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Before the fighting started in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Rose* and her family lived quiet, rural, lives. She and her husband had three children, a small piece of land on which to raise them and a stall on the main road from where they would sell fish.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, while visiting a sprawling, overcrowded camp complex in north-east Kenya, put a spotlight on the “dramatic” Somali refugee crisis and called on the international community for more help.

The publically funded International Community School is located in the city of Decatur in Dekalb County, Georgia, one of the largest refugee resettlement areas in the United States.

When children in the two refugee camps near here speak of their role models, Bollywood stars and Italian football players take a back seat to a tall, quiet and unassuming man they know as Pero.

Some of the world’s leading long-distance yacht sailors raised more than 2,000 euros at the weekend for the UN refugee agency’s operations to help survivors of the perilous Gulf of Aden crossing from the Horn of Africa to Yemen.

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie returned to Iraq on Thursday to offer support to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who remain displaced within their own country.

Adults make wars, while children first think it is a game, watch colourful explosions in the distance, draw pictures about it – and then suffer nightmares.

Mbila Bilele is one of 10,000 Congolese refugees and asylum-seekers who live in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura. The 34-year-old widow, who has applied for refugee status, and her three children reside in the poverty-stricken suburb of Kinama. Like many other urban refugees and asylum-seekers, she finds it a constant struggle to survive in the capital of one of the world’s poorest countries.

Will the dynamic, unusually outspoken Japanese UNHCR office worker Rika win the heart of the handsome American aid worker Ed? Or will he head back to the field to help refugees in Africa?

For many refugees in Asia, the Olympic spirit will continue to live on: Thanks to the generosity of Olympic athletes, tens of thousands of refugees will have new clothes to wear.