Latest Refugee Camp News
Somali mother sends children back to famine as camps overflow
A newly arrived Somali refugee collects non-consumable welfare items from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) compound at Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border August 3, 2011. …
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Floods in Northern Thailand Hit Burmese Refugee Camps
According to the Karen Refugee Committee (KRC), three rice stores with 2970 bags of rice were flooded, and 406 houses in the Mae La Oon and Mae Ra Ma Luang refugee camps, located in the Mae Sariang District in Mae Hong Son Province, were destroyed by …
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Cabinet delays talks on illegal construction in Beirut refugee camps
It remains unknown whether the Interior Ministry’s move Wednesday to establish a police station at the entrance of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in the north – part of which has been rebuilt since the army’s assault. A version of this article appeared …
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Israel Kills Two Palestinians as Raid in West Bank Refugee Camp Goes Awry
By ETHAN BRONNER KALANDIA, West Bank — Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in a refugee camp here early Monday after raiding several houses and being set upon by stone-throwing Palestinians. Witnesses and family members said the two were Ali Hassan …
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