In Mali, the Tuaregs who once fought for Muammar Gaddafi have returned home with a new quest for independence. However, their clashes with government troops have forced 30,000 people from their homes. In Nigeria, religious violence has both Christians and Muslims on edge. Our reporters meet refugees lost in the chaos with no help in sight. Finally, the Africa Cup of Nations heads into the final with Zambia facing Ivory Coast.
Despite the introduction of new legislation, known as the "anti-infiltration bill", which can send those who enter Israel illegally to prison for up to three years, authorities are struggling to keep the flow of immigrants in check. Most of Israel's African immigrants remain in limbo and are unable to work because of the documents they are given. Our Middle East correspondent Gallagher Fenwick reports.
The UN humanitarian co-ordinator for South Sudan told Reuters on Monday that between 20,000 and 50,000 people have fled the newly-formed nation to escape the ongoing tribal warfare. South Sudan became independent in July 2011.
At least 38 Haitian migrants were killed when their boat sank after being stranded at sea. Another 87 people were rescued on Saturday and moved to a migrants camp at Point Maisi off the Cuban coast.
Three generations of war have pushed waves of Afghan refugees beyond the borders of their homeland. Today three million Afghans live abroad, more than half of them having settled in Iran and Pakistan. The UN has a programme in Pakistan to help people return home. But fear of returning to a country at war, and of a precarious day-to-day life, means ever fewer refugees are making the move.
A refugee camp in the newly independent nation of South Sudan was hit by an air strike near the border with Sudan on Thursday. A South Sudanese official accused Sudan's military of carrying out the bombing, charges the army denies.
Dadaab, in Kenya, is the world’s largest refugee camp. Over 400,000 exiled Somalis live in this gigantic city of canvas, under the unforgiving glare of the African sun. NGOs are there to help, and despite the difficulties, most of the refugees are able to subsist on handouts. Yet, a few hundred kilometres away, in Kenya’s Turkana district, pastoralists are starving to death.
Stuck in a limbo at Libya’s borders, sub-Saharan African refugees fleeing the Libyan conflict have been abandoned by the EU, according to an Amnesty International report. It could have grave consequences – for the refugees and for Europe.
Hundreds of Sudanese have been forced to live in caves in a bid to escape a bombing campaign by the military. Amnesty and Human Rights Watch accuse the government of indiscriminately bombing rebel-held areas in oil-rich South Kordofan state. Our correspondents visited a cave complex high up in the Nuba Mountains, where they found women, children and the elderly seeking shelter. This is their exclusive report.
The Montenegrin government wants to exploit the country’s hydropower potential, but environmentalists are up in arms against dam projects on the beautiful Moroca river. Our reporter also met Roma refugees from Kosovo who have spent the last ten years in a camp near Podgorica. Finally, we tell you about mysterious medieval stones, and we visit the country through the artistic eyes of a cinema professor.
