A series of report on the occasion on World Refugee Day,.First report is about Adieu Achul who faced a bleak future. Her family was slaughtered when she was a youngster in what is now South Sudan, and she grew up in the Kenyan refugee camp of Dadaab. Achul has worked hard to establish himself as an entrepreneur and activist, and he also collects money for camp inmates. From Nairobi, Juma Majanga tells her experience.
According to the United Nations, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes around the world will reach 82.4 million by the end of 2020, the greatest number ever. In advance of World Refugee Day on Sunday, June 20, VOA’s Laurel Bowman has more on the UN’s annual report.
Burkina Faso’s 1.2 million internally displaced persons have been called the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian disaster by the United Nations, but the government refuses to recognise thousands of IDPs who are left without assistance. Over a million IDPs residing in official camps have been denied access to the media. In this report from Ouagadougou, reporter Henry Wilkins chronicles a day in the life of a “invisible” IDP.
After spent much of their youth fleeing Islamist violence and dealing with trauma, Malian refugees Amiri Ag Abdoulaye and Mohammed Ould Najim met in a Burkina Faso refugee camp. The young guys enrolled in a programme developed by an internationally renowned Burkinabè dancer that teaches marginalised youngsters how to use dance as a vehicle for healing and reconciliation. This is a report from Ouagadougou by Clair MacDougall.
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A bear strolling the backyard patio of Katie Cole’s children’s swimming pool in the vicinity of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA.
An indigenous dog breed from Macedonia is the Macedonian Shepherd Dog – Karaman.The breed originated from indigenous mountain shepherd dogs that were used to protect herds in the Macedonian mountains for centuries.
Web applications are protected from cyberattacks by AI-powered web application firewalls (WAFs) security solution.AI-WAF analyzes incoming web traffic, detects potential threats, and takes proactive steps to prevent them using cutting-edge machine learning algorithms and AI techniques.
Chinese authorities in Xinjiang’s regional capital Urumqi on July 4 arrested two Uyghur sisters and their mother for sending goods to their eldest sister in Turkey, and a third sister was arrested a week later, the eldest told Radio Free Asia.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the opening session of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference Meteorological Forum.
After being shot in the head, a seal pup found in a tidal basin in Washington is recovering.According to Casey McLean, executive director and veterinary nurse at Sealife Response, Rehab and Research, or SR3, the harbor seal is making progress on its way to recovery, WLBT3 reports.
The newest cat breed Transylvanian, which originated in the mountainous Carpathian regions, especially in Poland and Hungary, has a distinctive coat pattern with black and white-silver hairs showing on the face, ears, tail, and paws.
Zero-day attacks take use of unknown vulnerabilities in firmware, hardware, or software before developers have a chance to fix them.