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More than 3,000 Malawians, including hundreds of children, are staying in an open field in South Africa’s port city of Durban, after fleeing escalating anti-immigrant threats and attacks. The unrest is pushing thousands to seek an escape. Nigeria repatriated a first group of 260 nationals on...

At least 117.8 million people, or one in 70 individuals worldwide, remain forcibly displaced, according to a report - released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today. Almost three-quarters (72 percent) of all refugees came from just seven countries: Venezuela (6.4 million...

Pakistan has renewed deadly air strikes on neighboring Afghanistan, officials in both countries said Wednesday, in the worst violence in weeks following a period of relative calm. Pakistan's government said on Wednesday that 26 "militants" linked to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan group were killed...

Afghan authorities cracked down on a protest in western Afghanistan Tuesday against the arrest and detention of more than a dozen women over dress code violations, with eyewitnesses saying police opened fire, leaving at least three people injured. About 100-150 people were participating in the...

At least 360 people kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists from a mainly Muslim community in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state in March have been freed from a remote mountain hideout. Mass abductions by armed groups for ransom have become a common tactic in Nigeria in recent years — and though it is...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran is putting millions of people at risk of hunger. In an analysis, the WFP said the continuation of the conflict’s effect on oil prices has “profound implications” for global food...

In Ecuador, violent drug cartels have arrived from around the world to secure cocaine trafficking routes to the coast and homicide rates have skyrocketed. President Daniel Noboa has pinned his hopes of lowering the violence on heavy police and military deployments across the country. In doing so...

Violence has erupted in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, as government forces and opposition-allied militias have exchanged fire before an antigovernment protest, damaging buildings and forcing residents to flee. Fighting began before planned protests against President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s decision...

Israel’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a government policy banning representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. The court ruled that by preventing the Red Cross from visiting prisoners, the government had...

A cyber-attack targeting the World Food Programme (WFP) has exposed sensitive personal information belonging to some 600,000 households in Gaza, the UN’s food agency has confirmed, in what may be the largest-known breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date. The exposed information included...