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The violent evictions in Rift Valley Province were well-coordinated and heavily funded, a human rights body has said. (AllAfrica)

Civil society organisations and refugee leaders say they have been ignored by the government as the complaints they lodged several weeks ago have still not been addressed. (AllAfrica)

Florence Chepkemoi lives in the western district of Mt Elgon. She lost her husband in the land clashes that erupted in September 2006. She talked to IRIN about her experiences during and after the conflict which pitted two communities of same clan against each other. Thousands of people have returned to the district and are living with other families or in transit camps near their farms. (AllAfrica)

The Fourth Division Commander, Brig. Charles Otema, is accused of grabbing an estimated 40,000 hectares belonging to internally displaced persons in the northern district of Amuru. (AllAfrica)

Thousands of people are trooping into Mau forest with the hope of benefiting from the planned Government resettlement of illegal farmers, Maasai leaders claimed Tuesday. (AllAfrica)

Two MPs Tuesday differed in public over the Government's decision to evict squatters from Mau Forest by the end of October this year. (AllAfrica)

ABOUT a thousand xenophobia refugees were removed from the Glenanda camp in Johannesburg yesterday and taken to the Lindela repatriation centre where they were to be deported to their home countries after they refused to register on the home affairs database. (AllAfrica)

On December 27, 2007, Pastor Robert Birgen of the African Inland Church, Chepsiria, stood patiently in line at Kapkuis Primary School polling station in Kuinet, a few kilometres north of Eldoret Town. (AllAfrica)

Operation Rudi Nyumbani (Return Home, in Kiswahili), designed to help about 350,000 IDPs living in camps across the country go back to their homes and farms has achieved its primary objective, at least according to the Kenyan government. Officials claim that most of the camps are closed and only 30,000 are living in the few that remain, but these numbers are disputed by independent analysts. (AllAfrica)

African leaders have remained largely silent since the indictment for genocide and crimes against humanity against Sudanese president Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court. (AllAfrica)

The international community must help the Government of Sudan find an amicable solution to the Darfur crisis, President Kibaki said Monday. (AllAfrica)

Last week's request for a warrant of arrest for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo, continues to draw mixed reactions. (AllAfrica)

Four months ago, a truck laden with an assortment of furniture branched off a community access road to Awal Kok Primary School in Gulu, northern Uganda. Then, Awal Kok did not look exactly like a school; a bushy compound and a single block without windows and a door is all it had. (AllAfrica)

Hundreds of property owners in areas scarred by post-election violence can hardly access their own homes and farms because individuals seized them - and do not want to leave. (AllAfrica)

There were two very different and significant developments in Eastern Africa in the last few days. (AllAfrica)

The recent 'despicable attack' on UN/AU forces in Darfur by well armed 'thugs' should be a stark reminder to the international community that the conflict there is not about to end but getting worse, the force's Nigerian Commander says. (AllAfrica)

Tens of thousands of civilians are still unable to return to the contested town of Abyei, two months after half of the town was destroyed in fighting, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. (AllAfrica)

A security officer working with the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has been assaulted by Sudanese Government military personnel, the mission reported today. (AllAfrica)

Hundreds of Kenyans displaced during post-election violence in early 2008 in the capital, Nairobi, are still in camps more than two months after the government launched a countrywide resettlement programme. (AllAfrica)

Displaced prepare to go home to Ituri last year, before the operation was suspended (AllAfrica)

Sierra Leoneans who fled their country following the 1991 civil war would lose their refugee status next January 1, a United Nations official was said to have told Reuters on Monday. (AllAfrica)

The direct involvement of political leaders in the Mau Complex evictions stands in the way of the Government's resolve to rid the forest of illegal settlers. (AllAfrica)

The Sudanese Ambassador to Eritrea, Mr. Salah Mohammed Al-Hassan, lauded the support of the people and Government of Eritrea in the Sudanese issue and asserted that relations between the two peoples is historical. He made the remarks in an interview with ERI-TV. (AllAfrica)

The drama that has unfolded in the past few days in the name of the "International Criminal Court" has baffled many observers. (AllAfrica)

THE UPDF 4th Division and leaders of Amuru, Gulu and Oyam have resolved to withdraw the troops from internally displaced people's (IDPs) camps and re-deploy them along the districts' borders. (AllAfrica)

Questions by the Arovlei farming community in the Khomas Region about a secret Ministry of Defence building being contructed in their midst will be answered before the end of this week - if promises made by Khomas Governor Sofia Shaningwa and Khomas Rural Councillor Frederick Arie to The Namibian yesterday are kept. (AllAfrica)

Lagos residents who have been displaced by the ongoing demolition exercise in the state have taken temporary shelter in churches and mosques. (AllAfrica)

IOM has completed the relocation of some 2,000 mainly Somali refugees from Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya to Kakuma camp in the northwest to reduce overcrowding. (AllAfrica)

Internal refugees who have defied the Government's order to return home may find themselves pushed out by hunger as donors shift focus to emerging crises in other parts of the world. (AllAfrica)

The return of over 4,000 Mauritanian refugees who have been living in exile in Senegal for almost two decades has been smooth on the whole, but in some cases tensions are arising as refugees complain about their new living conditions and come up against difficulties in reclaiming their land. (AllAfrica)

ON June 10, 2008, about 3,266 Nigerians left the Bakassi Peninsula in a hurry and arrived Ikang, Cross River State, seeking refuge from their tormentors in that handed-over land. (AllAfrica)