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More than 170 Ivory Coast ex-combatants held at a refugee camp in Ghana escape ...
Washington Post
ACCRA, Ghana — An official says that more than 170 Ivory Coast ex-combatants being held in a refugee camp in Ghana's west have escaped. Ken Dzirasah, chairman of the Ghana Refugee Board, said Friday that the ex-combatants likely fled because the board ...

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Two separate attacks wound five in north east Kenya
Reuters
By Noor Ali | ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - Suspected grenade attacks at a hotel and a refugee camp in northeastern Kenya wounded at least five people on Saturday, police said, days after a similar strike in the same region.
UPDATE 1-Two separate attacks wound five in north east KenyaChicago Tribune
Several injured in Kenya grenade attacksTVNZ
Double blasts wound five in north east KenyaThe Republic

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UN 'refugee' battle reveals what the PA is up to
Washington Post (blog)
Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) to provide some measure of accountability and transparency to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) passed in the Senate Appropriations Committee. A senior Senate staffer told me: “Despite enormous ...
US to count Palestinian refugeesYnetnews
Palestinian refugees forever?UPI.com
In a first, US declares 5 million Palestinians to be refugees: reportThe Daily Star
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Serbian refugee who owned grocery store in US deported to face war crimes from ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Documents identify him as an ethnic Serbian refugee. An immigration judge in late 2009 ordered him deported on multiple grounds, finding that he ordered or participated in "extrajudicial killing." Court documents show Radojkovic was accused of failing ...
US grocer accused of war crimes sent to BosniaCBS News

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Congo refugee graduates after getting NCAA scholarship for running
SI.com
It was only through kismet - a friendly guard allowed him to escape - that Fanchon was able to leave Congo and get to a refugee camp in Uganda where his family - a wife, Aimee, five daughters and five sons - soon joined him. After three years there, ...

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Backlash against African migrants in Israel
Fox News
Israel, bound by an international refugees treaty it ardently promoted, doesn't seem to have that option, and the gap between rhetoric and reality threatens to send simmering social antagonisms boiling over into open conflict. It has raised questions, ...

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Afghani refugee family held with fake passports
Indian Express
Three members of an Afghani refugee family — 41-year-old Vinod Shyamlal Virmani and his 37-year-old wife Anita and 19-year-old son Akshay — were arrested at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport here early on Saturday morning for travelling ...

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