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"We were living like kings," Yaqin Habash told me. "Now we're sitting on iron."

Ahmad dodged bullets in Syria. Bushra received death threats in Iraq. Awino walked a thousand miles to flee civil war in Sudan.

Here's a look at Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group working out of Nigeria, whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law.

There are 7 billion people in the world. And a full 22% of them -- 1.6 billion -- are fasting from sunup to sundown. Every day. For an entire month.

The word "Africa" often evokes romantic images of elephants crossing the Kalahari, thundering water at Victoria Falls, or panoramic views from Table Mountain.

More than 1 million refugees and migrants escaped to Europe in 2015, the U.N. refugee agency said.

The Brazilian teenage girl who says she was brutally gang raped speaks out about her ordeal. CNN's Shasta Darlington reports.

Five people were killed and around 562 people were rescued after a migrant ship capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.

CNN's Stephanie Busari explains how the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram gained notoriety.

What does it sound like inside Norma Bastidas' head?

Hikers in New Zealand are being urged stay away from the crater lake of a volcano featured in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy because of increased activity.

What do the U.S. dollar, South African rand, the British pound, Indian rupee, Japanese yen and Chinese yuan have in common?

A 21-year-old Somali asylum seeker has set herself on fire at an Australian offshore processing center on the pacific island of Nauru, less than a week after refugee advocates say she was forcibly sent back there.

An Iranian asylum seeker has died two days after setting himself alight in an Australian detention center on the remote Pacific island of Nauru.

"When I woke up I didn't know that I was in China."