14/01/2018
“It was difficult for me to forge my identity because I did not fit into society’s boxes”
Human Wrongs Watch
Mozambican Ngulinda’s story is part of the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) series: “i am a migrant“.*
Ngulinda — 7,903 km from home — Current Country: Portugal– Country of Origin: Mozambique — Photo Credit: IOM/Tiago Figueiredo
14/01/2018
Central African Refugees, Exiled across the River, Long for Home
Human Wrongs Watch
By Chiara Cavalcanti and Vania Turner*
Kpakpo, Nord-Ubangi Province, 12 January 2018 (UNHCR)*
Over 60,000 people from Central African Republic have fled across the Ubangi River to the northwestern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo since fighting erupted in May.
A Central African refugee cleans his fishing net in the village of Satema.
© UNHCR/John Wessels
Jean-Pierre Rondossi gestures across the Ubangi River towards the other bank, pointing to where his home and his heart lie.
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A 10-minute canoe ride away are the charred ruins of the village of Wapale, in the war-torn Central African Republic (CAR), which he and his family fled in fear in May last year as fighting between rival armed groups drew near.
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