Skirmishes between forces continue despite government calls for peace in a region already torn apart by ethnic conflicts
A new government is getting ‘tough’ on immigration – but local organisations provide crucial support
An increasing number of refugees are being tortured and raped in Libya, a new study has found.
Refugees share stories of resilience and creativity at a rare web-streaming event in Kakuma camp in northwest Kenya
In a small village on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh, some 520 000 more Rohingya have made camp in the latest eruption of violence.
Despite the refugee camp’s depleting funds, refugees would rather be hungry than live in terror
On Samos Island, some 2,000 asylum seekers are crammed in a refugee centre designed to accommodate only 700 people.
Every day an average of 1000 children are fleeing conflict in South Sudan. There are presently 2.6-million refugees in Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Prohibited from working, refugees at the overcrowded Dzaleka camp have been surviving on minimal food rations due to donor cutbacks.
The refugee reception office in Port Elizabeth will have to be reopened, following a court ruling this week.
Tanzania’s repatriation campaign has been criticised because several deportees have spent their entire lives in the East African country.
Hundreds of refugees have fled fighting in South Sudan, as UN officials warn of "serious concerns" over the presence of armed groups in border camps.
In the run-up to Kenya’s elections in March, people still displaced have camped around the town of Nakuru in Rift Valley and fear renewed violence.
The Zata’ari refugee camp, opened by the Jordanian government to house 500 people, has swollen to a population of more than 26 000.
MSF continues to work in Dadaab despite the abduction of two of their staff last year. MSF has launched a public report called Dadaab: Back to SquareOne.
The biggest refugee camp in the world is full, creating a humanitarian emergency that threatens thousands of malnourished children, MSF has warned.
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.
Increasingly, because of official pressure, refugees are going underground and making themselves more vulnerable.
Britain on Tuesday expressed disappointment with Sri Lanka’s handling of war-displaced civilians.
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.
City of Tshwane officials burnt shacks at Klerksoord refugee camp in Akasia, north of Pretoria, on Monday after evicting more than 300 people.
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/ 26 January 2009
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.
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/ 4 December 2008
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.
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/ 29 November 2008
Baby formula and food are being smuggled into the Bluewaters refugee camp after volunteers were stopped from bringing supplies to the 600 refugees.
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/ 7 November 2008
A celebrity photographer turns his lens on survivors of the eastern Congo conflict, now living in refugee camps.
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/ 31 October 2008
Despite the obvious need for refugee camps, government plans to close them down this Friday, reports Pearlie Joubert.
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/ 17 October 2008
The City of Cape Town will close down one of four remaining xenophobia shelters in the province on Friday, a spokesperson said.
Authorities have agreed to hold back on the closure of camps still housing xenophobia refugees in Cape Town, the Aids Law Project said on Wednesday.
Pearlie Joubert reports the heart-wrenching tale of a Somalian family who lost six members in SA — where they fled for a better life.
Despite being intimidated by shadowy figures, a refugee camp coordinator speaks out about shocking conditions.
The Gauteng provincial government has closed down the refugee shelter in Glenanda, on Rifle Range Road south of Johannesburg.
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/ 16 September 2008
The Constitutional Court will hear further arguments on November 20 on the fate of Gauteng’s shelters for people displaced by xenophobic violence.