Drazen Matovic, a 36-year-old Croatian Serb, brushes his teeth in the bathroom of an abandoned primary school in the village of Strmica that serves as a makeshift refugee camp for a small group of mostly Serbs, who are waiting to be rehoused, Feb. 20, 2013.

Drazen Matovic eats food in his room in an abandoned primary school. In 1992 when Matovic was 15-years-old, he fled to Serbia with his parents to escape the fighting.

Drazen Matovic puts his hand on a copy of the bible in his room in the abandoned school. Drazen came back to Croatia in 2005 and was sent to Strmica by the UN refugee agency. Croatian authorities have promised that returning Serbs would be given equal assistance in rebuilding war-damaged properties.

Matovic carries some food into an abandoned primary school in the village of Strmica that serves as a makeshift refugee camp for a small group of people, mostly Serbs, who are waiting to be rehoused, Even though Croatian authorities have promised that returning Serbs would be given equal assistance in rebuilding war-damaged properties, 18 years after the conflict, many are still making do with basic or temporary living arrangements.

People leave Damara, the last strategic town between the rebels from the Seleka coalition and the Central African Republic's capital, Bangui, on Jan. 2, 2013, as the commander of the regional African force FOMAC warned rebels against trying to take the town, saying it would "amount to a declaration of war."

Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic President Francois Bozize ride in a convoy on the road leading to Damara, about 44 miles north of Bangui, on Jan. 2, 2013.

Chadian soldiers on the road leading to Damara on Jan. 2, 2013.

A Chadian soldier sits on a truck near Damara on Jan. 2, 2013.

A soldier runs to jump on a moving truck carrying Chadian soldiers in Damara on Jan. 2, 2013.

A group of internally displaced Congolese gather in the Mugunga III IDP camp in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on December 2, 2012.

A boy shelters from the rain under a truck in the Mugunga III IDP camp on December 2, 2012.

A man unloads sacks of food aid at the Mugunga III camp on December 2, 2012.

A boy is apprehended by a policeman after he was accused of stealing a bag of salt in the Mugunga III IDP camp on December 2, 2012.

People ride with their belongings on a wooden bicycle near Goma as they flee renewed fighting between the Congolese army and rebels in eastern Congo on July 24.

Families carry their belongings toward Goma on July 24.

Families flee from al-Shabab held towns to Mogadishu, Somalia, on Feb. 16, 2012, following al-Qaeda's declaration last week that the Somali militant group was joining its ranks.

People flee from al-Shabab held towns to Mogadishu on Feb. 16, 2012.

Darlene Claircin, 28, reads her bible inside a shed-like, temporary shelter built on a concrete slab by the Red Cross, that she and her husband are renting, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Jan. 3, 2012. Over half a million Haitians are still homeless two years after the earthquake.

Typhoon victims rest inside a gymnasium turned into a temporary evacuation center in Navotas city, north of Manila, Philippines, on October 4. President Benigno Aquino III and his cabinet have created rehabilitation plans for the areas affected by the recent typhoons Nesat and Nalgae. According to the Office of Civil Defense, typhoon Nalgae has so far left one person dead, while 57 people died and 30 were missing in typhoon Nesat's onslaught, which also flooded central Manila.

Evacuees take temporary shelter inside the Mother of Perpetual Help Church in Hagonoy, Bulacan province, the Philippines, on October 4. Rescue helicopters and boats distributed food, water and medicine to thousands of Filipinos marooned in flooded towns north of the capital on Monday and authorities said water levels were starting to recede. Wide areas of rice-producing Bulacan and Pampanga provinces have been submerged since late last week after the Philippines was hit by two typhoons. A third storm may develop this week.

Father Emmanuel Malau stands with internally displaced children who recently fled heavy fighting in Abyei inside his church in the village of Mayan Abun, southern Sudan on May 26. Malau spent days scouring the area in his pickup truck looking for young children who struggled to walk from Abyei to safer areas. Tens of thousands fled heavy fighting in the hotly contested border town earlier this week during with the northern Sudanese military took effective control of Abyei.

Homes burning in the center of Abyei town following the 21/22 May attack by the Northern Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), who swept in and seized the area ahead of the south's independence in July.

Atong Aken, 9, weeps while clutching a suitcase in a makeshift internally displaced persons camp in Mayan Abun on May 26. While fleeing heavy fighting in the border town of Abyei, Atong became separated from her mother. Heavy fighting and the rapid exodus from Abyei left many families separated.

Burnt and destroyed village huts on the outskirts of Abyei on May 24.

Armed men walk past a U.N. peacekeeping mission camp in Abyei town on May 24.

Internally displaced southern Sudanese sleep on the floor of a church in the village of Mayen Abun on May 26. Tens of thousands of southern Sudanese fled heavy fighting in the hotly contested border town of Abyei earlier this week. More than one hundred people have holed up inside the Mayen Abun church, south of Abyei. Owing to the intensity of the fighting, many people fled their homes with nothing. International humanitarian organizations are moving to supply them with even the most basic of goods and services.

Looted items scattered on the ground in front of a deserted homestead on the outskirts of Abyei town on May 24, following an attack and subsequent occupation of the town and surrounding area by the northern Sudan Armed Forces (SAF).