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BUKAVO, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 25 (UPI) -- Fresh violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province has prompted 35,000 people to leave their homes, a U.N. refugee agency says.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 2 (UPI) -- Access to the thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians displaced by the civil war is improving but remains limited, the U.N. refugee agency said.
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 24 (UPI) -- Iraqis made up the largest group of asylum seekers in the world, though conflicts in Afghanistan and Somalia also brought applicants, the United Nations said.
BOGOTA, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- At least 17 indigenous people have been killed in southern Colombia, allegedly by rebels who accused them of collaborating with the army.
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency has urged Kenya to end the forcible return of Somalis seeking asylum after three people who crossed the Kenyan border were sent back.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Violence in Colombia's northeast is forcing indigenous people to flee into neighboring Venezuela, prompting calls from the United Nations to secure the region.
TIMISOARA, Romania, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Sudanese refugees holed up in a desert camp in Iraq were evacuated to Romania, the U.N. agency for refugees reported Tuesday.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Lord's Resistance Army rebels have killed 537 people and kidnapped 408 in the Democratic Republic of Congo since September, the United Nations says.
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Refugee relief workers who reached villages in Democratic Republic of the Congo demolished by Ugandan rebels say they found villagers shocked and traumatized.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A top U.N. official says rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo allegedly are blocking people fleeing violence from accessing a refugee camp.
