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After her parents and brother were killed by militias in the Darfur region of Sudan,fourteen years old Gesma fled the region to take care of her younger siblings. Like many children displaced by brutal violence in Darfur, she now works long hours to provide for her family in a refugee camp in Chad.Henry Wilkins reports. …
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A community organization in Chicago, Illinois, is helping undocumented migrants who say they are afraid to leave their homes for fear of being detained amid the country’s immigration raids.
As the Russian army advances, Ukrainian police and volunteers are moving quickly to evacuate people from areas along the front line. Pavlohrad is the nearest transit evacuation center in the Donetsk region.
Besmillah Miakhil purchased his first item a radio when he arrived in Pakistan four decades ago as a refugee. Miakhil, who is now 88, says broadcasts help him to stay in touch with Afghanistan, his home country.
As Russian forces advance on the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the east, there are reports of heavy fighting. Pavlohrad’s citizens are becoming increasingly anxious as they worry their city to be the next target, a hundred kilometers down the road.
Since large number of men being drafted, drafted,Ukrainian women have the opportunity to work in the vast coal mines in their country.Lesia Bakalets went to a mine on the front line in the Dnipropetrovsk region and heard from some of those.Due to security reasons, neither the exact location of the mine nor the full names of the miners have been disclosed.
With just a backpack, Ukrainians Yevhenia and Kostiantyn Mukhin fled Kherson in 2022. Determined to rebuild their lives but also to spread the joy of Ukrainian culture.
To discourage poachers who target endangered rhinoceroses for their prized horns, scientists are adopting a different approach. Small, radioactive pellets have been put into the horns of live rhinos as part of a pilot study conducted in South Africa. Making the horns radioactive will reduce the demand for them on the black market.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza as the first phase of an Israeli-Hamas truce has taken effect. But many find their homes completely destroyed.
President Donald Trump’s order to detain undocumented migrants at the Migrant Operations Center at the U.S. naval facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is being opposed by rights groups. While previous administrations have detained migrants at Guantanamo, these groups say that what Trump is doing is different.