Thousands of Sudanese are being forced to leave their homes and walk for days into an area already severely affected by food shortages.

The last of three ceremonies to rebury victims of Rwanda's 1994 genocide who were washed up on the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda has taken place.

Osh, Kyrgyzstan (CNN) -- Life in this embattled country's second-largest city appeared calm Tuesday even as concerns over the plight of refugees grew.

More than a quarter of a million people have fled ethnic fighting in southern Kyrgyzstan, the UN refugee agency says.

About 600 people died in fighting in the Sudan region of Darfur in May, the highest monthly toll since peacekeepers were deployed in 2008, officials say.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is "the rape capital of the world", a senior UN official has said.

Voters in Sudan have cast their ballots on the opening day of its first multi-party elections in 24 years.

Leaders of 10 South East Asian nations meeting for a summit in Vietnam have been urged to put Burma's coming elections at the top of their agenda.

An American medical charity has warned that thousands of Burmese refugees in Bangladesh are facing starvation.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has signed a framework ceasefire deal with one of Darfur's main rebel groups, the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem).

Violence has dropped in Iraq, but millions of civilians who fled their homes because of warfare in that country remain "uprooted," a refugee-advocate group said in a report released Wednesday.

The United Nations refugee agency today said that it is encouraged by the first – and so far holding – ceasefire between Government forces and rebels in northern Yemen, where 250,000 civilians have been uprooted since clashes erupted in the country in 2004.

The head of the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur today issued a call for maximum restraint by all parties following the eruption of deadly violence which has displaced thousands in the troubled Sudanese region in recent days.

Fleeing civil war and poverty, Somalis take rickety boats to Yemen, the poorest Arab country. Yemen officials say they have a 'moral obligation' to accept the refugees, many of whom don't make it.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the release today of a prominent opposition politician in Myanmar after six years of house arrest, saying he hopes the move will lead to a more credible and inclusive political process.

Thousands of people have fled Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, since Wednesday, the UN refugee agency has said.

The International Criminal Court will reconsider bringing genocide charges against Sudan's president after judges upheld an appeal by prosecutors.

Appeal judges at the International Criminal Court are to decide whether Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir should be charged with genocide.

In its first estimate, the United Nations reports about 10 percent of the housing in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince has been destroyed, leaving some 300,000 people homeless. The UN says a full assessment of the damages inflicted by the powerful earthquake will take several days to complete.

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- The body lies on the side of the road that leads to and from Haiti's capital city.

Six Sudanese men have been executed for their part in a riot at a refugee camp in Khartoum in 2005.

Ten international aid groups say a 2005 peace deal in Sudan is on the verge of collapse and that the world must act now to prevent renewed conflict.

Thailand has removed about 4,000 ethnic Hmong from a northern refugee camp to deport them back to communist-ruled Laos, despite international criticism.

GENEVA - More than 74,000 Africans fled to Yemen this year, a 50 percent increase over 2008 despite instability in the country, according to figures issued on Friday by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

The U.N. refugee agency reports more Congolese civilians are fleeing the troubled Equateur province in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo. The UNHCR says tens of thousands of Congolese have crossed into the neighboring Republic of Congo during the past month to escape the violence.

SANAA, Yemen-- Lingering conflict between government forces and al-Houthi rebels in Yemen is straining U.N. efforts to provide relief to the internally displaced community.

A camp housing thousands of mainly Somali refugees in north-eastern Kenya has been completely flooded following almost three weeks of constant rain.

The United Nations says it has been forced to cut food aid to thousands of Bhutanese refugees living in camps in Nepal because of a funding shortage.

British metals giant AMC has announced it is to suspend purchases of tin ore from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Energy giants Total and Chevron have been accused of propping up Burma's military government through their gas projects in the country.