Two-year-old Neema accompanied her mother and older brother, who were on foot, to a camp in Tanzania. ... Neema was among panelists at the first Eastern Iowa Refugee Summit in Iowa City.

IOWA CITY – Being a refugee is hard. ... Ntwari, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spoke of living in refugee camps across Africa after his father died as a result of war in 1997.

However, as legal U.S. residents, refugees may live in any city and state they choose. The IRC in Iowa City provides a safe place to live, a furnished apartment, access to quality health care services ...

IOWA CITY - For Diego de Jesus Ayestas Romero, going from Honduras to the United States came at a high cost. His daughter, Carla Maria, died in the family's first attempt in November as part of ...

Several years later, then-Gov. Bob Ray pledged to accept 1,500 more refugees from camps in Malaysia. More recently, Iowa since 2012 has taken in more than 1,700 refugees from nearly 100 nations ...

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Johnson County United Nations Association president: Join us Dec. 6 to learn about refugee struggles and accomplishments, as well as ways to help.

Fatiya Adam is a native of Ethiopia. She came to the United States 20 years ago after spending a decade in a refugee camp in Kenya. “My family was fleeing a war, a conflict between tribes ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa has attracted more international refugees in the last two years than it has since 2001, when terrorist attacks helped end an immigration boom from ...

A report by Escucha Mi Voz, an Iowa City immigrants’ rights group, found that more than a third of the nearly 500 immigrants and refugees surveyed in Johnson County live in multi-family households, ...