BAGHDAD, 10 January 2010 (IRIN) – Nearly two thirds of homes belonging to Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDPs) or refugees that were occupied by squatters have been evacuated since mid-2008, a government official said on 9 January.
Sadiq Amer, who runs one of the two main offices of Iraq’s Ministry of Displacement and Migration...
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Swanky TVs, soft drinks and exotic tobacco lure a young, mixed crowd to new-look cafes.
Sweet fumes of white smoke rise with the cries of men playing dominoes in the teahouse, spreading an unfamiliar scent in a traditional setting.
Change is wafting through the musty, masculine café culture of Baghdad, and fruit-flavoured tobacco is...
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