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Angelina Jolie and UNHCR chief Guterres shocked at Mediterranean high seas tragedy
6 Apr 2011 UNHCR chief Guterres and Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie shocked at reported death by drowning of more than 200 people fleeing Libya by boat. -
Educating Hassina: From a humble classroom, big dreams
27 Oct 2010 In the refugee camps of eastern Sudan, thousands of refugee children are receiving primary education in UNHCR-funded schools. -
UNHCR condemns forced return of 1,700 Rwandans from Uganda
16 Jul 2010 UNHCR condemns the forced return of some 1,700 Rwandans from Uganda earlier this week. Two men died after jumping off trucks taking them to Rwanda. -
Thousands flee, many killed as Lord's Resistance Army steps up attacks
14 May 2010 UNHCR is alarmed at reports of a rise in the frequency and brutality of attacks by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army against civilians in three African countries. -
World Cup-bound Norwegian cyclist teaches Eritrean refugees about the internet
16 Mar 2010 When Bjorn Heidenstrom met pupils at the Eritrean Refugee School in Khartoum, he was so impressed he decided to help bring the internet into their classrooms. -
Water, water everywhere, but not all of it fit to drink for returnees in northern Uganda
4 Nov 2009 UNHCR and its partners have been building protected water sources in northern Uganda to help ensure the sustainable return of thousands of people to their homes. -
Ugandan rebel army, attacking inside Congo, drives 125,000 from their homes
28 Aug 2009 The latest brutal attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Orientale Province bring to 540,000 the number uprooted in far north-eastern DRC in the last year. -
Djibouti : refugees grasp security in their hands with new ID cards
25 Aug 2009 A UNHCR program to issue plastic ID cards to some 10,000 refugees in Djibouti should enhance their protection and rights. -
More than 1.4 million internally displaced Ugandans head home since 2006
27 Jul 2009 Since relative peace returned to northern Uganda in 2006 after more than two decades of conflict, some 80 percent of the internally displaced civilians have returned home.