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A Ugandan novelist charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni has taken the government to court over his alleged torture by soldiers.
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Putin on Sunday ordered Russia's nuclear forces onto high alert in response to what he called "unfriendly" steps by the West, whose unity and speed in imposing sanctions on the Russian economy has surprised observers.
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Internally displaced persons in Mozambique have been recounting horrific stories of beheadings and rape.
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Forty-eight Zimbabweans who were refugees in Botswana returned home yesterday following a joint initiative by Government, Botswana as well as the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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Up to 150 people may have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the UN refugee agency says.
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A South Sudanese doctor who runs an overcrowded hospital with a dimly-lit surgical theatre and no regular supply of general anaesthetics on Tuesday won the UN refugee agency’s prestigious Nansen award.
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Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Petronella Kagonye has hailed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for its commitment to compliment Government of Zimbabwe efforts in managing the welfare of refugees.
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Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged Rwandan refugees to return home to vote in presidential elections this week.
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The UN refugee agency has criticised Cameroon for the forced return of hundreds of refugees to north-east Nigeria after they had fled from the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency. The UNHCR said forced returns had "continued unabated" despite…
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Aid agencies are braced for a “mass return” of illegal Zimbabwean migrants from South Africa. A moratorium on deportations, introduced in 2009, expires on Dec. 31. The Harare government's contingency plans are based on receiving an…
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