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“Is that reasonable that all of them would die at night?” That’s how Afghanistan’s top disaster response official responded when asked about the nearly two dozen children who have frozen to death in IDP camps in Kabul over the past month.
I just concluded a Google Hangout with WFP spokesperson Judith Schuler who’s currently in Asosa, Ethiopia monitoring the influx of refugees from across the border in South Sudan
Every six months, the UN Refugee Agency publishes statistics on the number of people who apply for asylum in industrialized countries. The twice yearly "Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries" is something of a proxy for trends in global conflict, crises and displacement.
East Africa is suffering its worst drought in 60 years and millions are streaming towards already crowded refugee camps. Al Shabaab has become an important interlocutor for the provision of humanitarian aid.
A new agreement between the governing council in Benghazi and the Italian government raises the prospect that refugees seeking asylum will be forced back to Libya.
A harrowing new report from Refugees International shows that insurgent attacks in Afghanistan are on the rise and the number of displaced Afghan's has skyrocketed over the past year.
