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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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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Scarred by war and worn by time, the tumbledown wooden houses which dot Freetown are a vestige of the Krios, descendants of freed slaves who once made Sierra Leone a beacon of Western culture in Africa.
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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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Thousands of Iraqi refugees who fled last year's violence are returning, but many more are staying away. Here are four reasons why it's too early to proclaim the end of the civil war
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The United Nations refugee agency and Nigerian officials appealed to recalcitrant Liberian refugees to go back home, warning that time and hospitality were fast running out for them.
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The Center for Employment Opportunities provides former convicts living in New York City with temporary jobs.
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Somali immigrants who fled their homeland to escape violence find black South Africans less than welcoming
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NAIROBI, Jan. 4 -- As the top U.S. diplomat for Africa flew into town, the violent post-election crisis in this normally peaceful East African nation simmered Friday with no obvious solution in sight.
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U.S. soldiers have seen a sudden lull in violence in a neighorhood that has been a hotbed of sectarian attacks. Now the unnerving question is: Where is the enemy?
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The top U.N. envoy for Liberia on Monday said the return of some 500 Liberians to their villages is the first step in repatriating some 300,000 others who became homeless in 15 years of civil war in this West African nation.
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At least 38 Cuban doctors who defected from a mission in Venezuela have been stranded for months in Colombia, where they have been refused refugee status as they await word on possible asylum in the United States, according to a relief organization.
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The war has created 2 million Iraqi exiles. An intimate look at their new lives -- and why the U.S. should let more in
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- His grandmother's bones went missing two years ago, not long after the rains stopped. "The grave is all rubber trees" now, said Sev Thveal, 23. Part of the Jarai minority, he can barely read and write and has worked the land so long that his toenails are a permanent shade of...
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Proposed prison closings are creating a gnawing uncertainty for residents of several communities in the remote, challenging region of New York where the correction industry is big business.
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President Bush has granted a short-term reprieve for thousands of Liberians who have lived in the United States for as many as 16 years but who could have faced deportation beginning Oct. 1, when their temporary residency permits were to expire.
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Ishmael Beah was a child when he got sucked into Sierra Leone's civil war--he grew up in a hurry.