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Nakivale refugee settlement is located near the Tanzania border in Isingiro district, Southern Uganda. It is approximately 200 km away from Kampala city, which is the administrative capital of Uganda. [4] The Nakivale refugee settlement is six hours' drive from the capital, Kampala. [12] It stretches for 184 sq km (71 sq miles) and covers ...
Rebecca Moore (scientist) Rebecca Moore in 2016, wearing her Rachel Carson Award medal. Rebecca Moore (born 1955) [1] is an American software engineer, director of Google Earth, and director and founder of the Google Earth Outreach and Google Earth Engine computer mapping projects. [2]
The Calais Jungle (known officially as Camp de la Lande) was a refugee and immigrant encampment in the vicinity of Calais, France, that existed from January 2015 to October 2016. There had been other camps known as "jungles" in previous years, but this particular shanty town drew global media attention during the peak of the European migrant ...
Bidibidi Refugee Settlement is a refugee camp located in Yumbe District 's West Nile sub-Region in Uganda. It is one of the world’s largest refugee settlements, housing approximately 285,000 refugees fleeing conflict in South Sudan as of late 2016. In 2017, and refugees from DR congo. it was described as the largest refugee settlement site in ...
Jabalia Camp (Arabic: مخيّم جباليا) is a Palestinian refugee camp created by the United Nations following Israel's war of independence in 1948. Despite its name, it is nowadays an urban agglomeration located 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) north of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip .
Refugee camp (located in present-day eastern Congo-Kinshasa) for Rwandans following the Rwandan genocide of 1994. A camp in Guinea for refugees from Sierra Leone. Nahr el-Bared, Palestinian refugee camp in North Lebanon in 2005. Mitzpe Ramon, development camp for Jewish refugees, southern Israel, 1957. A refugee camp is a temporary settlement ...
Shatila refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut in May 2019 Shu'fat Camp in the city of Jerusalem.The official area of the camp is in the center of the image and is characterized by low-rise buildings; on either side of the camp are additional Palestinian neighborhoods located beyond the Israeli West Bank barrier (visible at the bottom of the image), where the buildings are taller.
A Camper Was Playing With Google Maps—and Stumbled Upon a Likely Ancient Impact Crater. A man planning a camping trip using Google Maps ran across a uniquely curved spherical pit in Quebec and ...