For years, in some cases decades, they survived persistent and intense violence, lived in often squalid refugee camps or tough cities and were treated as second-class citizens in what -- at least for a few more months -- has been their country.
An influx of people returning home to vote in Southern Sudan is straining communities suffering from lack of food and water in the remote region, aid groups said Wednesday.
A renowned South African whitewater guide and outdoorsman was apparently pulled from his kayak by a crocodile in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is presumed dead, expedition sponsor Eddie Bauer said.
On the morning of September 26, Linda Norgrove was in an unmarked Toyota Corolla traveling from Asadabad to Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, a spectacular route with towering mountains to the right and a broad river to the left. Spectacular but also very dangerous -- ambush country in a part of Afghanistan where many different groups, including criminal gangs, the Taliban and al Qaeda, have a presence.
Desperation erupted into violence Tuesday in flood-ravaged Pakistan, as survivors who have yet to receive aid scrambled to put food in their empty bellies.
CNN's Sara Sidner reports on flooding in Pakistan so expansive that you can't see where it ends.
Aisha Bain of the International Rescue Committee discusses Haiti one month later.
It was as if the giant crowd were celebrating a joyous occasion -- not a coming-together one month after a deadly earthquake.
CNN's Susan Candiotti revisits birth of national gay rights movement on 40th anniversary of NYC riots outside gay bar.
"Refugees are the most vulnerable people on Earth. They are fighting to survive." -- Angelina Jolie, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees goodwill ambassador
CNN's Bonnie Schneider discusses how the monsoon season affects refugees in Pakistan.
Iraqis fleeing violence in their homeland are struggling in America, where they had hoped to make new lives, said a report issued Tuesday by an agency that helps resettle refugees across the United States.
Of all of the calculations Zainab Ibrahim made during her accounting career in Baghdad, this one was a snap.
Zainab Ibrahim fled her native Iraq in 2005. Now she's jobless in America.
"Every night someone disappears. Parents and children vanish. We don't know where they have gone. There are killings in the nights. We hear shooting," Valerie, a 27-year-old mother, said of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Sajida Faraj scoops mashed potatoes and peas onto her plate, not quite sure of the history behind her first Thanksgiving meal. But she knows how thankful she is to be at a church in Atlanta this November, lining up for turkey, stuffing and pecan pie.
Gunmen kidnapped a French aid worker in Kabul Monday and shot dead an Afghan intelligence official who tried to rescue him, police said.
Congolese rebels seized a major military camp and a spacious gorilla park in a renewed bout of heavy fighting that sent thousands fleeing, according to the United Nations and park officials.
Over the past decade, waves of violence have continuously crashed over eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the world's deadliest war.
Model and UNICEF ambassador Dayle Haddon talks about her trip to Congo and how much the women there need outside help.
Aid agencies say they will review their presence and security arrangements in Afghanistan after the killing of a foreign relief worker.
CNN's Nic Robertson reports on the rush to get aid to remote parts of Afghanistan before the onset of winter.
The call I dread awakened me at 4 a.m. Five International Rescue Committee colleagues, traveling in a car en route to Kabul, had been ambushed by gunmen. Four were killed, and the fifth was critically injured.
Rescue workers check on survivors in destroyed areas in Georgia.
Analysis: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has proposed $20 billion to upgrade Afghan security forces. But would that be enough to beat the Taliban?
The Taliban said its gunmen opened fire on an aid group's vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing four International Rescue Committee workers and prompting the organization to suspend its operations.
Myanmar's ruling junta agreed Friday to "allow all aid workers regardless of nationalities" into the country to help cyclone survivors, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said.
A CNN reporter in Myanmar reports that despite the arrival of aid, its distribution is still a problem.
"We hope to encourage others to give to these great organizations," says Pitt
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's love for children is by no means
limited to their own: The couple has donated $1 million to help kids
affected by the war in Iraq
The actor hopes his journey – filmed for Nightline – will help raise awareness
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Myanmar on Sunday to guide a conference with international agencies aimed at boosting donations for the cyclone-struck nation, now that its ruling military junta has agreed to accept aid.
Myanmar is hosting an international donors' conference in Bangkok to raise money. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
China media role
updated: Tue May 20 2008 15:13:00
International Correspondents assess how Chinese leaders and the local media are dealing with the earthquake disaster.
Humanitarian relief charities, confronted with back-to-back natural disasters, are scrambling to raise money from Americans and corporations.
Government officials, all but absent since cyclone Nargis killed tens of thousands across Burma, pressed ahead with a referendum Saturday in villages still reeling from the disaster
"Mr. B" and his family dodged militias by moving from house to house in Baghdad -- but they couldn't escape being Sunni or the fact that Mr. B had served in Saddam Hussein's military.
The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and armed groups in the country signed a deal Wednesday to end years of fighting in the country's east, according to Peter Kessler, with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Congo peace dealupdated: Wed Jan 23 2008 23:40:00
Congo's government and rebels sign a peace deal calling for an immediate truce. CNN's Paula Hancocks reports.
Bonifasi Nahimana has traveled around the world for safety -- and for the first time in more than three decades, he says he's not afraid to go to sleep at night.
A white board at the International Rescue Committee in Atlanta shows the origins of the hundreds of refugees the agency has placed in Georgia -- Vietnam, Burma, Iran. Soon, it will add another country, Iraq.
Political refugees flee the worst places on earth to launch businesses in America.
FSB: Chasing the Dreamupdated: Thu Feb 01 2007 00:01:00
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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.
Some wars go on killing long after they end.
International aid organizations are accepting donations to help victims of the earthquake in Indonesia. The groups include:
The White House is in final negotiations over a $1 billion plan to fund nonprofit groups' efforts to help Hurricane Katrina evacuees relocate, sources involved in those negotiations said Friday.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is Africa's third-largest country.
Millions may die in the Darfur region of Sudan as a result of fighting between the Sudanese government, allied militias and rebel groups unless there is an immediate outpouring of international aid, the World Health Organization has warned.
For 15 months violent conflict has been raging in Sudan's Darfur region, where U.N. officials have accused Sudan and allied Arab tribal militias of "ethnic cleansing."
For 15 months violent conflict has been raging in Sudan's Darfur region, where U.N. officials have accused Sudan and allied Arab tribal militias of "ethnic cleansing."
The hellish scene in northern Chad where people are fleeing the vicious but little-publicized war in western Sudan's Darfur region has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today.
Seven South Korean missionaries abducted by Iraqi militants were freed Thursday, but five other foreign nationals remained hostages, according to government and media sources.
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