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Refugee team competes in World Athletics Championships
3 Aug 2017 Five athletes heading from Kenya to the IAAF championships in London will be the first refugees to take part in the competition. -
Violence engulfs Congo's once-peaceful Kasaï region
14 Jul 2017 A father is among more than 1.3 million people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kasaï region fleeing a war that they never expected. -
In Kenya, UNHCR Special Envoy urges support for child refugees
20 Jun 2017 Angelina Jolie calls for reflection on the "pain and suffering" of refugee children during a visit to a centre for adolescent girls in Nairobi on World Refugee Day. -
UNHCR delivers food and relief items to DRC refugees in Angola
12 May 2017 Prosperous farmer is grateful to escape DRC violence that has caused over 20,000 to flee. -
Skin markings save farmer escaping DRC violence
5 May 2017 Tribal tattooing helps woman flee militia rampage in Kasai province, which has driven close to 20,000 people to seek refuge in neighbouring Angola. -
'Growing hopelessness' grips 'forgotten' Somali refugees, warns UNHCR
9 Jan 2017 UNHCR Special Envoy Mohamed Abdi Affey says nearly one million displaced Somalis face growing desperation as donors become fatigued. -
Uganda farming classes transform refugees into entrepreneurs
28 Oct 2016 Trained to expand their rice and pepper harvests, Congolese refugees in Uganda use earnings to start new businesses and become more self-reliant. -
Kenya's stateless Makonde people finally obtain papers
27 Oct 2016 They came as labourers from Mozambique in the 1930s, but only now are their descendants getting the identity papers they need to work, vote and study. -
Number fleeing Burundi to neighbouring countries tops 300,000
23 Sep 2016 Reception capacities in host countries Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are severely overstretched, UNHCR warns.