A series of report on the occasion on World Refugee Day,.First report is about Adieu Achul who faced a bleak future. Her family was slaughtered when she was a youngster in what is now South Sudan, and she grew up in the Kenyan refugee camp of Dadaab. Achul has worked hard to establish himself as an entrepreneur and activist, and he also collects money for camp inmates. From Nairobi, Juma Majanga tells her experience.
According to the United Nations, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes around the world will reach 82.4 million by the end of 2020, the greatest number ever. In advance of World Refugee Day on Sunday, June 20, VOA’s Laurel Bowman has more on the UN’s annual report.
Burkina Faso’s 1.2 million internally displaced persons have been called the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian disaster by the United Nations, but the government refuses to recognise thousands of IDPs who are left without assistance. Over a million IDPs residing in official camps have been denied access to the media. In this report from Ouagadougou, reporter Henry Wilkins chronicles a day in the life of a “invisible” IDP.
After spent much of their youth fleeing Islamist violence and dealing with trauma, Malian refugees Amiri Ag Abdoulaye and Mohammed Ould Najim met in a Burkina Faso refugee camp. The young guys enrolled in a programme developed by an internationally renowned Burkinabè dancer that teaches marginalised youngsters how to use dance as a vehicle for healing and reconciliation. This is a report from Ouagadougou by Clair MacDougall.
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About one-fifth of Bangladesh’s ready-made garment factories do not meet fire, electrical and structural safety standards 11 years after the collapse of Rana Plaza that left more than 1,100 garment workers dead, according to an industry monitoring body.
Lawmakers in the Solomon Islands elect a new prime minister.Southeast Asia May Day protests. Record heat wave temperatures. Why sumo wrestlers held crying babies.
According to a new report by Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, which was published in the journal Nature, the average income of people around the world will be cut by one-fifth by the middle of the century due to climate change.
Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, has made significant strides since its tumultuous birth in 2002, but the economic impact of the plunder of resources of centuries of Portuguese colonial rule and the looting, pillage, and large-scale destruction of property during a 24-year Indonesian occupation can still be felt today.
From allowing captive-bred lion hunting to selling lion bones to East Asia for their alleged “medicinal” qualities, South Africa’s treatment of its big cats has long tarnished its reputation for conservation. However, the country is now ending all of that.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meets with the Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls.
Despite college administrations’ warnings, anti-Gaza war protests on campuses are still going strong and new ones are being launched.
Police in the Philippines have arrested three men suspected in the killing of community radio broadcaster Juan Jumalon, who was gunned down while broadcasting live on Facebook.