Liberia refugees return home
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Some 100,000 Liberians, who fled 14 years of war, are being sent home a year after the fighting ended.
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Two French journalists freed from captivity in Iraq arrived home Wednesday to a tearful welcome from their families, ending a four-month drama that had gripped this country, which had opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
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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.
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Liberians ventured back onto the streets of Monrovia on Saturday during a temporary lifting of a round-the-clock curfew imposed after at least seven people were killed in religious riots.
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The UN predicts that 100,000 Liberians in West Africa will return home by year's end.
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The four young siblings weep as they leave their foster home to make the short trip back to their war shattered homeland of Liberia.
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The number of Iraqis returning to their country after fleeing abroad is growing, with more than 46,000 people coming home last month, an Iraqi government spokesman said
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Ciata Victor gave up a high-paying tech job, a spacious condo and a first-world life in Maryland to return home to an African capital that barely has electricity or running water. After 26 years of watching from afar as her native Liberia was ravaged by coups and war, Victor says she's home to stay. And she's started a business &#151; running a seven-computer Internet cafe using a generator and a borrowed satellite hookup.
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Six Yemenis released from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay have returned home and were being held by Yemeni authorities to determine if they have any terror ties, officials said Monday.
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When the members of a National Guard unit finally returned from Iraq in July, they were met with tears, hugs and signs reading "Welcome home." But for some, the return hasn't been easy after living so long with the camaraderie of their unit, the structure of military life and the dangers of war.
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An international organization and other humanitarian agencies are beginning to help Liberia recover from the ashes of war. Most of the organizations are endeavoring to shoulder the responsibilities of the
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Some 360 Congolese refugees return from Burundi, despite violent protests from local villagers.
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The first all-female U.N. peacekeeping unit, made up of 103 women from India, arrived in Liberia on Tuesday to help the West African nation recover from 14 years of on-and-off civil war.
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Thirty-two Iraqis who failed to gain asylum in Britain have been sent back to their home country, the Home Office has told AFP.
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A convoy of displaced Liberians heads for home in the first wave of returns for around 500,000 people.
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The United Nations launched a massive voluntary repatriation program Friday to return an estimated 340,000 Liberian refugees still scattered across West Africa after a long, brutal war that ended last year.
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COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh  - Imam Sharif and his family have lived in a squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh since they fled Myanmar 16 years ago.