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Ahmed Abd al-Karim al-Saadi

It is assumed that his brother Abu Tarek has assumed control of Osbat al-Ansar while Abu Mohjen remains in hiding either in Iraq or in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh.

Baggio Husidić

Hušidić and his family fled Bosnia in the mid-1990s to escape the conflict, spending time in a refugee camp in southern Croatia, and living in Hamburg in Germany for several years, before eventually settling in Libertyville, Illinois in 1997, and growing up as a US citizen.

Front Polisario Khat al-Shahid

It is based in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria, but also claims to has supporters and members in the Sahrawi diaspora in Mauritania, Morocco, Spain, France and various European countries, as well as in the Moroccan-controlled part of Western Sahara.

Khao-I-Dang

The most enduring refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border, it was established in late 1979 and administered by the Thai Ministry of the Interior and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) -- unlike other camps on the border, which were administered by a coalition made up of UNICEF, the World Food Program, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (briefly) and, after 1982, the United Nations Border Relief Operation (UNBRO).

Laaroussien

Laaroussien Sahrawis are present both in the Tindouf refugee camps of Algeria, headquarters of the nationalist and independence-seeking Polisario Front, and in their traditional home areas of Western Sahara; these are situated west of the Moroccan Wall, and thus under Moroccan rule.

RISE International

Rise was founded by Dr. Andrew Cole (born in Angola 1953 - 2004) May 2000, Dr. Cole led a short-term relief mission team to the Osire Refugee camp in Namibia.

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Day-to-day business, however, is conducted in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria, which house most of the Sahrawi exile community.

Task Force ALBA

The primary purpose of the operation was to supply the Refugee camp around the northern Albanian town of Kukës, near the border with Kosovo.


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1979 Nahariya attack

The day after the attack, Israeli Navy gunboats bombarded Nahr el-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut described by an Israeli military spokesman as a major base for the PFLP.

Africa Humanitarian Action

AHA worked in the Viana(refugee camp) with IDPs from the provinces of Malange, Moxico and Kwanza.

Al-Barakat

Mohammed Sulaymon Barre was a Somali, living in a Pakistani refugee camp, who worked for a Somalia hawala named Dahabshiil, that JTF-GTMO analysts asserted had ties to al-Barakat.

Bagnoli

An appalling atrocity by the Western Allies was knowingly committed at the refugee camp after World War II as part of "Operation Keelhaul" which was the last forced repatriation from Bagnoli as well as other refugee camps at Aversa, Pisa, and Riccione, of about one thousand displaced people who were categorized correctly, or incorrectly, as ex-Soviet citizens.

Batnoga

In 1994 it was used as refugee camp for refugees from Western Bosnia.

Benish Mininberg

In 1917, Mininberg's family was forced to evacuate to a refugee camp set up in a eucalyptus forest in Kfar Saba.

David Zabel

Zabel and R. Scott Gemmill were awarded the Humanitas Prize in the 60 minutes category in 2007 for their script for the twelfth season episode "There Are No Angels Here" which followed doctors from the Chicago set series performing aid work in a refugee camp in Darfur.

Dawa'a al-Jihad

Dawa'a al-Jihad (Arabic: "Convert and Struggle") was a militant university established at an Afghan refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, by Abdul Rasul Sayyaf in the 1980s.

Donington Hall

They retained the Hall, which after the Soviet Army ensured a Communist regime in Hungary, became a refugee camp for those who came to the East Midlands.

Fatah al-Islam

In November 2006 the Palestinian security committee in Al-Badawi refugee camp in Tripoli handed over two members of al-Abssi's group to Lebanese military intelligence.

Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center

Fort Chaffee, located just outside of Fort Smith (Sebastian County) and Barling (Sebastian County) on Arkansas Highway 22, has served the United States as an army training camp, a prisoner of war camp, and a refugee camp.

Galang

Galang Refugee Camp, a refugee camp that accommodated Indochinese refugees from 1979 to 1996

Gyrotonic

After spending 6 months in a refugee camp in Italy, Horvath was granted asylum in the United States, subsequently dancing professionally with the New York City Opera and the Houston Ballet.

