The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide ... two million Hutu refugees crossed the Congolese border, mostly settling in refugee camps in the North Kivu ...

JERASH, Jordan — Izzaat Al-Hindi trudged down a passageway of the Jerash Refugee Camp, navigating potholes, garbage piles and drab, dilapidated buildings. He still remembers the day his family fled ...

The United Nations Security Council will vote on Friday to call on Rwanda's military to stop supporting the M23 rebel group ...

Burundi is facing a rapidly worsening humanitarian situation as more than 40,000 people have fled there in two weeks to ...

With refugees escaping an escalating war between M23 rebels and Congolese government forces in the eastern Congo, the United ...

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Who is an ‘asylum-seeker’? An asylum-seeker is someone who is seeking international protection. Their request for refugee status, or complementary protection status, has yet to be processed, or they ...