Up to 90,000 Afghans said displaced by war
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Fighting between NATO-led forces and insurgents across southern Afghanistan has displaced an estimated 80,000 to 90,000 people over the past few months, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.
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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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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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A Kosovar and a Filipino kidnapped in Afghanistan have called home to say they are OK. The two were among three UN workers kidnapped 12 days ago when armed men halted their vehicle in downtown Kabul.
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Around 90 people died in a series of weekend clashes between troops and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, including more than 70 rebels killed in a battle in the south and four US soldiers.
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About 740,000 Afghans who fled violence and repression at home are expected to vote in Saturday's election.
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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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In Colombia and across the world, the United Nations says it is seeing more internally displaced people, who flee their homes but not their countries.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The room was carpeted and cozy, warm from the wood stove and filled with the chatter of children. But the tales their mothers and older sisters told recently, speaking hesitantly even in the safety of a guarded private shelter, were bone-chilling.
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Poland's defense minister said in comments broadcast Thursday that his nation will send at least 900 troops to eastern Afghanistan next year.
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At least 2,800 people have died in insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan in the first six months of the year, according to a count by the Associated Press. The breakdown is based on AP figures unless otherwise stated.
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Nearly three quarters of a million  Afghan refugees living in Pakistan registered to vote in their  country's first direct presidential polls this weekend,  ignoring warnings not to do so from Islamic militants.
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Nearly 18,000 people are still missing from the ethnic wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday.
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BARA KALA, Afghanistan -- The rickety diesel drill digging a new well at the edge of a parched field represents the sum total of reconstruction so far in this village in eastern Afghanistan.
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Some 80,000 Iraqis have fled their   homes and registered with the government as refugees over the   past two months, data showed on Thursday, taking the total in   seven months of sectarian violence to a quarter of a million.
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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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At least 100,000 people have fled their homes in East Timor&#039;s capital because of days of violence, a spokeswoman for a group of aid agencies said Wednesday.