday trying to flee fighting in their homeland but blocked from entering Kenya, the United Nations said. A war that ousted south Somalia’s six-month Islamist rulers sent thousands of civilians heading for the border with Kenya.
Improved security in war-ravaged northern Uganda following peace talks between the government and rebels allowed 230Â 000 internal refugees to go home in 2006, the United Nations World Food Programme said on Friday. Talks are set to resume in south Sudan this month after the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels agreed to extend a landmark ceasefire with the government in December.
Authorities were on Wednesday deporting dozens of Somali refugees who had fled to Kenya from violence in lawless Somalia as Nairobi tightened security on the frontier. A day after Ethiopian helicopters missed their Islamist targets, instead bombing positions in Kenya, police escorted the refugees across the border into Somalia from a registration centre in Liboi.
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/ 30 November 2006
Chad urged the United Nations on Wednesday to remove tens of thousands of refugees from its volatile eastern border with Sudan, saying that would help improve security in the region. Unrest in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region is blamed for increased instability across a large area.
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/ 9 November 2006
Thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees fled their camp in rebel territory in the island’s east on Thursday, survivors said, a day after the army bombed the location killing dozens of civilians. Rights groups and diplomats voiced outrage at Wednesday’s attack, which the military said was in retaliation for rebel fire.
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/ 18 October 2006
The United States will accept 10 000 Burundian refugees from Tanzania from now until 2008. Tom Casey, a State Department spokesperson, said they were planning to offer resettlement to a group of Burundian refugees who have been in western camps in Tanzania, some of whom initially fled from Burundi in 1972.
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/ 10 October 2006
The United Nations said on Tuesday it would urgently move more than 40 000 Sudanese refugees deeper into Chad after weekend fighting at the border. Sudanese rebels opposed to a recent peace deal in Darfur clashed with government troops near Sudan’s border with Chad on Saturday, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said.