11 days ago by bibi

Life as a refugee cannot be easy, imagine being displaced and uprooted from your home and to have to leave everything that you know, or lose your life. That is the case for thousands in the Central African Republic. A little known country by the rest of the world, the Central African Republic is ric ...

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13 days ago

blog.wired.com In tough circumstances, sometimes all you need is hope, but other times you need a blow-up survival shelter featuring a bed, a couch, freeze-dried food, a 50-gallon water bladder, a first-aid kit, a radio, and a cookstove. And the latter is exactly what the “Life Cube” from startup In ...

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32 days ago by nickbrooks

Dust storm, Sahrawi refugee camps My friend and colleague Bachir sent me this photo of a dust storm engulfing one of the Sahrawi refugee camps located around the Algerian town of Tindouf. The event occurred on 9 October between 17:0 and 19:00, and arrived from the northeast, heading southeast. The s ...

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35 days ago by dietvorst

Hepatitis E is on the increase in Uganda’s northern district of Pader, where it has claimed scores of lives and infected thousands in the past year, officials said. Since May, there have been 55 new infections and seven deaths in Pader, according to Angelo Luganya, a health official in Pader. [...] ...

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38 days ago by warvictims

by The Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan:Nearly 190,000 people are reported to have fled fighting between Pakistani troops and Taliban and al-Qaida fighters near the border with Afghanistan, the United Nations said Tuesday. The U.N.’s refugee agency said that number included more than 20,000 Paki ...

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48 days ago by dermattes

Mark Brecke is an independent filmmaker and documentary photographer. Covering ten years and three continents (Asia, Africa, and Europe), his work documents the stories of people victimized by war, ethnic conflict, and genocide. The focus of Mark’s recent work is on the crisis in the Darfur region o ...

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51 days ago by antieviction

PEARLIE JOUBERT Oct 02 2008 06:00 Source: Mail & Guardian The head of the Blue Waters refugee camp outside Muizenberg, Western Cape, accused the government this week of deliberately starving out camp inmates — as the home affairs department prepares to deport most of them. After speaking to the Mail ...

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56 days ago by warvictims

By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER The Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Thousands of confused, traumatized Somalis have fled the capital this week in some of the worst fighting in 19 months of insurgency, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday. At least 15,000 people have been chased from their homes in Mogadishu, sa ...

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57 days ago by admin

Social Media News Release Your click could mean $1.5 million for malnourished children around the world. Quicklinks: News Facts | About International Medical Corps | Help International Medical Corps | Contacts | Multimedia Elements | Social Media | Tags International Medical Corps Matched With Top 2 ...

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58 days ago by warvictims

by Abdi Sheikh and Abdi Mohamed REUTERS MOGADISHU, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents attacked an African peacekeeping base in Mogadishu, leaving 11 civilians dead as residents again took the brunt, witnesses said on Wednesday. The violence, extreme even by the standards of Somalia’s 17-year ci ...

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