Liberians who fled war live in limbo in New York
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Recovering in a New York nursing home from surgery to remove a brain tumor, former Liberian interim President David Kpormakpor is relieved to learn that he will not be deported. At least not this year.
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Chicago Tribune - Gabriel Boul, a Sudanese refugee who was torn from his family at the age of 7, clung to life for more than a month, fueled by the hope that he would see his mother again. He died last week surrounded by friends, but the person he most wanted there never came.
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YUHMOUR, Lebanon -- The fighting stopped two weeks ago, but it's still too dangerous for Abdullah Ziaeddine to move back into his war-blasted home, much less start to rebuild.
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A senior U.N. official marked World Refugee Day Tuesday by welcoming home 125 Liberians from Sierra Leone where they lived for years seeking haven from Liberia&#039;s civil war.
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MANO, SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army  sergeant who deserted to North Korea four decades ago will have  to wait a while to start a new life in his Japanese wife's home  town on the northern island of Sado.
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TUCSON After escaping death threats in a town north of Baghdad, Nadhum Ali al-Hasnawi and his family landed in the United States six weeks ago as refugees, hoping to build a new life for themselves. But since its arrival, the family has rarely left their apartment. "It is like Iraq all over again...
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MERKA, Somalia -- The handful of grain Abiye Omar clutches in her skinny hand has traveled a long way from the fertile fields of midwestern America to this desolate Somali seaside town.
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A junior British minister said that people living in camps after fleeing their villages because of conflict in Sudan's Darfur region lived in fear of leaving their temporary homes despite a greater presence now of aid workers.
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LOUT, Cambodia  - When Vietnamese troops overran  his village in 1979, Romam Chhung Loeung, a Khmer Rouge  guerrilla, had no option but to flee with friends and family  into the dense jungle of northeast Cambodia.
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In this teeming refugee camp in Indonesia's Banda Aceh, a squat security post has become a shrine to the missing and a meeting point to seek information in a distraught city where none seems to exist.
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The Center for Employment Opportunities provides former convicts living in New York City with temporary jobs.
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A hometown waits for the only American G.I. unaccounted for in the war, snatched by insurgents 10 months ago
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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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U.N. peacekeepers have made good progress stabilizing Liberia after years of war but the country needs more international help to rebuild its shattered economy and create jobs, U.N. officials said on Wednesday.
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More than half the survivors still living in refugee camps since last year's killer South Asian earthquake can't go home because they don't have land to return to, according to a new U.N.-backed survey that underlines one of the last hurdles facing recovery efforts.
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Six foreign medics reprieved from a death sentence in Libya after an eight-year ordeal over the infection of hundreds of children with HIV-tainted blood were facing an anxious wait on Wednesday as the world called on Tripoli to send them home.
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Civil war drove Christine Pompeo from her village in Sudan's deepest south to a crowded apartment in the Arab world's biggest city. Now a peace treaty has been struck to end the 21-year war that displaced 4 million, but Pompeo and many others are hesitant about returning.