CHOUCHA, Tunisia (AFP) – Several hundred people who had fled the 2011 Libya conflict refused Sunday to leave the Choucha refugee camp in southern Tunisia, which was due to be shut, blocking attempts ...

This week saw serious disruption at the Choucha camp near the Tunisia - Libya border where around 4,000 migrant workers and refugees from the conflict in Libya are accommodated pending humanitarian ...

Driving to the Ras Jedir border crossing in southern Tunisia, the Choucha refugee camp, officially closed last year, is hard to miss. Built by the UN’s UNHCR refugee agency in 2011, the camp saw some ...

CHOUCHA REFUGEE CAMP, Tunisia, January 10 (UNHCR) - Jewellery making is helping teenage refugee Abdel* cope with life in a Tunisian refugee camp, get over a tragic past and prepare for a future that ...

The refugee camp at Choucha in the South of Tunisia looked like a festival when I first visited in April 2011: thousands of tents stretching into the distant haze, people of many different ...

An all-male group of 60-odd people, mainly Eritreans and Nigerians, gathered to pray and sing psalms in the camp at Choucha, while the women prepared a traditional Eritrean dish. The group is among ...

Choucha camp, Tunisia – Clad in a long, white robe, Ali Ahmed Ali stares into the distance from his worn-out tent. A friend, also from Chad, sits silently next to him. “Everyone is tired here,” Ali, ...

special correspendent at the al Choucha camp – Thousands of foreign workers fleeing the unrest in Libya have made their way to the al Choucha camp, seven kilometres away from Libya's border with ...

Ben Gardane, Tunisia – Two years ago, 31-year-old Ibrahim Abblah spent his days tied to his bed with a urinary sack connected to his waist, left at the mercy of others to eat, drink or bathe. The ...

When the United Nations closed down the Choucha transit camp in Tunisia in 2013, some refused to leave. They are still fighting for refugee status, even though chances are slim. Elizabeth Bryant ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Roland Margai Keller fled his native Liberia in 1996, as civil war was sputtering to an end, making his way through Ivory Coast and Nigeria before ending up ...