Bangladeshi police say four suspected members of a Rohingya group allegedly involved in kidnapping for ransom were killed in a gunfight with security officials near the sprawling refugee camps where refugees from Myanmar live
The family of a prominent Egyptian pro-democracy activist arrested amid a clampdown following anti-government protests last year said his youngest sister has been detained
In the sprawling camps for the displaced of Sudan’s Darfur, officials say people are falling sick and dying at astonishing rates
In a story June 13, 2020, about the suspected spread of the coronavirus in Darfur, Sudan, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the spike in deaths is occurring in refugee camps
The U.N. refugee agency says that more than 94,000 people have been displaced and forced to flee their homes in several parts of Yemen since January
Before the coronavirus pandemic, Tariq Nawaz’s monthly paycheck of $95 barely paid the bills, especially the medical costs for a baby daughter who has polio
A rights lawyer says a doctor and the father of three girls will be tried in an Egyptian criminal court after the doctor allegedly surgically removed the girls’ genitalia
Authorities in Bangladesh are releasing hundreds of child suspects facing mostly charges of petty crimes to avoid spreading of coronavirus in overcrowded detention centers
Authorities in Bangladesh have confirmed the first death of a Rohingya refugee from the coronavirus, as infections rise in sprawling camps where more than 1 million Rohingya Muslims have been living since fleeing from neighboring Myanmar
