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Unwelcome: This abandoned school became a home for more than 200 refugees and asylum seekers, before they were evicted by the police and the entrance bricked up.

Refugees in Greece face rising hostility

A new government is getting ‘tough’ on immigration – but local organisations provide crucial support

As suffering for refugees taking this dangerous route to Europe continues to increase, no clear solution to the problem is in sight. (Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi)

Widespread torture and rape documented in Libya’s refugee camps

An increasing number of refugees are being tortured and raped in Libya, a new study has found.

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Kenya hosts first-ever TEDx event at refugee camp

Refugees share stories of resilience and creativity at a rare web-streaming event in Kakuma camp in northwest Kenya

Freedom denied: Political detainees in the Kanjedza prison camp in Nyasaland

Rohingya feel like prisoners in giant Bangladesh camp

In a small village on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh, some 520 000 more Rohingya have made camp in the latest eruption of violence.

The Western Saharan desert  may be inhospitable

For displaced Malians the Mauritanian desert is a haven

Despite the refugee camp’s depleting funds, refugees would rather be hungry than live in terror

Devastated: The earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia’s Sulawesi in September left more than 1?600 dead and 70?000 homeless. This woman lost her three children. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)

Refugees in Greece feel like ‘prisoners and hostages’

On Samos Island, some 2,000 asylum seekers are crammed in a refugee centre designed to accommodate only 700 people.

South Sudanese refugee children in northern Uganda

Safeguarding child refugees is everyone’s responsibility

Every day an average of 1000 children are fleeing conflict in South Sudan. There are presently 2.6-million refugees in Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya.

In Africa, refugees struggle to enjoy human rights and freedoms.

Food crisis hits Malawi’s refugees

Prohibited from working, refugees at the overcrowded Dzaleka camp have been surviving on minimal food rations due to donor cutbacks.

Court torture ruling shows up Mogoeng’s true colours

Concourt dismisses home affairs’s PE refugee office appeal

The refugee reception office in Port Elizabeth will have to be reopened, following a court ruling this week.

Removal of ‘foreigners’ from Tanzania met with outrage

Tanzania’s repatriation campaign has been criticised because several deportees have spent their entire lives in the East African country.

The army announced Monday it was ready to “receive and prepare” volunteer fighters.

Hundreds flee clashes in South Sudan refugee camp

Hundreds of refugees have fled fighting in South Sudan, as UN officials warn of "serious concerns" over the presence of armed groups in border camps.

Residents of a camp for the internally displaced named “Kihoto” sit outside their makeshift shelters.

Displaced Kenyans still live in fear since 2007 polls

In the run-up to Kenya’s elections in March, people still displaced have camped around the town of Nakuru in Rift Valley and fear renewed violence.

The Zata’ari refugee camp

Syrians struggle in cramped Jordanian refugee camp

The Zata’ari refugee camp, opened by the Jordanian government to house 500 people, has swollen to a population of more than 26 000.

MSF continues to work in Dadaab despite the abduction of two of their staff last year. MSF has launched a public report called Dadaab: Back to SquareOne.

Conditions worsen in Dadaab

MSF continues to work in Dadaab despite the abduction of two of their staff last year. MSF has launched a public report called Dadaab: Back to SquareOne.

Refugee tide swamps world’s biggest camp

The biggest refugee camp in the world is full, creating a humanitarian emergency that threatens thousands of malnourished children, MSF has warned.

Zambia’s last DRC refugees fear return home

Ten years after fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Muzungu Makoi says he is still haunted by the massacres and refuses to leave Zambia.

Invisible torture

Invisible torture

Increasingly, because of official pressure, refugees are going underground and making themselves more vulnerable.

Britain demands freedom for Sri Lanka war victims

Britain on Tuesday expressed disappointment with Sri Lanka’s handling of war-displaced civilians.

‘Here, I feel no fear, I don’t hear machine guns’

They come in their thousands, travelling across Somalia’s arid landscape to seek out a new life far from the violence that has ravaged their country.

Refugees evicted from Klerksoord camp, shacks burnt

City of Tshwane officials burnt shacks at Klerksoord refugee camp in Akasia, north of Pretoria, on Monday after evicting more than 300 people.