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A coalition of human rights organisations has sued the Ghanaian government for “gross violation” of the rights of Liberian refugees in reaction to...

Ghana’s government has invoked a clause of the 1951 Refugee Convention to force the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to close operations for 26,000...

After hiding in the bush for more than a year, families in the northern Central African Republic (CAR) regions of Ouaham and Nana Grebizi are...

As up to 800 additional refugees prepare to return home to Mauritania from Senegal this week, some of them told IRIN they were confident about the...

Yacoub Diop is a former police officer and the current chief of Medina Salam, a village on the Senegal River in southern Mauritania, which recently...

Around 500 Liberian refugees in Ghana are in the fourth week of an “indefinite sit down strike” to draw attention to what they see as dissatisfactory...

On 14 December 2007, 368 persons were repatriated from Eritrea to Ethiopia under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross...

At least 120,000 Burundian refugees have still to be repatriated from Tanzania, despite plans by the host government to close all refugee camps by...