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Uganda hosts record 500,000 refugees and asylum-seekers

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Burundian refugee Larson talks with a customer at his pharmacy in Nakivale refugee settlement in Uganda.

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2015 likely to break records for forced displacement - study

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Central African Republic refugees at the Timangolo site in Cameroon, including mothers and young children, queue for food.

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Schulz at the EU summit: "It is easy to blame Europe or Schengen for security failures in our Member States"

"It is easy to blame Europe or Schengen for security failures in our Member States, and wave the illusion that retreating behind national borders somehow immunises against - often home-grown - terrorists", said the EP President Schulz in his opening...

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Syria: Senior UN official calls for immediate end to use of sexual violence by all sides as weapon of war

Welcoming the Security Council's unanimous adoption of a blueprint for peace in Syria, a senior United Nations official has called on all sides to immediately stop using sexual violence as a tactic in the fighting tearing the country apart.

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