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A Liberian refugee is help by medical staff after disembarking from a stricken ferry docked at the main port in Abidjan May 21, 2004. Hundreds of Liberian refugees stranded at sea off West Africa for days without food or water arrived in Ivory Coast on Friday after a French frigate towed their crippled ferry to safety. Picture taken May 21. REUTERS/Luc Gnago
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A Palestinian boy carry his families belongings as Israeli army bulldozers and tanks coming towards his home, during heavy shooting in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip May 23, 2004. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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An Afghan refugee family waits at a refugee camp before their departure from Islamabad to Afghanistan May 6, 2004. Thousands of Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland as part of the UNHCR repatriation programme. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood
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A Banyamulenge refugee woman from Congo rests as she arrives at an improvised tent camp in Gatumba, western Burundi June 11, 2004 fleeing the eastern city of Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, saying they were accused by neighbours of supporting dissident Congolese soldiers who briefly took over the town of Bukavu earlier this month. More than 2,800 Congolese Tutsis fleeing what they call ethnic persecution have poured across the border to Burundi and in neighbouring Rwanda aid workers reported up to 5,000 refugees at one transit camp. REUTERS/ Jean Pierre Aimé Harerimana
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A Palestinian woman stands with her daughter inside her damage house at the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip, May 25,2004. The Israeli army destroyed 45 Palestinian buildings, making 575 people homeless, during a six- day operation in a refugee camp in southern Gaza, the U.N. relief agency UNRWA said on Tuesday. REUTERS/ Mohammed Salem
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A Palestinian boy is carried on a bicycle as they leave home in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip May 23, 2004. A senior cabinet member Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid touched a sensitive nerve in Israel on Sunday by appearing to compare its destruction of Palestinian homes in Rafah refugee camp to Nazi atrocities against Jews during the Holocaust. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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Congo refugees take shelter inside the UN compound in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in this picture released by United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) on June 7, 2004. The European Union is considering sending troops to eastern Congo after rebels captured the key town of Bukavu last week, threatening the country's fragile peace process, Belgium's Foreign Minister said on Monday. (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) REUTERS/HO/ MONUC
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A malnourished refugee child awaits treatment at a hospital in Kutum in Sudan's western Darfur region, June 4, 2004. More than a year of fighting has created what the United Nations has branded one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Sudan's civil war has been raging for 21 years. REUTERS/ Arnold Temple
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France shocked by Afghan deaths, questions asked
ANALYSIS-Georgia war shows Russian army strong but flawed
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UNHCR begins aid distribution in western Georgia
CONGO: Government sets sights on infant mortality
The IRC Distributes Hygiene Items to Georgia's Displaced
Release: Murder of a national employee of ACTED in the region of Kunduz (Afghanistan)
UMCOR Hotline for August 19, 2008
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Georgia: Refugees are being supported by SOS Children's Villages


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