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![Syrian refugee Abdul outside his shop in Za'atari camp. Although […]](/20151216155042im_/http://www.unhcr.org/thumb1/538f18906.jpg)
Za'atari Refugees Put Their Entrepreneurial Skills to Work
In Za'atari refugee camp, near the Syrian border in northern Jordan, a bustling market made up of barber shops, video game arcades, mobile phone stores and more is thriving, serving a resourceful population of almost 100,000 forcibly displaced people. What started out as a few shops selling second-hand […]
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![Fourteen-year-old Hassan was shot when gunmen attacked his school […]](/20151216155042im_/http://www.unhcr.org/thumb1/53760c3c6.jpg)
Nigeria: The Casualties of Conflict
One year after the Nigerian government declared a state of emergency in the northern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, violence continues to displace people within Nigeria and to neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger, including some 22,000 Nigerian refugees. Civilians trapped at home face recurrent […]
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![1. Before meeting their mother, Moussa, 10, and 11-year-old Ibrahim […]](/20151216155042im_/http://www.unhcr.org/thumb1/537cac406.jpg)
A Central African Refugee's Reunion With Her Sons Brings Joy and Sorrow
The violence and conflict in the Central African Republic has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes since mid-December. Many have sought refuge in neighbouring countries, including 80,000 in Cameroon. During the trauma and confusion of flight, families often become separated. They […]
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![Raihanatou is aged three years but weighs on 6.7 kilogrammes […]](/20151216155042im_/http://www.unhcr.org/thumb1/537daf1e6.jpg)
Young and Struggling with Malnutrition: Child Refugees in Cameroon
Growing numbers of refugees from the Central African Republic have been arriving in Cameroon in a dreadful physical condition after spending weeks or months hiding in the bush, struggling to find food and water, and sleeping out in the open, unable to return to the homes they were forced to flee from. […]
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![DRC / Congolese refugees cross the Oubangui River from Zinga […]](/20151216155042im_/http://www.unhcr.org/thumb1/53720df16.jpg)
Batalimo to Batanga and Beyond: Congolese Return Home from CAR
Over the past month, almost 6,300 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have left the Batalimo camp in the troubled Central African Republic and returned voluntarily to their homes in Equateur province. Their decision to go back is a further sign of the gravity of the situation in […]
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