News from category: Refugees/IDPs
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Children share beds in the pediatric ward due to overcrowding
KYAKA II REFUGEE CAMP, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) – Inadequate healthcare is just one of many challenges facing the 16,200 refugees in this …
Photo: Aminu Abubakar/IRIN
Displaced children living in a makeshift camp in Jos North who will be targeted for polio vaccinations from 13-16 March (file photo)
DAKAR, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) – A polio vaccination campaign in …
Photo: Jane Some/IRIN
Congolese refugees at Base Camp II in the Nakivale settlement: At least 45,000 Congolese live in Nakivale and Kyaka II refugee settlements
NAKIVALE, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – With at least 67,000 refugees …
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Landslide-displaced people receive bottled water at Bukalasi, eastern Uganda
BUKALASI , 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – Rose Nakhayetse is lucky to be alive, but her ordeal is far from over. Having narrowly …
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From being displaced, Abdullahi Aden Ali is now an established businessman in Bosasso
BOSASSO, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) – Abdullahi Aden Ali, 32, arrived in Bosasso, commercial capital of the autonomous region of …
Photo: Jane Some/IRIN
A refugee peels a papyrus reed, one of the initial stages in the production of the Makapads sanitary pads at Kyaka II refugee settlement, southwestern Uganda
KYAKA II, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) – …
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Mass graves dug in Jos after the last wave of violence in January 2010 (file photo)
ABUJA, 8 March 2010 (IRIN) – Hundreds of people in the city of Jos, 350km northeast of …
NAIROBI, 5 March 2010 (IRIN) – Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. This feature was launched on 18 July, but will display the …
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Poll worker in Togo’s 2010 presidential election in the capital, Lomé, on voting day
LOMÉ, 4 March 2010 (IRIN) – As up to 3.2 million Togolese cast their ballots in the presidential …
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Observers in place for 4 March presidential election
LOMÉ, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) – More than 3,000 local election observers, 6,000 soldiers, and representatives of international election transparency watchdog groups are scattered across …
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KHARTOUM, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) – Weeks of fighting in parts of Darfur have raised concern over the plight of civilians, as …
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HARGEISA , 3 March 2010 (IRIN) – Around 1,000 families have been displaced by flooding after heavy rains in an area straddling the border between Ethiopia and the self-declared independent republic of …
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A boy pokes his head through a hole in the tarpaulin that acts as the wall of his classroom in an IDP camp in Minova, DRC (file photo)
GOMA, 1 March 2010 (IRIN) …
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Zimbabweans buying petrol in Botswana
GABORONE, 1 March 2010 (IRIN) – Botswana is adopting a two-pronged approach to tackle abuse of its immigration system by increasing the sophistication of travel documents, visas and …
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A boy pokes his head through a hole in the tarpaulin that acts as the wall of his classroom in an IDP camp in Minova, DRC (file photo)
GOMA, 1 March 2010 (IRIN) …
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Lindela Repatriation Centre
JOHANNESBURG , 26 February 2010 (IRIN) – South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the Department of Home Affairs on 24 February 2010 to immediately release an Ethiopian asylum seeker …
