Somali refugee students yearn for school
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EL ASHA, Somalia  - Wringing her henna-tattooed hands, 18-year-old Rahmo Omar Hussein says fighting has robbed her of a precious commodity in one of the world's most anarchic cities.
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International mediators have begun swearing in members of a new transitional parliament for Somalia, nearly 13 years after the collapse of the nation&#39;s central government.
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A district confronts the shortage by recruiting teens to train.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  injured refugees, many of them children, out of some of the  worst hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province, even as  reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from the disaster.
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October 23, 2004 ã¡ October 23, 2004 ã¡ BEIJING â In a bid for political asylum, a group of 29 North Korean defectors, including two children, sought refuge at a South Korean school here yesterday morning.
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The Islamic militia that controls much of southern Somalia said Tuesday it will train students for holy war against foreign peacekeepers, an ominous development amid fears that a Taliban-style regime is emerging in the country.
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Liberian refugees are slowly trickling home after years of living in camps as a brutal civil war raged at home. Mariam Kromah is one of them.
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UN refugee workers are readying themselves for an influx of refugees from Darfur as people in the western Sudan region take advantage of the end of the rainy season and a promised government clampdown on militia violence.
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Residents of the town housing Somalia's interim government stocked up with provisions on Friday as troops tested weaponry ahead of a feared attack by rival Islamists in the Horn of Africa nation.
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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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Ten of 139 girls abducted eight years ago by rebels in Uganda have escaped in recent months and will return to their boarding school after years in captivity.
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Four Britons detained on the war-torn border between Somalia and Kenya three weeks ago have returned to the UK.Comment
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Ugandan children who have completed primary school benefit from free education at many secondary schools.
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A group of North Korean asylum seekers entered a South Korean school in Beijing today, adding to a surge in large-scale defections by people fleeing their nationâs dictatorship.
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Delvina da Costa complained of squalid conditions and a shortage of food in the refugee camp where she has lived for almost two years, but the prospect of returning to her old neighborhood in Dili fills her with dread.
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Students nervously returned to school here for the first time since hundreds of children and their parents were killed in a violent end to a mass hostage-taking at a Beslan primary school.
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Palestinian families with bags of clothes are crowded into hallways and classrooms at a boy's school in this refugee camp, where some rooms are now home to up to 50 people.