Gene B. Sperling explains why “we need to provide more food aid and we need to make sure it is delivered in a way that continues to strengthen school-feeding programs.”

Listen to experts discuss issues surrounding the education of children of conflict, specifically with regard to the current situation in Iraq.

Watch experts discuss issues surrounding the education of children of conflict, specifically with regard to the current situation in Iraq.

Speakers discuss the plight of refugee children.

Zimbabwe’s economic crisis has propelled its citizens into South Africa and Botswana. Both countries are feeling the strain.

The volatile mixture of government troops, rebels, and lawlessness in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province threatens to draw in neighboring states and destabilize the region.

Mompati Sebogodi Merafhe, Botswana’s minister of foreign affairs, discusses his country’s policy toward Zimbabwe and China.

Iraqi refugees are returning home after years of war, leading Iraqi and U.S. officials to talk of a corner turned. But millions more remain abroad and unconvinced.

Robert Schrire, head of the political science department at the University of Cape Town, discusses South Africa's foreign policy under President Thabo Mbeki.

Darfur online forum features a debate between Sudan experts Alex De Waal and John Prendergast.

Kenneth Bacon, president of Refugees International, discusses the Iraqi refugee crisis.

A ‘spiraling’ Iraqi refugee crisis, exacerbated by closed borders and tightening admissions in the West, threatens Iraq’s economic and social stability.

Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group urges the United States to do more to assist Iraq's refugees in Jordan.

The millions of Iraqi refugees pouring into countries like Jordan and Syria are creating problems as pressure builds for the United States to grant more visas.

This research note from the Washington Institute concerns the growing Iraqi refugee crisis in Jordan. It says that the trickle of Iraqis seeking haven from the 2003 coalition invasion has become a torrent, straining social services, and aggravating economic and environmental problems such as unemployment, inflation, and water shortages.

This report from the International Committee of the Red Cross says that the humanitarian situation in Iraq is steadily worsening and it is affecting, directly or indirectly, all Iraqis.

A small African Union force has proven ineffective in the latest surge of violence against humanitarian workers and civilians in Sudan's Darfur region. A showdown is looming at the United Nations, where there are plans to send 17,000 peacekeepers.