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Q&A: Norwegian bikes to South Africa for refugee awareness in run-up to World Cup
28 Oct 2009 Bjorn Heidenstrom hopes to display the world's largest football shirt at the World Cup finals in South Africa next year after biking through Europe and Africa to raise awareness about refugees. -
Some 30,000 expelled Angolans in "dire" need of assistance
20 Oct 2009 Tens of thousands of Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. They include refugees. -
UNHCR and Rwanda seek enduring solution for protracted refugee situation
20 Oct 2009 UNHCR and Rwandan government pledge to work together to resolve the African country’s protracted refugee situation in the next two years. -
UNHCR chief urges the world not to forget the displaced in eastern Congo
16 Oct 2009 High Commissioner António Guterres compares Congolese displacement crisis to 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; urges international community to help. -
Clowns bring smiles and inspiration to displaced people in eastern Congo
7 Oct 2009 Clowns without Borders bring smiles and a message to relieve the suffering among the displaced in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. -
UNHCR advises refugees in Burundi against returning to eastern Congo
6 Oct 2009 UNHCR advises some 2,300 Congolese refugees at a camp in central Burundi to shelve plans to return this week to eastern Congo because of conflict in the area. -
Repatriation of 1972 Burundian Refugees hits 50,000 Mark
16 Sep 2009 The repatriation from special settlements in western Tanzania of refugees who fled Burundi more than three decades ago hits the 50,000 mark. -
Ugandan rebel army, attacking inside Congo, drives 125,000 from their homes
28 Aug 2009 The latest brutal attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Orientale Province bring to 540,000 the number uprooted in far north-eastern DRC in the last year. -
Hillary Clinton condemns impunity in eastern Congo
11 Aug 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks out strongly against sexual violence in the Congo while meeting displaced.