• Cholera threatens displaced Congolese

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    Congolese gather on the roadside at an impromptu site for the displaced in Kanyarucinya on the outskirts of Goma back dropped by the Nyiragongo volcano in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Aug. 3, 2012. Clashes between local militia and government forces in northern Democratic Republic of Congo have sent 2,000 people fleeing into neighboring Uganda, various sources said Friday.

    Jerome Delay / AP reports -- The first case of cholera has emerged among thousands of people in an impromptu refugee camp in eastern Congo. Civilians fled fighting between a new rebel group and government forces backed by U.N. peacekeepers. Doctors Without Borders reported Congo's army only controls the city of Goma and the village of Kibumba, six miles outside Goma. Now the rebels hold all towns as far north as Rutshuru and are threatening to besiege Goma. The U.N. Security Council on Thursday demanded that the M23 rebel group halt any advances toward Goma.

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    Internally displaced Congolese sit in a school on the outskirts of Goma, eastern Congo on Aug. 3.

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    Congolese government troops load onto a truck outside the U.N.'s main base in Goma, eastern Congo, on Aug. 3.

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  • North Sudanese refugees moved due to flooding

    A sick Sudanese girl waits for transport to the MSF (Doctors Without Borders) field hospital on July 16, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    By Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

    Up to 16,000 refugees are being moved due to flooding in the Jamam refugee camp in South Sudan. The rainy season has caused problems with flooded fields around the tents. The Jamam refugee camp is approximately 50 miles from the border of North Sudan and there are currently three refugee camps in the Upper Nile area housing 107,000 refugees from the Engassana region coming from North Sudan.

    Over the past year repeated conflict with North Sudan, corruption scandals and economic difficulties have plagued the new country. Further problems caused by the shutdown of its oil production have led to a sharp decline in its currency and a rise in the price of food and fuel.

    A camp sits near mud and water, a constant problem in the refugee camp, while many are moved to a different location on July 16, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    Sudanese refugees are directed by a UNHCR staff to a medical checkup area before heading to the Batil refugee camp on July 16, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    A Sudanese girl rests outside her tent as her mother stands nearby on July 16, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    Sinara holds her grandson Karum Bashir while his mother is away getting water on July 16, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    Sudanese refugees wait in line to get a medical check before heading to the Batil refugee camp on July 15, 2012 in the Jamam camp of South Sudan.

    Sudanese refugees crowd into a truck heading to the Batil refugee camp on July 15, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    The violence that has followed last year's division of Sudan has spawned a refugee crisis that aid workers say is the worst they have ever seen. Jonathan Miller, Channel Four Europe reports.

  • Libyan refugees wait for safe return to Tawargha

    A displaced Libyan Tawargha woman cries during an interview in a refugee camp at the outskirts of Benghazi on March 7, 2012.

    By Manu Brabo, Associated Press

    Outside Libya’s second largest city of Benghazi lies a camp of refugees. Some 40,000 ethnic Tawargha Africans were expelled from their homes in Tawergha, just south of Misrata, for allegedly collaborating in the killing and raping of Misratans and for helping Gadhafi's forces impose a tight siege on the city during the Libyan revolution. Some in the camp were responsible for the allegations, and some were not. Read more about Tawargha here

    Photos were shot by Associated Press photographer Manu Brabo in March, but made available to msnbc.com on Wednesday.

    A displaced Libyan Tawargha woman walks through a refugee camp in the outskirts of Benghazi on March 7, 2012.

    Displaced Libyan Tawargha men pray at a mosque in a refugee camp at the outskirts of Benghazi, Libya on March 7, 2012.

    A displaced Libyan Tawargha tobacco store owner works in a refugee camp at the outskirts of Benghazi on March 7, 2012.

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  • Syrians find solace in "Container City"

    Osman Orsal / Reuters

    Syrian children play at a camp named "Container City" on the Turkish-Syrian border of Oncupinar in the Kilis province, southern Turkey on July 3, 2012.

    Syrians fleeing civil unrest have found habitat in temporary homes located on the Turkish-Syrian border in Kilis, Turkey. The homes are mostly used by Turkish Muslims traveling on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Read more here

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    Syrian children play at a "Container City" playground.

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    A Syrian family watches television inside a "Container."

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    An overall view of "Container City."

     

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  • Afghan refugees wait to return home from Pakistan

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    An Afghan girl sits with her mother at The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration center on the outskirts of Peshawar on June 19.

    Afghan refugees wait at a United Nations registration center on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan as they prepare to return to their home country after fleeing civil war and Taliban rule.

    About 20 percent of the population of Afghanistan are refugees. Of those abroad, there are 1.7 million Afghans in Pakistan and a million in Iran.

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    Afghan refugees sit in front of trucks at the UNHCR registration center on the outskirts of Peshawar on June 19, as they prepare to return to their home country after fleeing civil war and Taliban rule.

