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On Daybreak Africa: As the international community and the UN mark World Refugee Day, aid groups say they lack the funding to handle crises in Sudan, Somalia, the Sahel, and other places .Plus, a group of six-thousand Sudanese refugees are trapped by local militias in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. Cyril Ramaphosa is inaugurated for his second term as South Africa's president. Officials in Chad probe explosions and fire at a military ammunition depot in the capital N'Djamena. Independent investigators accuse Sudan’s warring parties of driving the country into a humanitarian abyss. President Joe Biden says his administration will offer protections to some undocumented spouses of U.S. citizen. For this and more tune to Daybreak Africa!

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In marking World Refugee Day, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR is appealing to nations to keep their doors open to the many people fleeing conflict, persecution and abuse. Refugees in Uganda are adopting skills to support themselves amid food cuts by the government and its aid partners, saying it’s time they learn to live on their own rather than depend on aid. Sudan’s army has been in talks with Russia to allow it to build a naval logistics base on the Red Sea in exchange for arms.