By Kari Barber/Prince Collins Dakar, Monrovia 13 June 2007 Hundreds of thousands of Liberian refugees, displaced by more than a decade of civil war, have returned to the country. For many, coming home offers few opportunities as the economy struggles...
By Noel King Khartoum 06 June 2007 Officials of the United Nations and the International Organization for Migration, in coordination with the Sudanese government, say they have returned 100,000 former refugees and internally displaced persons to sout...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 29 May 2007 Refugees in Nepal trying to make their way back home to Bhutan via India have clashed with Indian border troops. Casualties are reported on both sides after Indian forces opened fire. VOA's Steve Herman reports f...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Dili, East Timor 07 April 2007 An East Timorese boy plays with a dog at a refugee camp on the grounds of a church in Dili, 07 Apr 2007 Nearly 40,000 people are living in makeshift refugee camps in East Timor, afraid to return...
By Reza Allahyari Iraq-Jordon border 05 March 2007 watch Refugee report The violence in Iraq has displaced thousands of people across the country. For one group of Iranian Kurds, this journey has led them to the Iraqi border with Jordan where they h...
By Jeff Swicord Amman, Jordan 15 February 2007 watch Iraq Refugee report Iraqi refugees now in Jordan The United States has announced plans to receive 7,000 Iraqi refugees during the next eight months -- a significant increase from the less than 500...
By David Gollust Washington 14 February 2007 The Bush administration said Wednesday it plans to accept at least 7,000 Iraqi refugees for resettlement in the United States this year, and to step up funding to the U.N. refugee agency. The announcement...
By Sonja Pace Damascus 06 February 2007 Some hundreds Iraqi refugees in Syria stage a protest against new visa regulations before offices of UNHCR, 5 Feb 2007 The United Nations estimates nearly one million Iraqis have fled violence in their homeland...
By Catherine Maddux Washington 17 October 2006 The United States says it will accept around 10,000 Burundian refugees from Tanzania, many of whom have lived outside their home country for more than three decades. Some of the Burundians being conside...
By Patricia Nunan Kantale, Sri Lanka 02 October 2006 watch Sri Lanka refugee report The United Nations says as many as 200,000 people in northern and eastern Sri Lanka have been displaced in recent weeks by fighting between the Tamil Tiger rebels an...