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Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra reports from the refugee camps of Yemen on the people fleeing the fighting in Somalia.

Last year more than 100,000 people made the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen in order to flee the fighting in Somalia - according to the figures given by the ‘Yemen Observer’.

This year 32,000 others have joined them in order to escape too. However it is estimated that one in 20 did not survive the trip.

Amnesty International issued a warning in a new report that 90,000 children could die in Somalia in the coming months.

Colombia’s internal conflict with Farc rebels is spilling into neighbouring countries and has already brought Ecuador and Colombia to the brink of war, as Bogota alleges the Farc is using Ecuador territory to launch attack. But, as Al Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez discovers, it is also creating a refugee crisis.

Heavy sporadic fighting is continuing between Somali government forces and fighters from the Islamic Courts Movement across Somalia.

Much of the country is now lawless, and while the media is banned, those being forced to flee give a sense of what is going on.

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow travelled to the Kenya-Somalia border where, for the first time in more than a year, the crossing was briefly reopened.

As tensions rise following the Colmbian military raid on a rebel base in Ecuador, Aljazeera meets a Colombian refugee living in Venezuela who has been leading calls to avoid war.

Benta Yero is returning to her home country, Mauritania, after spending nearly 20 years as a refugee in neighbouring Senegal.

It comes after Mauritania’s president said he would make the safe return of refugees a priority, marking a change in policy which previously denied rights for black Mauritanians.

Benta tells Al Jazeera her story.