In this edition: Tough sentences handed down in the Angolagate arms trafficking trial; the Nelson Mandela foundation slams Congo-Brazzaville's leader; and the African Union adopts a convention offering protection to millions of uprooted Africans.
Amid questions over the fate of Sri Lanka’s war refugees, UN undersecretary-general for political affairs, Lynn Pascoe (right), voiced “strong concerns” that the government had been slow to resettle displaced civilians.
The United Nations has launched a $23.5 million appeal to help 150,000 people displaced in Yemen since 2004 by fighting between Shiite rebels and government troops. The UN estimates that 55,000 of them have fled since fighting intensified in July.
According to Chinese officials, 37,000 refugees streamed into the country from Burma following fighting in Kokang, a mainly ethnic Chinese region of Burma's Shan state. Some have now begun to return home, but fear more unrest.
Growing tensions between Burma's government and an armed ethnic group forced thousands of people to flee from Kokang in the north-eastern Shan state towards China. This new tensions are believed to be linked to next year's elections.
While Afghans back home vote in an election marred by violence, thousands of refugees are looking for asylum abroad. Here in a Paris park, Afghans refugees have joined Iranians and Kurds in setting up a makeshift camp.
France 24 meets ethnic Nepalese who were expelled from Bhutanin the 1990s. Almost 20 years after they were expelled, many are still living in wretched conditions in refugee camps.
A growing number of North Koreans are fleeing the hunger and repression under the ruthless rule of President Kim Jong-il. In an exclusive report, Alexandre Dereims followed a group of refugees ready to risk their lives to flee their country.
Hundreds of Pakistanis who fled a military assault on the Taliban were bussed home on Monday, after the government claimed last week that it had "eliminated" extremists in the Swat valley.
Ninety-two refugees arrived for a new life in France on Thursday under a pilot EU relocation scheme, aimed at spreading the burden of immigration around Europe.
