Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya–For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of...

The refugee question is of paramount importance in Balkans - still. Beginning 1991, political upheavals – such as the breakup of Yugoslavia – displaced millions of...

It was sometime after 2 a.m. when gunfire and mortars startled Oqaba Mohammed out of sleep. She thanked God she was alive and quickly gathered her four children,...

Entire villages of people in north Yemen are being forced to flee by bands of Shia rebels as a sharp escalation of violence in the region prompts warnings that the...

Hundreds of thousands of refugees from the conflict in Somalia are being forced to live in woeful conditions, the aid agency Oxfam says. It says overcrowded and badly...

“They are cheerful-looking and photogenic, but close to all have a very sad story,” said Budi Soehardi, founder of the West Timor orphanage. “Some of...

A sprawling refugee tent city just blocks from the presidential palace has become a nagging reminder to residents of Colombia’s cosmopolitan capital that a brutal...

The military is allowing many residents of Pakistan’s Buner district to return to their homes – even as some villagers report ongoing Taliban presence and no...

Yesterday, was World Refugee Day. Refugees are created through wars and pure ethnic cleansing and such inhumanity has not ended in the 21st century. The tragedy of...

Pakistan says it is close to beating the Taliban in the Swat Valley, but battlefield success alone does not equal victory: Militant commanders are still at large, local...

While no one refutes that the LTTE is one of the most dangerous terrorist outfits presently active...and from the last 2 decades plus …they have entered into...

A lot of opinions have been written expressing both points of view. I for one, believe that it is a “combination of ingredients”, as complex as any relationship in...

Thousands of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have been successfully resettled in seven countries, including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark...

More my articles over Balkans and Caucasus one may find from my BalkanBlog Background of this post Bloggers Unite is an attempt to harness the power of the...

More than 11,000 refugees fled their homes in the interior villages of Lanao Del Norte where the army launched a mopping up operation against MILF groups after the...

Jolie, who has visited dozens of war-torn countries around the world, spoke passionately on behalf of the victims she’s met. “I’ve seen refugees...

Large-scale destruction of property and ongoing security concerns have stopped tens of thousands of people from returning to their homes after the Georgia-Russia...

KAMPALA (AFP) - Around 1,700 people fleeing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have sought refuge in neighbouring Uganda, the UN High Commissioner...

According to the Israeli central bureau of statistics there are about 100 thousand illegal foreign workers in Israel. Most of them are from Romania, Thailand, China and...

Kenya’s Internally displaced persons have once again started trickling back to their camps a few days after they went back to their homes due to fresh tension that...