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A long line of several thousand migrants, including families with children, walk along a grassy path in Slovenia toward Germany on a sunny day.

Uzbek refugees sleep on blankets on a grassy hillside in front of tents at a refugee camp near Barash, Kyrgyzstan, with more people gathered in the background.

Children sit on colorful mats inside a large UNICEF tent school on the outskirts of Hargeisa, Somalia, with notebooks and supplies on the ground.

Ethnic Uzbek refugees from Kyrgyzstan

Map of western Sudan and eastern Chad highlighting Darfur conflict zones and refugee camps. Conflict areas within and outside Darfur are marked, with clusters of refugee camps shown along the Chad border and several camps and internally displaced person (IDP) sites within Darfur. State and international boundaries are indicated, along with major cities such as Al-Fashir, Nyala, and Abeche.

Witness civil warfare in the Balkan region catalyzed by the fall of communism in Yugoslavia

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