‘We tasted the horrors of war’: Stories of refugees who returned home
In 2025, nearly 15 million displaced people returned – the largest surge of returns recorded by the UN.
![People wait to seek help from the FCJ Refugee Centre in Toronto, Canada, August 7, 2023 [Wa Lone/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2023-09-02T100010Z_294917403_RC2AN2AT3JSJ_RTRMADP_3_CANADA-REFUGEES-1779715341.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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‘Trapped’: Gaza patients flown to Iraq stuck in administrative limbo
Palestinian patients stripped of their documents are confined inside a Baghdad medical centre.
![Hanin Muhammad, 40, pictured with her son in Baghdad, is pleading for a safe return to her six other children who are currently displaced in Gaza. [Courtesy of Hanin Muhammad]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-01-at-5.46.25-PM-1780388717.jpeg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
A woman holds her baby outside the registration centre for new refugees on the outskirts of the Korsi refugee camp in Birao, Central African Republic. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
Maude Ahmad Fadala rocks her baby inside the Korsi refugee camp, where she gave birth in the street in Birao. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
Women crowd the tiny maternity ward in Birao, which has just eight beds for about 70,000 locals and 22,000 Sudanese refugees, in a country where more than 40 percent of births already take place outside any health facility. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
Women and children fetch water at dusk in the Korsi camp in Birao. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
A nurse gives painkillers to patient Amna Adam Hessen, whose baby was delivered stillborn the previous day. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
Patients sit thigh‑to‑thigh on hard benches in the sweltering maternity ward as staff say the number of women arriving daily has tripled since Sudan’s war began in early 2023, overwhelming a health system already weakened by years of internal conflict. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
A nurse checks on a woman recovering from heavy bleeding after a complicated breech delivery, one of the preventable emergencies that become lethal when pregnancies go unmonitored despite World Health Organization guidance for at least eight prenatal visits. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
Women wait outside the delivery room at the Birao District Hospital. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
Heavily pregnant Sudanese refugees queue for water in a camp near the Sudan border, where displacement, poverty and lack of education intersect with a collapsed referral system, leaving many unsure whether any help will be available when labour starts. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
A pharmacist hands pregnant women painkillers from boxes at the pharmacy of the Birao District Hospital. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
Refugee Amna Adam Hessen lies on a bare foam mattress after losing her breech baby and bleeding heavily during labour, a death narrowly averted in a country where nearly two‑thirds of maternal deaths worldwide occur in conflict or fragile settings. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
Women line up outside the maternity entrance at Birao District Hospital, one of the only facilities in the area that used to receive reproductive health supplies from UNFPA — the sole provider in town — before aid cuts threw maternal care into a deeper crisis. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]
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