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UNHCR urges dialogue to end herder, farmer clashes in Nigeria
Clashes have left several hundred people dead and tens of thousands displaced this year in fertile regions of Nigeria.
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Workshop teaches Tuareg artisans new skills in exile
A hands-on workshop in Burkina Faso is helping Malian refugees to develop new products and the business skills to tap international markets.
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Syrian refugee carries Olympic torch through Brasilia
Twelve-year-old Syrian schoolgirl Hanan bore the Olympic flame on the first stage of its relay across Brazil to the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Rio on August 5.
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Displaced villagers return home in Myanmar's Rakhine state
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Slovakia receives 37 Somalis from camps in Eritrea
UNHCR has helped resettle a total of 281 Somali refugees so far this year
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Horrified shipwreck survivors watched as hundreds drowned
Refugees describe desperate efforts to rescue family members after overcrowded boat overturned in the Mediterranean
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Cate Blanchett appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
The actor joins the UN Refugee Agency at a time of unprecedented crisis as nearly 60 million people are displaced worldwide.
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Despite booby traps, Iraqis risk all on return to Ramadi
Iraq's third-largest city has not been declared cleared by the government and dozens of returnees have been killed by IEDs.
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Sahrawi women to get behind the wheel at new driving school
In a push to empower young women, Sahrawi sisters plan to open an all-female driving school later this year in remote Dakhla camp, Algeria.