UN: 90,000 refugees return to Mogadishu
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At least 90,000 people have returned to Somalia's beleaguered capital after the heaviest fighting in more than 15 years ended last month, the United Nations said Friday.
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The UN marks World Refugee Day with a warning that the number of displaced people worldwide is rising.
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The Sudanese government has signed an agreement with the UN&#39;s migration agency ensuring that more than 1 million people displaced by the 18-month Darfur conflict will have the right to voluntarily return home, but only once they feel the situation is
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UN humanitarian agencies report thousands of people displaced for the second time in a month because of fresh outbreaks of fighting in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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The number of refugees worldwide increased by nearly 2 million last year, driving the total to nearly 14 million, the highest level since 2001, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants reported Wednesday.
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The seaport in the Somali capital reopened Wednesday for the first time in 11 years, the latest sign that the city's Islamic fundamentalist rulers are trying to restore confidence after more than a decade of anarchy.
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Somalis in the capital Mogadishu are more scared than ever of being targeted by the country's warring parties, who are recruiting children to fight in the conflict, a U.N. envoy said on Friday.
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Mediators welcome the return of a Somali warlord to the peace process in neighbouring Kenya.
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The number of people driven from their homes by violence, natural disasters and poverty increased last year for the first time since 2002 and is almost certain to rise further due to deepening conflicts across the world, the U.N. refugee chief said.
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More than 3,000 people have been displaced since the end of August by violence in an area of North Darfur state in the troubled western region of Sudan, a United Nations report said on Sunday.
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More than 100 Somali and Ethiopian  migrants drowned when a smugglers' boat capsized off Yemen  earlier this week and 130 more are missing after they were  forced off a second ship, the United Nations said on Friday.
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afrol News, 23 August - In Mogadishu, large crowds of Somalis celebrated the formation of the country&#39;s first parliament in 13 years.
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Sudan has asked the United Nations to help verify reports that 190,000 refugees from the conflict-hit western Darfur region have voluntarily returned to their homes, the UN refugee agency chief said on Tuesday.
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Violent unrest in eastern DR Congo may spark a mass exodus of refugees, the United Nations warns.
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U.N. relief workers are returning to Ivory Coast two weeks after widespread protests forced about 9,000 other foreigners to evacuate, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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The global number of refugees rises for the first time in five years, mainly due to the Iraq war, the UN says.
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ORAPWOYO, Uganda  - Nine years ago, Santonino Otok fled his home in the green fields of northern Uganda for a refugee camp, fearing attack by marauding rebels.