A Liberian refugee is help by medical
staff after disembarking from a stricken
ferry docked at the main port in Abidjan
May 21, 2004. Hundreds of Liberian
refugees stranded at sea off West Africa
for days without food or water arrived
in Ivory Coast on Friday after a French
frigate towed their crippled ferry to
safety.
Picture taken May 21. REUTERS/Luc
Gnago
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A Palestinian boy carry his families
belongings as Israeli army bulldozers
and tanks coming towards his home,
during heavy shooting in the Rafah
refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip
May 23, 2004. REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
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An Afghan refugee family waits at a
refugee camp before their departure from
Islamabad to Afghanistan May 6, 2004.
Thousands of Afghan refugees have
returned to their homeland as part of
the UNHCR repatriation programme.
REUTERS/Faisal
Mahmood
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A Banyamulenge refugee woman from Congo
rests as she arrives at an improvised
tent camp in Gatumba, western Burundi
June 11, 2004 fleeing the eastern city
of Uvira in the eastern Democratic
Republic of Congo, saying they were
accused by neighbours of supporting
dissident Congolese soldiers who briefly
took over the town of Bukavu earlier
this month. More than 2,800 Congolese
Tutsis fleeing what they call ethnic
persecution have poured across the
border to Burundi and in neighbouring
Rwanda aid workers reported up to 5,000
refugees at one transit camp. REUTERS/
Jean Pierre Aimé
Harerimana
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A Palestinian woman stands with her
daughter inside her damage house at the
Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza
Strip, May 25,2004. The Israeli army
destroyed 45 Palestinian buildings,
making 575 people homeless, during a six-
day operation in a refugee camp in
southern Gaza, the U.N. relief agency
UNRWA said on Tuesday. REUTERS/
Mohammed
Salem
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A Palestinian boy is carried on a
bicycle as they leave home in the Rafah
refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip
May 23, 2004. A senior cabinet member
Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid
touched a sensitive nerve in Israel on
Sunday by appearing to compare its
destruction of Palestinian homes in
Rafah refugee camp to Nazi atrocities
against Jews during the Holocaust.
REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic
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Congo refugees take shelter inside the
UN compound in Bukavu, eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo in this
picture released by United Nations
Mission in the Democratic Republic of
Congo (MONUC) on June 7, 2004. The
European Union is considering sending
troops to eastern Congo after rebels
captured the key town of Bukavu last
week, threatening the country's fragile
peace process, Belgium's Foreign
Minister said on Monday. (EDITORIAL
USE ONLY) REUTERS/HO/
MONUC
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A malnourished refugee child awaits
treatment at a hospital in Kutum in
Sudan's western Darfur region, June 4,
2004. More than a year of fighting has
created what the United Nations has
branded one of the world's worst
humanitarian crises. Sudan's civil war
has been raging for 21 years. REUTERS/
Arnold
Temple
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