Kenya's reluctant refugees find sympathetic haven
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MULANDA, Uganda  - Kenya's election months were good times for teenage budding musician Robert Kinganga -- he was given a fistful of money, a microphone and a big crowd to entertain.
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They have escaped to the camps of Chad with their lives, but, for the refugees from Sudan, rape and violence stalk their days and haunt their nights.
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Five years after he fled his razed Darfur village, and after jail spells in three countries, Ibrahim has found refuge in an unlikely place: a kibbutz in Israel.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 31 -- With the death toll from post-election violence surpassing 100 and riots continuing in many parts of Kenya, an uncomfortable tension settled Monday over a struggling, melting-pot settlement called Kangeme, a densely populated sprawl of corrugated steel shacks.
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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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Tsunami survivors in Aceh are reluctant to move into newly-built camps because they fear they may not leave.
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KALMA CAMP, Sudan -- She has been in the world for 18 days, and her life is tainted. Curled naked under a blanket close to her mother, Nashwa is too young to know shame, the emotion that will be like a shadow to her.
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The West African nation of Cape Verde, where almost everyone has a relative abroad, is a microcosm of the forces of migration that are remaking societies across the globe.
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In a tiny village at the northern tip of Iraqi Kurdistan, some Christian refugees who fled Baghdadâs violence are experiencing a kind of homecoming.
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GAGA REFUGEE CAMP, Chad Sometimes, the amiable professor feels lost here in this circle of sand and sun and interrupted lives.
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NAIROBI -- One recent Sunday, Paul Abeno, a mid-level computer sales executive, shuffled through aisles of brass cabinet pulls, colored tiles and tiny glass-encased models of three-bedroom homes landscaped with paper trees. He stared through the glass at Baobab Village.
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CAIRO, EGYPTâTwo old friends in Sudan fled for their lives this spring, separately, each powerless to aid the other&#39;s migration north to Egypt, where they both sought refuge.
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MAE SOT, Thailand -- This bustling border town has long been a magnet for refugees fleeing Burma's repressive military government and searching for a better life. But many arriving now, on the run from authorities for their role in organizing pro-democracy rallies last month, are not looking to...
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SAN DIEGO -- Omar Abdi Mohamed, a lanky, soft-spoken political refugee from war-ruined Somalia in East Africa, had been preaching the word of Islam in the United States for the past nine years. Two things make him unusual.
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BELIEL CAMP, Sudan -- Dinka men once danced in a green field here in Darfur. A weave of drum rhythms would rise with the smoke of their twilight bonfires. The men would form a tight line with their spears, honoring their lost homeland in war-scattered southern Sudan and chanting praise for the peace they had found as refugees.
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BEDAWI REFUGEE CAMP, Lebanon -- Over the years, the tents have come down and concrete apartment blocks have gone up on this hillside overlooking the Mediterranean.
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METSIAMANONG, Botswana -- When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as though he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.