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More than 8,000 flee fresh fighting in Somalia capital
25 Apr 2008 Fresh fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, forces an estimated 8,200 people to flee the beleaguered coastal city. -
Q&A: Ambush in Somalia fails to deter Austrian aid worker
25 Apr 2008 Katharina Wehrstein was recently evacuated from Somalia after surviving an ambush while working for UNHCR. She discusses the attack and her work. -
Q&A: A scholarship gives hope to a Somali refugee in Yemen
11 Apr 2008 A Somali dental student in Yemen has come a long way since making the perilous Gulf of Aden crossing from Somalia as a child. The 25-year-old refugee has been given hope for his future by a Howard G. Buffett Foundation scholarship. -
UNHCR condemns attack on vehicle in Somalia's Puntland region
8 Apr 2008 UNHCR condemns the ambush of one if its vehicles in Somalia's Puntland and says failure to punish those responsible could affect its operations in the region. -
Somali refugee community takes lead in local integration in South Africa
19 Mar 2008 Faced with growing antagonism, a Somali refugee community in South Africa is taking the lead in seeking local integration -
Massive rise this year in numbers crossing Gulf of Aden
4 Mar 2008 Smugglers ferried almost 9,000 people across the Gulf of Aden in the first two month of this year, almost treble the figure for the same period in 2007. -
A Somali girl's childhood ends in shelling, burns and terrible scars
21 Feb 2008 A teenage Somali refugee disfigured by artillery fire desperately needs help for her injuries. But the war victim wonders if the struggle is worth it. -
Expatriate Somalis return to help rebuild Puntland
8 Feb 2008 Somalis from the diaspora begin to return to the north-eastern Somali region of Puntland to help rebuild their country -
Somali refugee wins US State Department award for courage
31 Jan 2008 Somali refugee wins US State Department award for her courage in fighting for the rights of women and girls in a Kenyan refugee camp.