Series creator Julian Fellowes told The Wall Street Journal there will be a fifth season of Downton Abbey, but maybe not more after that. I don't know yet if there is a season six, but it's not going to go on forever. It won't be Perry Mason, he said. NEWS: Downton Abbey's record numbers. In 2012, executive producer Gareth Neame told The Hollywood Reporter that an end date would likely come after five or six years.
Desperate Migration in the Middle East Conflict in the Middle East is driving millions of people from their homes: Estimates from the UN Refugee Agency suggest that more than 4 million Syrians are refugees, 50,000 more have sought asylum and at least 7 million more are internally displaced. In Iraq, near 2 million are displaced.
Also in Darfur region alone, the protracted conflict has led to over 300,000 deaths and the displacement of more than two million people since 2003 (UNEP, 2009). It is believed that 16 out of the 39 main conflicts of the 1990s took place in Africa, consisting of 41% of the total conflict in the world (Muyemba, 1999).