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June 18, 2012

Choices- World Refugee Day – 20 June 2012

Posted 5:50pm

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonMessage on World Refugee Day More than 42 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes and communities. More than a million fled their countries in the last eighteen months alone due to a wave of conflicts, in Cote d’Ivoire, Libya, Mali, Somalia, Sudan and Syria. These numbers represent… Read more »

March 13, 2012

South Sudan: UN mission responds to new outbreak of violence in Jonglei state

Posted 7:25pm

Hold the people of South Sudan – particularly the people living in Jonglei state – in prayer. They again face violence.