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Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 06:15
Drug-fueled gang violence and extreme weather linked to climate change are forcing tens of thousands of people in Latin America to flee their homes every year, according to Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 06:15
Drug-fueled gang violence and extreme weather linked to climate change are forcing tens of thousands of people in Latin America to flee their homes every year, according to Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Monday, June 9, 2014 - 09:03
Both sides pledged to take responsibility for victims, a departure from the wartime rhetoric of blaming each other.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 06:30
From June through the end of the year, 400 paramilitary warlords are expected to be released on a case-by-case basis after serving a maximum of eight years in prison for human rights abuses - including massacres, torture and rape - in exchange for confessing.
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 08:45
The stoppage will come at an awkward time for President Juan Manuel Santos, who is up for re-election a few weeks later, on May 25.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 08:48
The United Nations has yet to access more than 1,000 Somalis who have been arrested in an anti-terrorist operation in Nairobi, the majority held in a stadium that some have dubbed a “concentration camp”.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 08:10
Kenyan poachers squeezed by more effective wildlife protection have found work in the regional illegal charcoal trade run by the Islamist group al Shabaab to fund its terror-related activities, Kenyan and international police officials say.
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 00:00
The Electoral Observation Mission (MOE), an independent monitoring group based in Bogota, has warned about wads of cash circulating on the campaign trail in the run up to the parliamentary elections.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 06:31
Fewer than one in a hundred Somali refugees living in the world’s largest refugee camp, Dadaab in northern Kenya, are interested in returning home, despite a push for them to do so, the United Nations said.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 08:00
As many as one million people have been displaced in the recent fighting in South Sudan and international organisations urgently require funding to meet the needs of those who have fled their homes, said a senior U.N. official.