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Aug 18, 2021

Turkey offers to mediate between Ethiopia and Sudan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is urging Ethiopian leaders to find a peaceful resolution to the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia that has displaced tens of thousands and left millions hungry

Aug 10, 2021

Bangladesh vaccinating Rohingya refugees amid virus surge

Bangladesh’s government and aid agencies have started vaccinating Rohingya refugees as a virus surge raises health risks in the camps

Jul 29, 2021

Floods make thousands homeless in Bangladesh Rohingya camps

Days of heavy rainfall have pelted Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, destroying dwellings and sending thousands of people to live with extended family or in communal shelters

Turkey officially withdraws from treaty protecting women

Jul 1, 2021

Turkey has formally withdrawn from a landmark international treaty protecting women from violence

Jun 25, 2021

Death row inmates in Sri Lanka protest ex-lawmaker's pardon

Prison officials say about 150 death row inmates in Sri Lanka have begun a hunger strike to demand their sentences be commuted to life in prison

May 17, 2021

Afghans who helped the US now fear being left behind

Interpreters and other Afghan civilians who served the U.S. and NATO fear Taliban reprisals with the looming withdrawal of troops from their country after two decades of war

May 9, 2021

Sudan says Ethiopian peacekeepers deported to refugee camp

Sudanese authorities have deported around three dozen Ethiopian peacekeepers, working in the U.N. mission in Darfur, to a refugee camp

May 4, 2021

Deaths at sea highlight failings in Europe migration policy

When more than 100 Africans hoping to reach Europe on a rubber boat called repeatedly for help in late April, a rescue never came

Former Turkish prime minister Yildirim Akbulut dies aged 85

Apr 14, 2021

Turkey's state-run news agency says Yildirim Akbulut, who served as prime minister during the First Gulf War and also oversaw an influx of ethnic Turkish refugees from Bulgaria to Turkey, has died at age 85

Apr 8, 2021

Turkey rejects claims of sexist snub towards von der Leyen

Turkey is rejecting accusations that it snubbed Ursula von der Leyen — one of the European Union’s most powerful executives — during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan because of her gender