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<title><![CDATA[UN refugee agency urgently reinforcing staff and resources for Mali ]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR approves deployment of dozens of specialists. Its planning basis allows for additional displacement of up to 300,000 people inside Mali and 407,000 refugees. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR completes repatriation of 155,000 Liberians]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The voluntary repatriation programme began in 2004 after peace was restored and officially concluded 23 years after civil war first broke out in Liberia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 4 Jan 2013 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Modern technology helps meet the needs of refugees in South Sudan]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[From digital fingerprinting and GPS mapping of individuals to telephone texting networks, UNHCR is finding new ways to improve help for refugees.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR moves Malian refugees to safer areas of Burkina Faso]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Goudebou camp is safer and it is easier to provide protection, shelter, general assistance and access to basic services than at camps near the border.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Helping young refugees in South Sudan find physical and emotional security]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Years of fighting and exposure to war have had a dramatic impact on communities in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, particularly on the children.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 5 Dec 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR helps mediate South Sudan cattle grazing dispute]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[While refugees arriving from Sudan require UNHCR's intervention, their livestock too increasingly require protection in South Sudan's Maban County.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More than 6,000 forcibly displaced Congolese receive food aid]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Food was distributed to 2,055 families, or 6,165 people. It included cornflour, peas, vegetable oil and salt. People were also given soap and jerry cans.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR airlifts 3,500 tents for forcibly displaced in Myanmar]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The tents were sent from Dubai for victims of recent violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state. They will be sufficient to provide shelter for 17,500 people. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR tackles problem of shelter in Yemen refugee camp]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[After four years living in a tent, Faduma and her children are among the families who have moved into 300 newly built houses]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reaching out bring results for UNHCR in Malawi refugee camp]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Since February, multifunctional UNHCR-led teams have been paying weekly visits to different zones of Dzaleka camp, finding out need and problems. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 8 Nov 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR helps resolve land issues in Sri Lanka's north ]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[New challenges involving land and property are emerging in Sri Lanka as hundreds of thousands of displaced people return home.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Surviving in Niamey: Malian refugees struggle to get by in the big city ]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[There are some 6,000 urban refugees in the Niger capital, Niamey. UNHCR hopes that a registration exercise will help the agency pinpoint their needs.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Soprano Barbara Hendricks marks 25 years of service to UNHCR]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and staff pay tribute to acclaimed soprano Barbara Hendricks for her quarter-of-a-century of service to UNHCR and the cause of refugees worldwide.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR distributes biometric ID cards to refugees in Senegal]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR and the Senegalese government recently launched a campaign to provide biometric ID cards to some 19,000 refugees by year's end.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR steps up winter preparations for tens of thousands of Syrians]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR budgets US$64 million to help tens of thousands of Syrian internally displaced and refugees across the region survive the winter months. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR starts moving Central African Republic refugees from flooded camps in Chad]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The UNHCR operation began this week and has moved hundreds of the 17,000 refugees in Yaroungou and Moula camps to a new site.
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR issues guidelines on protection of male rape victims ]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The guidelines will help UNHCR and other aid agencies to identify and support male victims of sexual violence in displacement situations. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 8 Oct 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More than 25,000 refugees return home from Republic of Congo since May]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR plans to ferry a further 24,000 refugees, mostly from Equateur province, across the Oubangui River to the DRC by year's end, plus 32,000 next year.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Oct 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR responds strongly to jaundice, hepatitis outbreaks in Dadaab]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[As of last week, 223 cases of acute jaundice were reported across all five camps in Dadaab. Four fatalities have been confirmed]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR concerned at detention of asylum-seekers, releases new guidelines]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The guidelines represent UNHCR policy and are intended as advice for governments and other bodies making decisions on detaining people.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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