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Last year one of worst ever for refugees: UNHCR chief (Reuters)
Filed: June 20th 2007: World

Sudanese refugees awaiting repatriation from Uganda sit in a UNHCR truck at Palorinya Base camp in the northern Ugandan city of Moyo, June 18, 2007. (Antony Njuguna/Reuters)Reuters - Last year was one of the worst on
record for refugees and the crisis is deepening in 2007 thanks
to conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan's Darfur
region, the United Nation's refugee chief said.

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