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Three years after the quake, Haitian refugees fight Christmas misery

Children stand in front of the tent they call home, in Canape-Vert, Haiti, on Dec. 21, 2012. Photo via AFP.

While people around the world celebrate the arrival of Christmas, residents of a refugee camp in Haiti say hunger and want will mark the holiday, like every other day of the year. “There are no wreaths, no Christmas trees,” said Titelma Cherival, 54, still living in a makeshift refugee camp…

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In world first, biggest refugee camp gets university

Kenyan village via AFP

In world first, biggest refugee camp gets university Refugees in the world’s largest refugee camp will soon be able to go for higher education at the world’s first university being set up near a camp for its inhabitants. The campus is being set up by Kenya’s Kenyatta University (KU) near the…

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Funding crisis at world’s largest refugee camp

Somali boys fetch water after rainfall at the IFO-2 complex of the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya, via AFP

Aid agencies warned Thursday that a critical shortage of funds is threatening lives in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp complex, the world’s largest, risking worsening an already volatile security situation. “Tens of thousands of lives (are) at risk with money for vital services set to run out in two to three…

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