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  • For Mali refugees, struggle to get by is biggest battle

    Joe Penney / Reuters

    A Malian woman lies on the floor of her home, a tent provided by the United Nations' refugee agency, UNHCR, in Mbera refugee camp, Mauritania. Pictures taken on May 23 and 24, 2012.

    Reuters photographer Joe Penney reports from Mbera, a refugee camp in Mauritania, west Africa which has become home to 64,000 Malians who have fled violence in their home country:

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    The inside of a makeshift shelter. Hundreds of families living outside the official camp grounds reside in informal structures built from whatever materials they can find, including sticks, blankets, towels and empty cement bags.

     Mbera functions like a fairly normal Saharan city: there are schools, a butcher, hairdressers, lots of tea and even the odd electric guitar. Traditionally nomadic peoples, many of the Tuaregs and Berabiche Arab tribes who left Mali for Mbera are accustomed to a life of minimal material comfort and establishing their homes under tents built from available materials. But events in Mali have provided a new challenge: political instability and violence.

    Since Tuareg and Salafist rebels began their campaign in January for an independent state called Azawad, in Northern Mali, more than 320,000 people have fled their homes and about half of them have sought asylum in refugee camps in neighboring states.

     The more politically inclined younger generation pin their hopes on an independent Azawad. But for those a bit older who witnessed the negative effects of violence in past decades, the struggle to get by takes precedence. The words of Mohamed Iselkou, a 45-year-old farmer and businessman from Timbuktu, described the sentiments of many in Mbera: "We just want to go home."

    Read the full story and see more pictures on the Reuters Photographers Blog.

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    Ibrahim ag Jiddou, 12, poses for a picture in his makeshift shelter made of sticks and cloth. Jiddou and his family fled violence in his hometown of Lere, Mali, in March. They took 19 hours in a bush taxi to get to Mbera. He says he wants to be a general in the army of an independent state of Azawad when he grows up.

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    Zeinab Mint Hama, 25, poses for a picture with her children (left to right) Zuber, Bon Oumar and Seydna Ali in front of their shelter. Hama fled her hometown of Lere, Mali, in January with relatives and her children because of violence, leaving her husband behind, to ensure the children were safe.

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    Sisters Takia, 20, left, and Fatimata Wallet Mohammed, 18, pose for a picture in their shelter. In March, Takia and Fatimata fled their home in Lere, Mali, along with their parents and five other siblings. They say they are waiting for the international community to recognize the independent state of Azawad before returning home.

     

  • Anti-African street violence surges in Israel

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    Israelis chant slogans against African migrants during a protest in Tel Aviv on May 23, 2012. Recent rapes blamed on African migrants have ignited a political and emotional backlash against their ballooning numbers, with Israelis and their leaders stridently and in an alarming new development, violently calling for their expulsion.

    Reuters reports — Surging street violence against African migrants in Israel, including a rampage that an Israeli broadcaster dubbed a "pogrom", drew statements of empathy for the rioters as well as censure from the government on Thursday.

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    African migrants sleep at a children's playground in Levinsky Park in southern Tel Aviv on May 25, 2012.

    Waving Israeli flags and chanting "Deport the Sudanese", residents of a low-income Tel Aviv neighborhood where many of the border-jumpers from Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan live held a march late Wednesday that turned violent.

    Israel okays funding to block African migrants

    Police said 20 people were arrested for assault and vandalism. Trash cans were set alight, storefront windows were broken and a crowd attacked an African driving through the area, breaking his car's windows. No serious injuries were reported.

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Wednesday's violence, saying there was no room for such action and that the issue must be resolved "responsibly".

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    Israelis gather during a demonstration in support of African migrants on May 24, 2012.

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    An African migrant fixes his TV satellite dish in southern Tel Aviv, where thousands of African migrants reside, on May 24, 2012.

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    Women pass by an African migrant resting at Levinsky Park in southern Tel Aviv on May 24, 2012.

     

  • Fleeing violence, Sudanese make homes amid rocks

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A couple stands in front of their shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, Sudan, April 28.

    Fleeing aerial bombardment by the Sudanese air force thousands of people have abandoned their homes and made make-shift shelters between the rocks and boulders.

    According to the Sudan Tribune, the UN is to open a new camp in Kenya for refugees from both Sudan and South Sudan.

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    A woman walks towards a cave shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A Nuba woman, injured during a raid by Sudan's air force, sits in a makeshift hospital in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A SPLA-N soldier walks next to fresh graves of Nuba people killed during raids by Sudan's air force in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    Nuba people carry their belongings to be loaded in a truck as they flee to the South Sudanese Yida refugee camp, in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A woman stands in a cave next to her bedridden mother in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan.

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    Children sits in a cave shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan.

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    A woman stands in front of her shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan.

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    A woman holds her child in a cave in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, April 28.

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    Women stand in front of a cave in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan.

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    A woman sits in front of her cave shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, April 28.

