Iraqi traveller battling U.S. ban learns to "never surrender"
"Nashvillians fought to bring them home - and now we can show them the very best of Southern hospitality!" said a local refugee rights group
Nobel Peace Prize winners critique Trump's immigration policy
"We need to fight to find peace and civil justice. We want to end this discussion of violence, of racism" - Tawakkul Karman, 2011 Nobel Peace laureate
INTERVIEW-Uganda rules out military intervention in South Sudan
Uganda sent in troops when hostilities first broke out in 2013, move that Kampala says prevented ethnic slaughter on similar scale to 1994 Rwandan genocide.
African leaders cautiously back strategy to quit global court
Broad antipathy towards the court among Africans who feel the International Criminal Court unfairly targets them
Chad's foreign minister secures top post at African Union
Outgoing commissioner, South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has been criticized for not doing more to prevent conflict
FACTBOX - Five facts about refugee resettlement in the US
The Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Myanmar, Iraq and Somalia were the top countries of origin for refugees entering the US in 2016
Trump travel ban leaves Iraq's persecuted Yazidis in limbo
Over 100 Yazidis are waiting for their asylum applications to be processed
MSF says Trump's refugee ban puts Syrian lives at risk
"Slamming shut the doors to the United States of America, which has rigorously vetted refugees for years, is an attack on the basic accepted notion that people should be able to flee for their lives"
African Union to choose new leader, review Morocco membership
Vote more likely to expose differences over ICC and other issues than reaffirm continent's solidarity and common purpose
The global refugee crisis: Where do we go now?
Under Donald Trump's leadership, America is now once again entering a shameful period of choosing to fear refugees