A new round of peace talks on South Sudan’s civil war has begun as regional powers seek a solution to a five-year conflict that has caused Africa’s largest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Monday’s talks in Ethiopia come days after the United States announced an arms embargo on South Sudan and urged further […]
Somali refugees in Yemen are now coming back to their war-torn home as fighting rages in the Middle East country, officials say. A boat carrying 260 Somali refugees, many of them women, children and elderly, has become the latest to dock at Somalia’s Bossasso port in the Puntland semi-autonomous region. “About 420 people […]
Shelling and sporadic clashes struck a Palestinian refugee camp under attack by Islamic extremists in the Syrian capital on Monday, a situation that a UN official described as “beyond inhumane”. Hatem al-Dimashqi, an activist based in an area just south of Damascus, said the Yarmouk camp was under attack on Monday. Both al-Dimashqi and the […]