The United Nations has evacuated about 325 refugees from a government-run detention center in Tripoli after some were allegedly attacked for protesting bad conditions. Fighting between rival governments in Libya has made living in and near the capital …
Cyclone Idai’s recent devastation was amplified by deforestation in the region. Mozambique took the hardest hit. The country has seen between 10 and 15 percent of its forests disappear amid illegal logging and charcoal production in the past 25 years.M…
Driven from its self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria, Islamic State is down but not out.Where once they confronted armies, the extremist Islamist group’s adherents have now staged hit-and-run raids and suicide attacks. In some cases, the group has c…
Two thirds of the world’s refugees live in cities, yet they are all too often an invisible underclass, left to fend for themselves without support.Urban refugees typically choose to stay in cities rather than remote camps in the hope of finding work, c…
