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Burundian refugee Richard Samuel, 14, holds his homemade guitar as he waits to be transferred to Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania in 2015.

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  • Global Health

Opinion: From Kigoma to Kyiv, refugees everywhere deserve quality health care

After visiting Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania, two trainees in medicine and public health at Johns Hopkins reflect on disparities in the quality of medical and surgical care provided to refugees.

June 15, 2022
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By:
  • Alexander Blum and
  • Zachary Enumah
Burundian refugee Richard Samuel, 14, holds his homemade guitar as he waits to be transferred to Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania in 2015.

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  • Global Health

Opinion: From Kigoma to Kyiv, refugees everywhere deserve quality health care

After visiting Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania, two trainees in medicine and public health at Johns Hopkins reflect on disparities in the quality of medical and surgical care provided to refugees.

June 15, 2022
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By:
  • Alexander Blum and
  • Zachary Enumah
A young migrant cries after illegally crossing the Rio Grande River with her family in Eagle Pass, Texas, on May 22, 2022.

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  • World

A record 100 million people have been forced from their homes

Violence and natural disasters are fueling the surge in the number of people displaced, the U.N. says in a new report.

May 23, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Raise Grigorievna Dreama's daughters Malina (left) and Ramina (center) and her granddaughter Monica (right) sit in their room at a temporary Chisinau housing center for refugees, mostly hosting people from the Roma community and other minority groups from Ukraine, in April.

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  • World

Roma refugees who fled from Ukraine to Moldova are now in limbo

Many slipped across the border as the war began, but lack passports or other official forms of ID. They struggle to prove their eligibility for humanitarian aid — and to cross into other countries.

May 21, 2022
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By:
  • Betsy Joles
Ukrainian refugee Alina Archipova gives her daughter medication at a temporary shelter in Berlin, Germany, on March 10.

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  • Global Health

What's a good word for the welcome given to Ukrainian refugees in Europe? 'Generous'

That's how Paul Spiegel characterizes the reception — and medical services — offered by European nations. He spent 7 weeks on the scene for the World Health Organization to assess the situation.

May 05, 2022
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By:
  • Diane Cole
Joseph Feny is living in a one-bedroom apartment with friends Anet Pchelnikova and Natasha Madichanska, and Madichanska's twin daughters Yulia (left) and Alesandra, 10. They all fled Kyiv for Bulgaria earlier this month.

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  • World

Orthodox Easter will be very different this year for thousands of Ukrainian refugees

This weekend would normally be a celebratory one for Ukrainians. But Easter Sunday marks two months since the latest Russian invasion. More than 40,000 refugees have found themselves in Bulgaria.

April 23, 2022
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By:
  • Meghan Collins Sullivan
Joseph Feny is living in a one-bedroom apartment with friends Anet Pchelnikova and Natasha Madichanska, and Madichanska's twin daughters Yulia (left) and Alesandra, 10. They all fled Kyiv for Bulgaria earlier this month.

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  • World

Orthodox Easter will be very different this year for thousands of Ukrainian refugees

This weekend would normally be a celebratory one for Ukrainians. But Easter Sunday marks two months since the latest Russian invasion. More than 40,000 refugees have found themselves in Bulgaria.

April 23, 2022
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By:
  • Meghan Collins Sullivan
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, by the RNLI, following a small boat incident in the Channel, Thursday April 14, 2022.

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  • World

U.K. plan to fly asylum-seekers to Rwanda draws outrage

Britain announced a deal with Rwanda on Thursday to send asylum-seekers thousands of miles to the East African country, which it said would deter people-smugglers, but has been called inhumane.

April 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Alla Ilyinichna Sinelnikova (left), 90, and Sonya Leibovna Tartakovskaya, 83, were recently evacuated from Ukraine to Germany. Both are survivors of the Holocaust, and this is the second time they are fleeing war. "I never thought I would live to see such horror for the second time in my life," says Sinelnikova. "I thought it was in my past, all over and done with. And now we're reliving it."

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  • World

Ukrainian Holocaust survivors flee war again — this time to Germany

Germany has welcomed dozens of the oldest refugees fleeing Ukraine — those who survived the Holocaust during World War II. They've now narrowly escaped death for the second time in their lives.

April 12, 2022
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  • Esme Nicholson
People who fled the war in Ukraine and members of the Ukrainian diaspora pray in an Orthodox church in Krakow on Sunday.

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  • World

Krakow, Poland's second-largest city, strains to accommodate Ukrainian refugees

More than 150,000 displaced Ukrainians now live in Krakow, increasing the population by 20% in just a few weeks. Now the city is helping them find long-term housing, jobs and spots in schools.

April 06, 2022
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  • Joanna Kakissis
Davide Martello, an Italian man living in Germany, plays the piano for people who have fled Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland.

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  • Europe

Near the Polish border, a musician plays music to welcome those fleeing Ukraine

Refugees streaming across the border at the Medyka border crossing into Poland leave behind the air raid sirens and the sounds of war and are welcomed by musician Davide Martello.

April 05, 2022
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By:
  • Juana Summers,
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • and 3 more
Nastia Stefanovich, a volunteer at the distribution center in Lviv for goods donated for Ukrainians in need, points out the piles of clothes that have been arriving.

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  • Global Health

Donated clothes help in Ukraine. But here's one thing aid experts like better

Donations are pouring in — but they don't always address the needs of the many displaced and homeless Ukrainians who've lost practically everything they own.

March 22, 2022
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
Mayor Wojciech Bakun of Przemysl, Poland, estimates that 350,000 refugees have arrived in his Polish border town since Russia invaded Ukraine.

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  • World

This Polish mayor has become a hero for Ukrainians in crisis. But what of his past?

Wojciech Bakun admits he was ill-prepared to become a front-line humanitarian worker dealing with the rush of refugees from Ukraine. And some onlookers have been surprised by his response too.

March 11, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • Patrick Wood,
  • and 2 more
A woman wearing the Ukrainian flag is handed a beverage at the train station in Przemysl, Poland,  on Thursday. Ukrainians have been welcomed into Poland and other neighboring countries as they flee Russian attacks.

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  • Europe

Race, culture and politics underpin how — or if — refugees are welcomed in Europe

The embrace of Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion is far different from the cold shoulder refugees from the Middle East and Africa have received.

March 04, 2022
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
After several months of temporarily housing, Kamila Noori, a prominent Afghan judge, stands on the balcony of the apartment where she will live with her husband and two of their daughters.

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  • World

From Kabul to Virginia: An Afghan family is starting over in America

In only a matter of days, the lives of an Afghan family changed forever. After the Taliban took control of Kabul, they were forced to start over in a foreign country.

January 25, 2022
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By:
  • H.J. Mai
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