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In 2014, the Beijing Declaration on Fighting Corruption was adopted by APEC leaders, marking the first major step by Chinese authorities in the international battle to root out corruption. Since then, a series of additional steps have been made. Foll
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 June 2007 Pakistan this weekend is closing two camps for Afghan refugees. The U.N. refugee agency is urging the government of Pakistan to make sure the closure goes peacefully. Violent clashes occurred in mid-May when Pakist
AZUZ: Next, the political crisis in the European nation of Spain. The government of Catalonia, a region of Spain, says its people have earned the right to independence. It says 90 percent of those who voted in a controversial referendum on Sunday wer
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 December 2006 Africa has the highest infant and under-five child-mortality rate in the world. It also has the lowest life expectancy at birth. The statistics paint a grim picture of what it means to be a child in Africa. Th
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 23 February 2006 A Paris gang leader suspected of taking part in the brutal killing of a French Jewish man faces quick repatriation to France, after being caught in Ivory Coa
By Phuong Tran Dodel, Senegal 18 March 2007 During the final campaign week in Mauritania's second round of the presidential election, two white Arab candidates are trying to court the sizable black vote in a country long divided by color and ethnici
By Nico Colombant Dakar 17 March 2008 Police in Ghana have arrested Liberian refugees who were leading protests at a camp outside the capital Accra. The refugees had refused to stop their month-long demonstration against a U.N.-funded repatriation pr
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 29 March 2006 Nigeria directed the immediate extradition of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, to Liberia shortly after he was detained while trying to flee into Cameroon
The U.N. refugee agency reports 42 million people were forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution at the end of last year. In its annual report, the UNHCR said most of the world's refugees and internally displaced people are in developing countri
By Scott Stearns Dakar 25 September 2009 People waiting to be registered for assistance in the city of Rosso, Mauritania, 25 Sep 2009 Flooding in Mauritania may delay the start of the school year as people displaced by heavy rains are living in clas
By Lisa Bryant Paris 22 September 2009 After vowing for months to shut down an illegal immigrant camp near Calais, the French government began dismantling it, early Tuesday. Heavy equipment is used to clear the makeshift camp known as the 'Jungle' a
By Jordan Davis Dakar 05 February 2007 African immigrants arrive in a fishing boat carrying 60 to the port of Los Cristianos, in the Canary island of Tenerife, Spain, 1 Feb 2007 Mauritania says it is denying landing rights to a disabled boat carrying
The UN refugee agency says it is running out of money to help Southern Sudan refugees go home. The UNHCR says it has a shortfall of $11.9 million. It warns it will be forced to shut down the repatriation operation this year if it does not get the mo
By Mandy Clark Kabul 02 June 2008 Pakistan recently began closing its largest camp for Afghan refugees out of fear that remnants of the Taliban had been using it as a hideout. Now, more than 70,000 Afghans are being uprooted once more. Many are maki
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 07 November 2007 Nearly 50 migrants from West Africa died off the coast of Mauritania this week, when their boat became stranded as they tried to make the dangerous and illegal crossing to Europe. The incident is one of the wo
By Kari Barber/Prince Collins Dakar, Monrovia 13 June 2007 Hundreds of thousands of Liberian refugees, displaced by more than a decade of civil war, have returned to the country. For many, coming home offers few opportunities as the economy struggles
Ethnic Tuareg rebels in Mali have released a group of government soldiers that they were holding hostage. The rebels say the move comes as a demonstration of good faith following talks with the government last month. Brent Latham reports from our We
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