    When the aid organization Ryan Boyette worked for urged him to evacuate Sudan's dangerous Nuba Mountains last summer, he politely quit his job. For the last nine years, Boyette has called the region home and the people there have become his family. The American man married a Nuba woman and learned to speak the local language. Now, he's mounting a video campaign to shed light on the growing conflict between Nuba rebel forces and the Sudanese government. The conflict has sent thousands of Nuba people into makeshift camps. Sudan's government says it's stopping an insurgency. The Nuba people say they have been the victims of ethnic cleansing, systematic rape and kidnapping at the hands of the Sudanese authorities. NBC News anchor Ann Curry reports.

     

  • Syrian refugees flee fighting in Idlib to nearby Turkey

    Reuters reports that a government offensive in northwest Syria has sharply increased the flow of refugees into Turkey, with about a thousand crossing in the last 24 hours, Turkish officials said on Thursday. The number fleeing was expected to grow further as long as fighting continued around the town of Idlib, close to the Turkish border, one Turkish official said.

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    A girl carries tomatoes as Syrian refugees go about their daily lives at the Reyhanli refugee Camp in Antakya, on March 15. Ankara accused the Syrian leadership of planting landmines near its border with Turkey along routes used by refugees fleeing the Damascus regime's deadly crackdown on dissent.

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    Syrian refugees arrive near the border between Syria and Turkey at Reyhanli in Antakya on March 15. Some 1,000 Syrian refugees, including a defecting general, crossed into Turkey in 24 hours, braving landmines laid to stop them by Syria's troops, Turkish officials said today. The head of the Turkish Red Crescent meanwhile warned that the number of Syrians arriving in Turkey could reach half a million if Bashar al-Assad's regime keeps up its year-long crackdown on dissent.

    Turkey said on Thursday it might consider backing a 'buffer zone' inside Syria to cope with a flow of refugees, which is estimated in the Reuters report at 14,700. The UN says nearly a quarter of a million Syrians have fled their homes since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began, according to a recent BBC News report.

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    Syrian refugees play at the Reyhanli refugee camp in Hatay province on the Turkish-Syrian border March 15.

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    A girl carries tomatoes as Syrian refugees go about their daily lives at the Reyhanli refugee Camp in Antakya, on March 15. Ankara accused the Syrian leadership of planting landmines near its border with Turkey along routes used by refugees fleeing the Damascus regime's deadly crackdown on dissent.

    Today, on the first anniversary of the bloody uprising in Syria, Msnbc.com's David Arnott looks back at how visual coverage of the conflict has been severely restricted, unlike many of the other Arab Spring rebellions.

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    A group of Syrian fleeing violence in their country, walk towards the Turkish, near Reyhanli, Turkey, Thursday, March 15.

  • School in India provides opportunity for Tibetan children in exile

    Adnan Abidi / Reuters

    Children look out of a window of the baby home at the Tibetan Children's Village (TCV) in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala, Aug. 10. The TCV is an integrated educational community and a boarding school for destitute Tibetan children in exile, as well as for those escaping from Tibet, said Director Phuntsok Namgyal. Tibetan children, from infancy to the age of 20, are supported by donations and funding of various non-governmental organizations. A large percentage of children who study at TCV are from Tibet who have either escaped or have been sent by their parents in Tibet for a better education and opportunity.

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    Tibetan children are reflected in a mirror as they put on their rain gear before leaving for the Tibetan Children's Village School in Dharmsala, India, Aug. 10.

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    Students play with a soccer ball in their living room at the Tibetan Children's Village.

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    Students study in their classroom at the Tibetan Children's Village.

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    Students walk toward their living room during a downpour after attending class at the Tibetan Children's Village.

    By Katie Cannon, Senior Multimedia Editor

     While it must be terribly difficult to be in exile or sent away from one's parents, the sense of community that the school tries to provide must be comforting on some level.

  • Schalk van Zuydam / AP

    An elderly woman waits inside a food distribution center after being registered as a refugee in Dadaab, Kenya, Monday, Aug 1. Dadaab, a camp designed for 90,000 people now houses around 440,000 refugees. Almost all are from war-ravaged Somalia, with some having been here for more than 20 years, when the country first collapsed into anarchy.

    Outside the Frame: An elderly refugee in Kenya waits for food

    Associated Press photographer Schalk van Zuydam writes:

    I’m covering a famine for the second time in my career — the first one was in 2005 in Niger — and I’ve found this to be a very emotional assignment, especially when the most affected are children and the elderly. The woman in this photo is sitting on the ground at a food distribution center mostly populated by Somalis in the town of Dadaab, Kenya, after being registered as a refugee. Her hands tell the story of a woman who has worked hard and suffered in her life. Most Western women of her age would be looking forward to retirement and would have access to good medical treatment. This woman’s reality is very different, as she waits with others for food handouts in the hot African sun.

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    A young Afghan refugee poses at The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration center on the outskirts of Peshawar on Monday, June 20, prior to returning to her home country Afghanistan, after fleeing civil war and Taliban rule. Pakistan is host to a refugee population of 1.9 million.

    Portrait of a young Afghan refugee on her way home

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