In an empty desert in Azraq, ... including nearly 600,000 now in Jordan — 120,000 of them in the Zaatari refugee camp. U.N. officials predict the crisis is going to get markedly worse. ...

Geneva - Two of the UN's leading humanitarian agencies today appealed to donor countries to provide at least US$1.2 million each month mainly for urgently needed food aid for Western Saharan refugees ...

In the middle of the Sahara desert on the western border of Algeria, refugee camps hosting tens of thousands of people rely completely on humanitarian aid: Water, food, and other basic supplies ...

AZRAQ CAMP, Jordan, April 30 (UNHCR) - After a dangerous 1,000-kilometre journey to escape the violence in Syria, Abu Saleh and his family made the night-time crossing into neighbouring Jordan not ...

ZHARE DASHT, Afghanistan -- Cloaked in billowing clouds of blinding sand, the United Nation's newest refugee camp has opened in the midst of a vast, forbidding desert. But for Ghulam Haider and ...

From the deep desert camps in Algeria near the border with Morocco where Sahrawi refugees have lived for decades, the latest diplomatic moves to resolve the long-frozen conflict over their ...

Aqabat Jaber refugee camp houses thousands of Palestinians who have lived there since fleeing or being evicted from their homes in 1948 during Israel’s founding.

"Aman Omid Village," the massive refugee camp at Holloman Air Force Base, was just months ago a barren desert. Rows of tents spanning 50-acres were erected in the final days of the fall of Kabul ...

At a dust-blown refugee camp in the Jordanian desert, Ayham Qaddah hugs the only member of his immediate family to survive the rocket which struck his home in Syria's southern province of Deraa ...

Ten young students and four teachers from the remote Saharawi refugee camps in southwest Algeria will visit London for the ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There are now more than 80 million refugees around the world, according to the United Nations, many who live in refugee camps where conditions can be cramped and mean and pitiable.