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Cheadle stars in the new film Hotel Rwanda playing a hotel manager who shelters over a 1,000 refugees from genocide. It's based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina. Cheadle's other films include Devil in a Blue Dress, Boogie Nights, Ocean's Eleven, and Traffic. This interview was originally broadcast on April 6, 2004.

The humanitarian crisis continues amid violence in the western Darfur region of Sudan. Gun battles and ethnic cleansing have displaced villagers in the area, and many rapes have reportedly been committed by Arab militiamen on the fringes of refugee camps set up for black Africans. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and Washington Post correspondent Emily Wax.

In Lebanon's Nahr Bared refugee camp outside of Tripoli, there was enough of a pause in the battle between the Lebanese Army and members of the Fatah Islam militant group to allow the transfer of the wounded to hospitals outside the camp, and transfer of humanitarian supplies in.

NPR's immigration correspondents answer listener questions about closed borders, travel, visa applications, relief aid for non-U.S. citizens and the refugee camps at the U.S.-Mexico border.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the Pentagon says that the Iraqis are rebuilding air defense sites in southern Iraq that were attacked last week by US cruise missiles, but officials say US overflights in the expanded free flight zone are not endangered. The US, meanwhile, is calling on states neighboring northern Iraq -- Turkey and Iran, mainly -- to receive refugees fleeing the Saddam-backed Kurdistan Democratic Party rout of its rivals.

For 13 years, the Turkish security forces have been fighting the separatist guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK in southeast Turkey. Thousands of people have died, hundreds of people have disappeared, thousands of villages have been destroyed, thousands of Kurds have become refugees. The coming of Spring is the time when Kurds celebrate the New Year. This year, Chris Nuttall reports, the Turkish government is trying to win the hearts and minds of the Kurds.

In Kenya, tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees fleeing the a 19-year-old civil war say conditions in camps are becoming unbearable. Meanwhile, peace talks in Sudan are scheduled to resume this month. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.

U.S. humanitarian groups seeking to send food, water and medicine to Iraq step up fundraising campaigns after finding mixed results in gathering donations so far. Aid groups say clean water is the priority -- and they're encouraged by a relatively low number of refugees. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports.

When political refugees fled Vietnam after the war in the 1970s, thousands settled in a part of Orange County, Calif., now known as Little Saigon. The community of more than 140,000 residents is known for strong feelings against communism. But the prevailing ideology is changing. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.

Nearly 70 years ago, Jewish refugees appealed to the United States for entry in an attempt to escape Nazi Germany. A few Washington officials had a plan to allow the Jews to live in Alaska, but the proposal never passed Congress.