Human trafficking in Montenegro

In October 2009, the government, in partnership with an NGO forum, conducted training on recognizing trafficked children in an orphanage in Bijela and among Roma children in the Konik refugee camp in Podgorica.

In a Better World

Anton (Mikael Persbrandt) is a Swedish doctor who commutes between his home in Denmark and his work in a Sudanese refugee camp.

The film stars Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, and Ulrich Thomsen in a story which takes place in small-town Denmark and a refugee camp in Africa.

International Academy – LEAP

However, with the influx of new immigrants from the Wat Tham Krabok refugee camp in Thailand, the name was changed to reflect a more clear image and mission of the school.

Jane Tewson

Her response to the African famine, Comic Relief was launched on Christmas Day 1985 from the refugee camp in Safawa, Sudan, (Helen Fielding's novel Cause Celeb, 1994, may be partially based on the launch).

John Dear

He spent two years doing graduate philosophy studies at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York (1984–1986), and lived and worked for the Jesuit Refugee Service in a refugee camp in El Salvador for three months in 1985.

Kalandia

In 1949, UNWRA established a refugee camp in the area, 11 kilometers from Jerusalem, for Palestinians refugees from Lydda, Ramle and Jerusalem victims of the 1948 Palestinian exodus.

Lakshmi Chand Jain

During the partition of India (1947), he was put in charge of the refugee camp at Kingsway Camp in North Delhi.

Living Darfur

The music video, funded by Mick Jagger and set in a refugee camp, aims to raise awareness for Darfur and catch the attention of the United Nations.

Luise Radlmeier

Radlmeier expanded her efforts by 1990, as young Sudanese fled to Nairobi from the desperate conditions in the refugee camp at Kakuma, nearly 700 kilometers to the north.

Oskar Herman

In the war years, Herman joined Partisan forces and was captured and confined the refugee camp (1942–44) of Ferramonti-Tarsia, in Calabria, southern Italy.

Project Gaia

Project Gaia is currently active in Awbarre refugee camp (formerly known as Teferi Ber) and Kebribeyah refugee camp, where all of the camp’s approximately 1780 families have CleanCook stoves and a daily ration of ethanol, funded cooperatively by the UNHCR and the Gaia Association.

Rwandan Patriotic Front

Two of the 27 people who were part of the 1981 NRA raid at Kabamba that began the war were Tutsi refugees: Fred Rwigyema and Paul Kagame, who had grown up together in Kahunge refugee camp and were both active members of RANU.

Sindhis in India

Adipur was founded by the government of India as a refugee camp.

Solar Cookers International

Since 1995, SCI has managed or co-managed solar cooking projects in the Nyakach district, Kenya; in the Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya; in the Aisha refugee camp, Ethiopia; in various communities, Zimbabwe; and in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya.

Stan Pilecki

Stan Pilecki (born February 4, 1947 in a refugee camp in Augustdorf, Germany) is a former Australian Rugby Union player with Polish roots.

Stichting INGKA Foundation

In 2011, the foundation reportedly donated 65 million euros; however, in that year plans were announced to increase the contributions to about 100 million euros per year, with 40 million euros over three years going to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya—the rest would be split between UN agencies such as UNICEF, UNHCR and UNDP, and Save the Children.

Timai refugee camp

To the east of the refugee camp flows the Tamai River, a tributary of the Mechi River.

Trương Như Tảng

Stopping there, they were picked up by UN ships and taken to a refugee camp on Galang Island, Indonesia.

Walther Wenck

As a result, the area of control of Wenck's army to his rear and east of the Elbe River had become a vast refugee camp for German civilians fleeing the path of the approaching Soviet forces.

Water For South Sudan

Then, as a teenager, he led 1500 "Lost Boys" hundreds of miles through the southern Sudan desert to the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.

Yarmouk Camp

Yarmouk is an "unofficial" refugee camp; it is home to the largest Palestinian refugee community in Syria.

Zef Mustafa

It was only later, he insisted, that he found out that he'd actually been born in a refugee camp in Trieste, Italy.

Zoya Phan

After ten months, Zoya and her older sister, Nant Bwa Bwa Phan, were able to get to Mae Sot in Thailand for three months, hoping for a chance to go to a university in Australia; however, this fell through, and they decided to complete their education at another refugee camp, Mae La.