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All Africa (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... which also continued through the night," UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman Ron Redmond told a news briefing in Geneva. "Altogether, four IDPs were wounded and taken to a local hospital."Fighting in North Kivu intensified at the end of 2006. By January 2008, it had brought the total number of IDPs in the region to more than 800,000. Since fighting resumed in August, some...
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MSNBC.com: Middle East and North Af (Free subscription) | yesterday
updated 8:16 a.m. ET Dec. 2, 2008GENEVA - At least 20 people drowned after smugglers forced their passengers overboard off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. The boat was carrying 115 passengers, mainly Ethiopians, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman Ron Redmond said. Some 20 bodies were recovered, two people remain missing, and 93 others...
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 2 December 2008, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.UNHCR is continuing today the voluntary transfer of displaced Congolese civilians from the precarious Kibati camps on the northern outskirts of Goma, the provincial capital of the Democratic Republic of the...
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UNHCR (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gulf of Aden: 20 die as smugglers force migrants overboard This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 2 December 2008, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. At least 20 people drowned off the coast of Yemen yesterday (Monday) and two were reported missing after smugglers carrying them across the Gulf...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
"At least 20 people drowned off the coast of Yemen yesterday and two were reported missing after smugglers carrying them across the Gulf of Aden from the Horn of Africa forced them to jump overboard in deep water," said Ron Redmond, a spokesman for UNHCR.
