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News Articles: refugees

Newly arrived South Africans listen to representatives from Homeland Security and the State Department deliver welcome statements in a hangar at Atlantic Aviation Dulles near Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025 in Dulles, Va.

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  • USPS

First Afrikaners arrive in U.S. under radically redrawn refugee program

The refugees were admitted to the U.S. after an executive order from President Trump, and under an expedited and unconventional process for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.

May 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
White Afrikaaner South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 15, 2025.

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  • Africa

First group of Afrikaners granted refugee status are on their way to the U.S.

The first group of white Afrikaner South Africans granted refugee status by Trump administration enroute to U.S. as most other refugee admissions still suspended.

May 12, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
Mahawat Zakaria Jouma is happy when he gets a chance to play soccer, but mostly he is busy taking care of his siblings, trying to earn money makeing bricks, and going to school.

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  • Global Health

He's 14. He loves soccer. He's the sole caregiver for his little twin brothers

Mahamat Djouma is one of the millions displaced by the civil war in Sudan. He is part of an especially vulnerable group — unaccompanied minors. Here is his story.

November 15, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Photos by Claire Harbage
Mahamat Djouma, 14, fled the war in Sudan without parents; his mother died in 2023 and his father subsequently disappeared. He came with 5-year-old twin brothers, whom he now cares for. Entesar, a 21-year-old student, also fled to escape the violence -- and was raped by three soldiers. She asked to be identified by her middle name since she has not yet told close family members about the attack.

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  • Global Health

Remarkably resilient refugees: A teen on his own, a woman who was raped

Sudan's civil war has displaced 10 million citizens. Here are profiles of two young people from the most vulnerable groups: an unaccompanied minor caring for twin brothers, a woman who was raped.

November 12, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Photos by Claire Harbage
Abrar Saleh Ali, 17, arrived to Milé refugee camp in Eastern Chad two weeks ago after the civil war in Sudan destroyed her home and she was seperated from her family. It took months for her to walk across the country and reach the camp, along the way she was robbed of all her belongings, After arriving at the camp, she found out that her sister had been killed.

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  • Global Health

A world of women: Portraits from a refugee camp where the men are missing

In one refugee settlement in Chad, estimates are that 97% of the Sudanese residents are women and children. Here's how four women there are mourning the loss of a partner and struggling to get by.

October 16, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Claire Harbage
One of the women who's brought her baby to the malnutrition clinic in Farchana. They're sitting under mosquito nets.

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  • Global Health

Sudanese refugees fled to Chad with hope. What they found is a bitter irony

It is the world's largest displacement crisis: 13 million people have fled their homes in war-torn Sudan. In neighboring Chad, both refugees and locals cope with this extraordinary upheaval.

September 26, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis,
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • and 1 more
South Sudanese who fled from Sudan sit outside a nutrition clinic at a transit center in Renk, South Sudan, May 16, 2023. Fighting in Sudan has displaced 10 million people, according to U.N. figures.

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  • World

Nearly 120 million people were displaced around the world in 2023, UNHCR report says

The U.N. office on refugees found that by the end of last year, 1 in 69 people had been forced from their homes -- either within their own country or across an international border.

June 13, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a press conference in London on Monday regarding a treaty between Britain and Rwanda to transfer asylum-seekers to the African country.

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  • World

U.K. Parliament approves a plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda

The British government has pushed the plan as a way to deter asylum-seekers from taking boats to Britain. But the U.N. human rights office has warned aviation authorities not to take part.

April 23, 2024
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By:
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
Muhammad Zaman, author of the book <em>We Wait for a Miracle</em><em>,</em> in his lab at Boston University.

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  • Global Health

Q&A: Author Muhammad Zaman on why health care is an impossible dream for 'unpersons'

In his new book, We Wait for a Miracle, Zaman tells how about the struggle for health care by forcibly displaced people — refugees, the internally displaced, the stateless.

January 15, 2024
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By:
  • Tanya Basu and
  • Gisele Grayson
Arfat Ahmed, age 10, photographed on Nov. 8, 2022 as he returns to his family's dwelling with gourd leaves to cook for dinner. This is one of the photos by the four Rohingya photographers honored for drawing attention to the plight of what the U.N. has called the "world's most persecuted minority."

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  • Global Health

Prize-winning photos by Rohingya: Unseen life in the world's largest refugee camp

Since 2017 nearly a million Rohingya people have languished in camps in Bangladesh. Four young Rohingya are being honored by the U.N. refugee agency for documenting their life in vivid photos.

December 24, 2023
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By:
  • Gabriel Spitzer
Protesters stand outside the Supreme Court in London on Wednesday.

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  • World

The U.K. Supreme Court has struck down a plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda

In a major defeat for the British prime minister, the Supreme Court has ruled the government's migrant plan is unlawful and would put asylum-seekers at risk of deportation back home.

November 15, 2023
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By:
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
Afghan families ride on a truck heading to a border crossing in Torkham, Pakistan, Tuesday, before the expiration of a Pakistani deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation. Pakistan's crackdown has worried thousands of Afghans in the country awaiting relocation to the United States under a special refugee program since fleeing the Taliban takeover.

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  • World

In a new expulsion campaign, Pakistan is forcing many Afghans out of the country

Pakistan has drawn criticism for warning those living in the country illegally to leave or be arrested and deported after Oct. 31. The U.N. says over 2 million undocumented Afghans live in Pakistan.

October 31, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Roman (left) is a Ukrainian refugee who works at ComDel Innovation in Wahpeton, N.D. CEO Jim Albrecht (right) says the company has been working with a program called Uniting For Ukraine that provides a legal pathway for Ukrainians to come to the U.S. and work for up to two years.

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  • National

Immigrants are coming to North Dakota for jobs. Not everyone is glad to see them

The immigrant population is growing fast in states far from the southern border. Employers in North Dakota say the economy needs more workers, but there's still deep ambivalence about immigration.

October 26, 2023
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By:
  • Joel Rose
The SpaceX headquarters is seen, May 25, 2012, in Hawthorne, Calif. On Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against SpaceX, the rocket company founded and run by Elon Musk, for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and people seeking or already granted asylum.

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  • Law

The Justice Department is suing SpaceX for allegedly not hiring refugees and asylees

The agency says SpaceX often said in its marketing materials for open jobs they couldn't hire U.S. citizens because of export control laws. But asylees and refugees are protected under those laws.

August 26, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
About 2 million people in Burkina Faso have been displaced during the current conflict, including these individuals in Gampela, who fled jihadists' attacks.

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  • Global Health

Ukraine gets the attention. This country's crisis is the world's 'most neglected'

Burkina Faso has fallen into conflict and chaos but humanitarian aid for the displaced hasn't kept up. The Norwegian Refugee Council calls it the most neglected displacement crisis.

July 08, 2023
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By:
  • Gabriel Spitzer
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