"I walked for three days through the jungle to get here."
Haitians who sought opportunity in the Dominican Republic are returning home after not finding it. Ross Velton reports.
As clashes continued in Tripoli Monday, a boat was on its way to the Libyan capital to evacuate foreign nationals stranded there, the International Organization for Migration said.
NATO aircraft launched more than a dozen strikes on the Libyan capital early Tuesday, and smoke could be seen rising from the area near Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's Bab-al-Azizia compound in Tripoli.
Somali migrant worker Ibrahim Abdi has cheated death twice trying to get from north Africa to Europe.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited a small Mediterranean island Saturday to press home his message that European countries must help deal with a "human tsunami" of North African migrants.
An estimated 100 or more would-be North African migrants remained missing Wednesday, a day after the boat they were in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said. The incident is the latest of a number of tragic ends in what has become a steady flow of people who set sail from Tunisia to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The United Nations refugee agency reported disturbing accounts of violence and persecution of sub-Saharan Africans within Libya Tuesday, urging a recognition of their particular vulnerability in the midst of civil war.
As soon as refugees fleeing unrest in Libya began flooding over the border into Tunisia, Ali Ben Issi signed up as a volunteer to help them.
The ENS Halayab prepared to sail Wednesday from the Tunisian port town of Zarzis, carrying 1,200 Egyptians back home.
Rain associated with Tropical Storm Tomas began falling on Haiti on Thursday afternoon as aid agencies scrambled to move as many people as possible into storm shelters.
Officials in Haiti on Saturday moved the first people out of a ballooning tent city -- one of many erected in the wake of the 7.0-magnitude quake that devastated the country in January -- and into a new resettlement camp before the rainy season enters full swing.
Thousands of Haitians move to higher ground before the rains come. CNN's Justine Redman reports.
A former teacher has just graduated from university in Ghana -- aged 99.
Elderly ambition
updated: Fri Apr 02 2010 10:56:00
CNN's Richard Lui shares the story and message of Ghana's 99-year-old business school graduate.
The locals wear long, all-covering robes. They pray five times a day in one of the city's many mosques. Each year, they celebrate Ramadan, fasting from dawn to dusk.
CNN's Hala Gorani reflects on the Haitian disaster and the manifestations of the human spirit.
In a dirt field 20 minutes outside of Leogane's city center, desperation surfaces in the form of fear, anger, thanks. All at once.
CNN's Brian Todd takes us on a trip around tent cities that survivors have set up post-earthquake.
The message blaring out of the speakers on the van was stark: "Any black person who is hiding in Rosarno should get out. If we catch you, we will kill you."
The civil warfare and social instability in Somalia have prompted the flight of more than 50,000 refugees to neighboring Kenya this year alone, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
Desperation, sophisticated smuggling operations and the emergence of a small Italian island as a migrant destination provide the sad backdrop to Monday's tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea -- the capsizing of a boat carrying African migrants from Libya to Italy.
High winds and heavy seas capsized a boat filled with African migrants heading for Europe off the coast of Libya Monday -- with more than 200 feared dead, the International Organization for Migration in Geneva, Switzerland, said Tuesday.
"His kids will be livin' la vida loca!" one of the singer's pals tells PEOPLE
Young women in bright miniskirts and high heels line up to sell themselves in the dingy back streets throughout the Russian capital. Moscow's illegal flesh markets are flourishing, with up to 30 women at each pickup point, or tochka, standing in order of price for the night.
The cyclone death toll soared above 22,000 on Tuesday and more than 41,000 others were missing as foreign countries mobilized to rush in aid after the country's deadliest storm on record, state radio reported
Bhutanese refugees began arriving in the United States on Tuesday, the first wave of what the United Nations describes as one of the world's largest resettlement efforts.
Jamie Metzl of the Asia Society evaluates the parliamentary elections in the Himalayan nation of Bhutan.
Angelina Jolie's visit notwithstanding, the do-good organizations are too cowed by violence to return to Iraq
Aid workers have launched emergency responses to help people in rugged and poverty-stricken central and western Afghanistan, enduring what the United Nations is describing as "the harshest winter in nearly 30 years."
ITN's Lucy Hannon reports from the Ugandan border where Kenyans are seeking refuge from the fighting.
Iraqis fleeing their homes because of sectarian warfare are starting to set up their own makeshift camps inside the country, a development reflecting the dire scope of the country's population displacement problem.
From the sky, the mountains in this part of Kashmir seem fragile. Loose soil and fractured rock precariously poised on steep slopes wait for rains and tremors to set them free.
The sixth annual World Refugee Day is Tuesday. The United Nations unanimously adopted a resolution in 2000 to remember refugees on a special day each year.
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