Turkish Refugee Camp

Kakuma: Windswept and remote, set in the cattle-rustling lands of Kenya’s northwest, Kakuma was never meant to be permanently settled. It became one of Africa’s most famous refugee camps by accident as people escaping calamity in countries like South Sudan, Ethiopia and Congo poured in. More than three decades after…

A Wajir magistrate court has granted the Directorate of Criminal Investigations permission to exhume the body of 17-year-old Gaala Aden Abdi, who was allegedly burned to death after refusing to marry a 55-year-old man. Gaala, a Somali refugee, was buried on March 22 at the Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Dadaab,…

Some of the darkest-skinned people on earth reside in South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation. And Nyakim Gatwech, a South Sudanese-American model is the darkest person in the world. She was born in a refugee camp on the 27th of January, 1993 in Ethiopia to South Sudanese parents. She spent…

The meager rations the United Nations says it will be able to supply for each refugee in the camp in April, with the allowance set to drop to $6, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Friday. (Photo: New York Times) COX'S BAZAR — More than 1 million people in the world's…

Get the latest from Jonny Wakefield straight to your inbox Published Mar 14, 2025  •  Last updated 2 days ago  •  4 minute read The Edmonton Law Courts building is seen in 2023. On Friday, March 14, 2025, two women entered into six-month peace bonds requiring them to continue counselling with…

When Apat was a child and just beginning to study at a school outside the refugee camp where she was born and raised, a woman raised her voice one day to tell her to leave, to go back to her country, that she didn't belong there. Apat, afraid and in…

Mahmoud Ssa/Anadolu/Getty Images CNN  —  In the desolate ruins of the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza, Umm Muhammad’s daughter Hala assembles scraps of wood and chunks of foam to build a fire. Proper housing and basic infrastructure are nowhere to be found. Their family of 11 is living in…

A major Israeli offensive which over several weeks has displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians and ravaged refugee camps increasingly appears to be aligned with the "vision of annexation" of the West Bank, a UN official told AFP. Israeli forces carry out regular raids targeting militants in the West Bank,…

On this day in 1972, a group of 10 Tibetan refugees came to Saskatoon after living in a refugee camp in India for 13 years. Published Mar 06, 2025  •  Last updated 3 days ago  •  2 minute read Article content Article content Every Thursday, we feature an image from the…

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