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  • May 2008

    • S. Africa to Build Refugee Camps for Foreigners

      New York Times  |  May 28, 08 9:57 AM CDT

      S. Africa to Build Refugee Camps for Foreigners

      (Newser) - South Africa is planning to establish refugee camps for the foreigners driven from their homes by anti-immigrant violence, the New York Times reports. The shelters, dubbed “temporary places of safety,” would initially house the 11,000 people sheltered near police stations across the country, but could eventually be expanded to as many as 70,000. More »

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      South Africa  • refugee camp  • xenophobia  • Poverty in South Africa

    • Burma Relief Effort Belies Need

      Times (UK)  |  May 27, 08 4:48 PM CDT

      Burma Relief Effort Belies Need

      (Newser) - Burma's junta would have one believe it's got the situation under control in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, and even has a test-case diorama as evidence for foreign envoys, the Times of London reports. Sinkan refugee camp hosts 180 well-fed, healthy inhabitants in clean blue tents—while 10 minutes down the road, destitution, sickness and homelessness are everywhere. More »

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      Burma  • Myanmar  • Cyclone Nargis  • junta  • military junta  • dictatorship  • refugee camp  • food aid

  • April 2008
  • December 2007

    • Darfur's Displaced Battle Hunger, Disease, Raids

      Guardian (UK)  |  Dec 8, 07 1:05 PM CST

      Darfur's Displaced Battle Hunger, Disease, Raids

      (Newser) - "It is unsafe for me to go back home and it's not safe here," a resident of Abu Chok, a refugee camp in Darfur currently home to 54,000, tells the Guardian . Residents endure endemic malnutrition, malaria, and typhoid in hopes of security—the camp is 4 miles from a base for African Union forces—but find that government-sponsored attacks follow them everywhere. More »

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      United Nations  • Sudan  • Darfur  • genocide  • refugee  • malaria  • refugee camp  • Janjaweed  • Khartoum

  • October 2007

    • Thousands Flee Congo Fighting

      BBC  |  Oct 21, 07 5:46 AM CDT

      Thousands Flee Congo Fighting

      (Newser) - Thousands of refugees are fleeing a new outbreak of fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Renewed fighting has erupted between dissident Gen. Laurent Nkuda and local militias, as well as between Nkuda and regular government forces, following Nkuda's refusal to disarm his troops and reintegrate into the army. Aid agencies warn of a deepening crisis in the battle-ravaged land. More »

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      outbreak  • refugee  • Democratic Republic of Congo  • refugee camp  • Kivu

  • September 2007

    • UN Chief to Visit Darfur Camp

      BBC  |  Sep 5, 07 5:39 AM CDT

      UN Chief to Visit Darfur Camp

      (Newser) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit a refugee camp in Darfur to see for himself the plight of displaced people there and conditions facing UN peace keepers who will arrive next year. Ban, who's in Sudan on an official visit, is playing a double role, encouraging the Sudanese government's acceptance of peace keepers, while condemning violence in Darfur. More »

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      United Nations  • Darfur  • war crimes  • civil war  • Ban Ki-Moon  • African Union  • refugee camp  • peacekeeping force

    • Top Terror Leader Killed

      CNN  |  Sep 4, 07 2:57 AM CDT

      Top Terror Leader Killed

      (Newser) - Islamic militant leader Shaker al-Abssi, wanted for the murder of a US diplomat in Jordan, was killed by Lebanese troops in the bloody climax of the battle for the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli. Al-Abssi was one of 39 militants killed by Lebanese special forces Sunday after a three-month siege, CNN reports More »

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      al-Qaeda  • terrorist  • Lebanon  • refugee camp  • Fatah al Islam  • Nahr al Bared  • Shaker al Abssi

    • Lebanese Rout Militants in Camp

      Times (UK)  |  Sep 3, 07 3:30 AM CDT

      Lebanese Rout Militants in Camp

      (Newser) - Jubilant Lebanese celebrated with soldiers yesterday after they finally wrested control of a besieged Palestinian refugee camp from an al-Qaeda ally, Fatah al-Islam. Lebanese special forces attacked strongholds that remained inside the ruins of the Nahr al-Bared camp near Tripoli after nearly three months of fighting, reports the London Times . More »

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      al-Qaeda  • Syria  • Lebanon  • refugee camp  • Fatah al Islam  • Nahr al Bared  • Fouad Siniora  • Tripoli

  • August 2007
  • July 2007

    • Lebanese Assault on Refugee Camp Intensifies

      Associated Press  |  Jul 13, 07 1:34 PM CDT

      Lebanese Assault on Refugee Camp Intensifies

      (Newser) - Lebanon is denying that its latest round of strikes on a Palestinian refugee camp constitute the final showdown with militants holed up inside, the AP reports. Militants in the densely packed warren of buildings exchanged heavy fire with the army encircling them today and shot nine rockets into nearby villages, orange groves and vineyards. More »

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      Lebanon  • refugee camp

  • June 2007
  • May 2007