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In Afghanistan, a fortunate accident | StarTribune.com
Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune

A stranger thrust his limp, sore-covered infant toward Dina Fesler. "Take him. Please," he said. "I don't know what else to do." Far from the debate here at home over escalating U.S.

Christian refugees excluded from government reconstruction fund
Source: asianews.it

Christian activists denounce disparity in treatment for victims of the war between the army and the Taliban. Only Muslim families, registered in government centres, receive funding. Christians helped by relatives and friends, because chased from refugee camps and deprived of aid.

More than 280,000 Sri Lankan Refugees Could Be Held in Camps for up to Two Years
Source: Telegraph

Sri Lanka's government claims it may be necessary to keep "280,000 refugees who fled the conflict zone" within "overcrowded camps for up to two years."

17 yr-old boy sends 420 stoves to Darfur. Stoves help keep Darfur's women out of harm's way
Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In Sudan's Darfur region, where violence and genocide are rampant, women risk their lives every day performing tasks as seemingly mundane as seeking out firewood. The $30 stoves help keep Darfur's women safe by reducing their time away from the refugee camps.

A Radical Islamist Takeover Drives the Young From Somalia - washingtonpost.com
Source: The Washington Post

The scenario now unfolding in Somalia is the one a U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion nearly two years ago had been intended to thwart: a takeover by radical Islamists.

Children have Died of Hunger in Refugee Camps in Mindanao
Source: INQUIRER.net Breaking News

Mindanao Bureau First Posted 17:31:00 10/04/2008 DAVAO CITY, Philippines -- Reports that children have died of hunger in refugee camps in Mindanao have prompted the World Food Program to ship about 40 tons of high-energy and highly-nutritious biscuits to the camps.

Simple Sun-Cookers Take Off In Darfur, Grass-Roots Giving In U.S. Helps Women In Refugee Camps
Source: CBS News

When Harvard law student Jesse Gabriel organized a "Dinner for Darfur" fundraiser in April, he was amazed that 17 student groups got together and raised $16,000 in one night.

Jenin comes to Lebanon. So where is the outcry?
Source: Canada.com

Last week, the Lebanese army attacked a squalid Palestinian refugee camp that's become infested with Islamist suicide terrorists and guerilla fighters. On May 20, government troops surrounded the camp, with tanks and artillery pieces shelling it at close range.

Latest Franklin Lamb on Lebanon: "Its the US Airbase, Stupid!"
Source: peoplesgeography.com

In his most recent piece, Dr. Franklin Lamb expounds further upon the proposed US airbase, previously broached, as the rationale for the recent terrible covert operations that saw dozens of Palestinians and Lebanese Army soldiers die.

Dozens Slain as Lebanese Army Fights Islamists
Source: The New York Times

The confrontation between the Lebanese Army and Islamic militants at a Palestinian refugee camp continued unabated today, after an eruption of violence on Sunday that claimed at least 39 lives and left dozens injured. Lebanese troops shelled locations within the Nahr al Bared ca …

Flash Report from CAR
Source: Yahoo! News

Melissa Winkler with the International Rescue committee has created a slideshow of photographs taken within a Central African Republice village.

Angelina Jolie - (Almost) In Darfur
Source: The Washington Post

BAHAI, Chad -- Here, at this refugee camp on the border of Sudan, nothing separates us from Darfur but a small stretch of desert and a line on a map. All the same, it's a line I can't cross.

Life on the Burma-Thai border
Source: BBC News

In the first of a series of articles from the Thai-Burma border, the BBC's Kate McGeown looks at the thousands of political and economic migrants who flee Burma for Thailand every year.

For Nine Million Refugee Youth, A Chance to Learn and Play
Source: en.news2u.net

-- Nine million faces. Nine million names. Nine million stories. They are the world's forgotten refugee youth.

International community needs to do more for Liberia returnees, UNHCR chief
Source: alertnet.org

-- The international community should do more to assist returning Liberian refugees if peace is to take root there, said Antonio Guterres top official of the UN's refugee agency UNHCR while visiting neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire.

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