Refugee Camps

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.