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Rescue efforts focus on survivors of Lampedusa boat tragedy as search suspended
4 Oct 2013 Reports from Lampedusa Island say there are 155 survivors, all but one of whom is Eritrean. A total 110 bodies were recovered before the search was suspended. -
UNHCR shocked as boat tragedy leaves scores dead off Italian coast
3 Oct 2013 UNHCR chief shocked at the news of a boat tragedy off the Italian island of Lampedusa, which is reported to have claimed at least 82 lives. -
UNHCR seeks additional $21.4 million to help Congolese refugees in Uganda
20 Sep 2013 The extra funding is needed largely to help people who have flooded into Uganda's Bundibugyo district to escape conflict in North Kivu province since July. -
Disability is not inability - refugee turns entrepreneur hours after fleeing
31 Jul 2013 All it takes is a shady tree and a charcoal-heated soldering iron, and a Congolese refugee repairman already is making money in Uganda. -
UNHCR concerned about civilians amid continued instability in North Kivu
23 Jul 2013 Amid sporadic fighting in Democratic Republic of the Congo, relatively few refugees crossed to Uganda, though more could be trying to flee. -
UNHCR struggles to keep up with arriving Congolese refugees
19 Jul 2013 Some 15,500 refugees have been transferred away from unsafe border area to the Bubukwanga transit centre, where there are protection and other services. -
Born in Exile: Uganda's newest refugee transit centre delivers its first baby
19 Jul 2013 Baby Andrea's mother Monica fled from fighting in Democratic Republic of the Congo; tells of girls being grabbed and dragged off into the forest by assailants. -
14,000 Congolese refugees move to Ugandan transit centre as tensions rise with locals
18 Jul 2013 The transit centre was opened at the weekend to help cope with an influx of almost 70,000 Congolese refugees fleeing fighting across the border in North Kivu province. -
UNHCR helps traumatized children who fled DR Congo alone
17 Jul 2013 The tens of thousands of Congolese who fled to Uganda in the past week include one very vulnerable group – unaccompanied children like Jean, an orphan.