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World Refugee Day has occurred annually on 20 June since 2000 by a special United Nations General Assembly Resolution. 20 June had previously been commemorated as "African Refugee Day" in a number of African countries. [93] In the United Kingdom World Refugee Day is celebrated as part of Refugee Week. Refugee Week is a nationwide festival ...
Many refugees in Africa cross into neighboring countries to find haven; often, African countries are simultaneously countries of origin for refugees and countries of asylum for other refugees. The Democratic Republic of Congo , for instance, was the country of origin for 462,203 refugees at the end of 2004, but a country of asylum for 199,323 ...
Initially, most of the fleeing boys went to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, until the war in 1991 sent the boys fleeing again to a different refugee camp called Kakuma, [17] which is located in Kenya. [18] The arrival of the Lost Boys to the refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya were welcomed to various degrees. It was difficult for the camps to ...
The 1969 Refugee Convention has made some significant advances from the 1951 Refugee Convention. Discrimination against refugees is prohibited on the additional grounds of membership of a particular social group, nationality, or political opinion. These grounds were absent in the 1951 Refugee Convention.
An ongoing refugee crisis began in Africa in mid-April 2023 after the outbreak of the Sudanese civil war.By June 2024, around 2.1 million people have fled the country, while around 12 million [4] [5] have been internally displaced within Sudan; these numbers include at least 75,000 migrant returnees and other third-country nationals, making the refugee and displacement crisis in Sudan the ...
The Katumba Refugee Camp is a refugee camp in Tanzania.It is located in the Kasulu District of the Kigoma Region in western Tanzania. [1] Established in 1972 to provide refuge for Burundian citizens escaping mass extermination by the Burundi government against its Hutu citizens during Burundian Civil War, is one of the oldest and largest refugee camps in Africa.
Under international law, a refugee is a person who has fled their own country of nationality or habitual residence, and cannot return due to fear of persecution on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
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 Mitzpe Ramon, development camp for Jewish refugees, southern Israel, 1957. A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in