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    Global forced displacement tops 50 million for first time since World War II - UNHCR Report

    Fri, 20 Jun 2014 03:52 AM

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    In Ethiopia: The Plight Of South Sudanese Refugees Up Close And Painful

    Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:47 PM

    As field monitor for WFP Ethiopia's Gambella office, Pereleth Othieing is putting in marathon hours in the refugee camps and border points of western Ethiopia. His task: making sure the hundreds of South Sudanese refugees pouring into the country daily receive the food and nutritional assistance they desperately need. So far, nearly 150,000 South Sudanese have sought asylum in western Ethiopia, since conflict erupted in their homeland in December, 2013. 

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    Resolve conflicts or face surge in life-long refugees worldwide, warns UNHCR Special Envoy

    Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:13 PM

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    Oxford professor slams refugee 'warehousing,' calls for more freedom

    Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:02 AM

    Instead of languishing in camps for years, refugees should be allowed to work and trade, report says

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    Iraqi Shiite women shout slogans supporting the Iraqi army in Basra

    Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:23 PM

    Iraqi Shiite women shout slogans supporting the Iraqi army in Basra, southeast of Baghdad June 19, 2014. Iraqi government forces battled Sunni rebels for control of the country's biggest refinery on Thursday as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki waited for a U.S. response to an appeal for air strikes to beat back the threat to Baghdad. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

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    New Humanitarian Crises Mark This Year's World Refugee Day

    Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:57 PM

    ROME - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) marks another sombre World Refugee Day tomorrow (20 June) as renewed violence in Iraq has driven half a million people from their homes to join an estimated 45.2 million people forcibly displaced around the world, according the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

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    South Sudanese Refugees Worry About Future

    Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:04 AM

    The humanitarian crisis in South Sudan is becoming a regional tragedy. Tens of thousands have fled South Sudan, many to Ethiopia which hosts the largest number of South Sudanese refugees. Elisabeth Nyapal from Upper Nile State describes how she fled because of the conflict and that there is no food or water back home. WFP is providing food assistance with High Energy Biscuits, paying particular attention to children, pregnant women and the malnourished. What happens next is a question not just for these South Sudan refugees, but also for the newest generation of the world's newest country.

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    Refugees Welcome WFP's Cash Option in Uganda

    Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:57 PM

    Despite it being a damp and cloudy day, WFP brought sunshine to the refugee settlement in Kiryandongo recently as they began their first cash distributions.  WFP's objective in giving a cash option is to empower the refugees in meeting their families' food and nutrition needs.  

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    Mothers displaced by the fighting hold their malnourished babies in front of a nutrition centre ran by CARE at the U.N. base in Bentiu

    Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:40 AM

    Mothers displaced by the fighting hold their malnourished babies in front of a nutrition centre ran by CARE at the U.N. base in Bentiu, Unity State, June 18, 2014. Around 39,000 people have found shelter in the UN base in Bentiu. About 1.5 million people have been displaced, including 378,000 who fled to neighbouring countries according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY HEALTH)

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    U.N. peacekeeper looks out of a window during a patrol at a mosque where over 200 people were reportedly killed in April, in Bentiu

    Thu, 19 Jun 2014 03:13 AM

    A U.N. peacekeeper looks out of a window during a patrol at a mosque where over 200 people were reportedly killed in April, in Bentiu, Unity State, June 18, 2014. Around 39,000 people have found shelter in the UN base in Bentiu. About 1.5 million people have been displaced, including 378,000 who fled to neighbouring countries according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS RELIGION)

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