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Up to 30,000 Syrian refugees may be fleeing for Lebanon
The UN says as many as 30,000 Syrian refugees may have crossed into Lebanon in the last 48 hours to escape the bloody uprising, and Syria’s intelligence chief dies of wounds sustained in a bomb blast.
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Sudanese refugees tell of their flight from persecution
The leader of tens of thousands of refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan tells Channel 4 News’ Jonathan Miller of the persecution causing his Ingessena people to flee their homeland.
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Refugees ‘should go back to Burma’
Refugees fleeing for their lives from persecution and violence in Burma will continue to be turned away from Bangladesh to protect diplomatic relations, a Bangladeshi diplomat tells Channel 4 News.
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Turkey accuses Syria of firing on refugees
Turkey says a translator and two Syrians have been injured by shots fired into a refugee camp from the Syrian side of the border.
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Syrian refugees speak of ‘perilous’ journey
As thousands of Syrians flee the deadly violence tearing apart their country, a Save the Children’s worker writes for Channel 4 News from the border of Lebanon and Syria.
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Life on the edge for Dadaab’s refugees
Life in the world’s biggest refugee camp, at Dadaab, Kenya, means subsisting on the bare essentials. But people still try to live as normally as they can, writes the World Food Programme’s Steve Ryan.
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Mobile phone services help refugees find families
Refugees who have become separated from family during war and disasters can now use a mobile phone web service to try to find them again. Around 200,000 refugees are expected to use the site.
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Somali refugees in Mogadishu camps ‘not safe from attack’
In an exclusive report, Channel 4 News has spoken to refugees who say women in camps in Mogadishu are being raped and not enough is being done to keep them safe.
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The long walk to Dadaab for Somalia’s refugees
The British Somali journalist Jamal Osman experiences for himself just a little of the arduous trek being endured by thousands of starving Somalis making their way to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
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Why Somalia's refugees are not being fed at home
Is America denying food aid to starving Somalis as part of a strategy to beat the al-Shabaab militants of the Horn of Africa? Jonathan Rugman reports on the agonised food politics of Somalia.
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Syrian refugees flee army advance
As Syrian forces mass ever nearer to the Turkish border forcing ‘more than a thousand’ refugees to flee north, a witness tells Channel 4 News Assad’s forces are now blocking routes to the border.
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Angelina Jolie arrives in Turkey to meet Syrian refugees
UN goodwill ambassador Jolie is meeting refugees who escaped into Turkey from the violence in Syria.
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Syrian refugees flee to Turkey
Turkey braces itself for a second wave of refugees as Syrian troops, backed by helicopters and tanks, take control of the north west town of Jisr al-Shughour.
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Army advances on Syria town as refugees flee
Heavy clashes are reported in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour as Syrian tanks advance in a bid to crush an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad that has left thousands fleeing to Turkey.
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Suffering of refugees in Muammar Gaddafi's Libya
Here’s an African love story. Adebe married her childhood sweetheart, Daniel, in Addis Ababa when she was 22. The trouble was, although Daniel was born in Ethiopia, he was of Eritrean stock, and when the two countries went to war, he was deported to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, where he was forced to join the…
