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November 4, 2011 - 
Fronteras Desk
Iraqi Refuge: A Long Wait For Reunification
SAN DIEGO — Hazim Jajo punched the international access code from a phone card into his cordless phone. His wife, Hanaa Ishaq, sat next to him on an ornate couch, in their new, spacious home east of San Diego.
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November 1, 2011 - 
BBC News
In pictures: Somalis flee north after Kenyan incursion

The number of Somali famine refugees flowing into Kenya has slowed to a trickle since Kenyan troops moved into Somalia in pursuit of Islamist al-Shabab militants.

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October 12, 2011 - 
The New York Times
One Girl’s Courage

KENEMA, Sierra Leone Early one morning, I came across the actress Eva Mendes, crying. She said that she was overwhelmed by all the girls she had met here in Sierra Leone who had been raped -- and by her inability to help.

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October 12, 2011 - 
International Herald Tribune - The New York Times (Global Edition)
Hundreds of Thousands Still Displaced From Ivory Coast War
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Ivorians displaced by a post-election civil war this year remain too afraid of reprisals to go home and some are living in squalid conditions, increasingly in need of help, several aid agencies warned this week.
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October 9, 2011 - 
The New York Times
Refugees in U.S. Take Up Farming

SAN DIEGO — At the Saturday farmer’s market in City Heights, a major portal for refugees, Khadija Musame, a Somali, arranges her freshly picked pumpkin leaves and lablab beans amid a United Nations of produce, including water spinach grown by a Cambodian refugee and amaranth, a grain harvested by...

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October 8, 2011 - 
The New York Times
In This Rape Center, the Patient Was 3

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone IN a rape treatment center here, I met a 3-year-old patient named Jessica, who was cuddling a teddy bear. Jessica had seemed sick and was losing weight, but she wouldn’t say what was wrong.

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October 5, 2011 - 
Chicago Tribune
Globe-trotting beneficial to taste buds, world peace
Born in Illinois, raised in Hawaii and now a resident of British Columbia, Canada, actress Sarah Wayne Callies stars as Lori Grimes on the hit AMC series "The Walking Dead.
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October 3, 2011 - 
UN Multimedia
Helping refugees rebuild their lives
The International Rescue Committee has been helping refugees rebuild their lives since 1933. It is one of the not-for-profit agencies that works with the UN to help refugees around the world with everything from resettlement to housing to job placement.
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