Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
Refugees & forced migration
RSS FeedEthiopia: UN closes camps as refugees return to South Sudan
2008-05-08
After 23,000 refugees returned home to South Sudan, the United Nations refugee agency has closed two camps in western Ethiopia. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that it had closed Bonga and Dimma camps after the organization as...
Kenya: Government sees displaced resettled in a month
2008-05-08
About half the internal refugees left after Kenya's post-election violence have been resettled this week and the remaining 70,000 should be home within a month, Kenya's government said on Thursday. "It's a logistical challenge. The numbers that want ...
North Africa: Egypt arrests 109 African illegal migrants hoping to sneak into Israel
2008-04-30
Egyptian police have arrested 109 African migrants hoping to cross illegally into Israel from Egypt, an Egyptian security official said Wednesday. 95 migrants from Eritrea and 14 from Ethiopia were caught Wednesday in the city of Aswan, 685 kilometer...
Kenya: Compensation, fear of attacks keeping IDPs in Rift Valley camps
2008-05-02
Along the Nakuru-Eldoret road, the charred remains of homes and businesses scar the picturesque landscape of Kenya's Rift Valley province and serve as a reminder of two months of violence that rocked the nation early this year. The calm that is typic...
North Africa: Little hope for Africans seeking refuge in Israel
2008-04-25
The young man, who agreed to be called Hamed, has come a long way to do nothing. The Ivoirian would prefer to work but, after sneaking into Israel from Egypt about a month ago, he’s got nothing better to do than sit in a park everyday in central Tel ...
South Africa: Refugee rights in the spotlight
2008-04-24
Stories of the abuse and exploitation of refugees in South Africa abound. In cities and informal settlements across the country, many refugees live in fear of being arrested, attacked and victimised for being ‘foreigners’. Xenophobia has lead to majo...
Global: Monitoring assistance to involuntary returning migrants from Western countries
2008-04-24
Increasingly restrictive asylum policies in Europe, as well as a growing emphasis on the return of rejected asylum seekers, refugees and irregular migrants, raise new interest amongst governments and international organizations for processes of retur...
Kenya: Country faces resettlement problem
2008-04-25
Addressing the issue of resettling the tens of thousands of people displaced in post-election violence will be the first significant test of Kenya's new coalition government. It is no surprise that a quarter of the members of Kenya's new super-sized ...
Chad: UNHCR transfers 5,400 Sudanese refugees camps
2008-04-18
Just over two months after the latest major eruption of fighting in Sudan's West Darfur region, the UN refugee agency has transferred some 5,400 new Sudanese refugees to two camps in eastern Chad. But UNHCR estimates that another 8,000 people remain ...
Sierra Leone: Country at a Crossroads: Challenges facing young people
2008-04-18
The report "Country at a Crossroads: Challenges Facing Young People in Sierra Leone Six Years after the War" is based on the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children's February 2008 visit to Sierra Leone to look at young people's needs, what services appear to be working and what more is needed. Country at a Crossroads...
Global: Refugee detention denies rights - Report
2008-04-18
As Turkey continues in its efforts to stem the flow of irregular migration, a refugee rights group has published a report detailing the limited access to rights and the poor conditions that refugees in Turkey face in detention, including severe beati...
Global: Africans lost in 'The Promised Land'
2008-04-18
The young man who agreed to be called Hamed has come a long way to do nothing. The Ivoirian would prefer to work but, after sneaking into Israel from Egypt about a month ago, he's got nothing better to do than sit in a park everyday in central Tel Av...
Chad: Aid for refugees left homeless after camp blaze
2008-04-18
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has provided temporary housing and relief supplies to more than 2,000 Darfurians who were left homeless after a fire swept through part of the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad last week. ...
Global: The detention of refugees in Turkey’s 'Foreigners Guesthouses'
2008-04-09
Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly - Refugee Advocacy and Support Program (hCa - RASP) released a recent report entitled "Unwelcome Guests: The Detention of Refugees in Turkey’s Foreigners Guesthouses." The report is based on interviews held between October...
Côte d’Ivoire: More IDPs return as the peace process moves forward
2008-04-11
Following the March 2007 Ouagadougou Peace Accord, some of Côte d’Ivoire’s internally displaced people (IDPs) have started to return home, either spontaneously or in a few cases assisted by the government and humanitarian agencies. Some tens of thous...
Central Africa: Security Council worries about displaced in Chad, CAR
2008-04-11
Condemning continued armed activity of rebel groups in eastern Chad, members of the Security Council have expressed their concern over the humanitarian situation in that region and the neighbouring north-eastern Central African Republic (CAR), as the...
Southern Africa: Migration from Zimbabwe: numbers, needs and policy options
2008-04-11
According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), by July 2007 the number of Zimbabweans deported from South Africa to their home country had reached 17 000 each month. Cross-border movements on this scale inevitably feed into issues o...
Zimbabwe: Returning will take more than politics
2008-04-04
It is going to take more than a regime change back home to get the several million-strong Zimbabwean diaspora to return, according to analysts. "It's both the economy and politics," said Mlamuli Nkomo, an expert in Forced Migration at the University ...
Ghana: Liberian protesters fear deportation
2008-04-04
Liberian refugees in Ghana, mostly women, protested in hopes the U.N. would help them find new homes in Western countries. Now they are in a makeshift camp, fearing mass deportation to a homeland with an 85 percent jobless rate....
Comoros: Anjouan situation worse than thought
2008-04-04
With preparations for new local elections under way, following a succesful military venture by the Comoros Union government and African Union (AU) troops to restore order to the renegade island by force, deeper humanitarian concerns have emerged. Las...
Kenya: Floods hit thousands, including IDP camps
2008-04-04
At least 6,000 people have been affected by flooding following heavy rains in the southern coastal district of Taveta, the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) said. Three primary schools have also been closed temporarily after being submerged," Anthony Mw...
Somalia: Help to stop migrants dying in Gulf of Aden
2008-04-04
The Somali consul in the port city of Aden has called on the international community to take steps to end the deaths of migrants - mainly Somalis fleeing in flimsy smugglers’ boats to Yemen - in the Gulf of Aden, and find a lasting solution to their ...
Egypt: Police kill two Africans at Israeli border
2008-03-27
Egyptian security men shot dead two African migrants on Thursday as they tried to slip across the frontier into Israel, bringing to 10 the number of migrants killed at the border this year, security sources said. The sources said security forces open...
North Africa: Egypt arrests 13 Africans trying for Israel
2008-03-26
African migrants continue to attempt to cross the dangerous Sinai desert in an attempt to enter Israel as witnessed by the arrest of 13 Africans on Sunday by Egyptian police who said they were trying to sneak into Israel. Migrants, refugees and asylu...
South Africa: Mining forces out thousands
2008-03-26
Nearly 20,000 South Africans have been displaced by mining giant Anglo American in its search for platinum, a BBC File on 4 investigation has found. It was also shown evidence the UK-based firm had polluted water sources and scores of miners had been...
Ghana: Liberians suspend protest
2008-03-26
Hundreds of Liberian women living in Ghana have suspended a five-week sit-in protest against their repatriation. The women ended their demonstration at Buduburam refugee camp in Central Province after Liberia's envoy visited....
Somalia: No welcome mat for refugee
2008-03-26
A journalist threatened with death flees his homeland, only to find that nearby countries and regions don't want him or have their own problems. His story is not uncommon. Many of Somalia's 600,000 displaced people have left the country; but few are ...
DRC: New scheme to boost nutrition for displaced
2008-03-27
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has set up a new chicken-rearing and egg producing project to improve the nutrition of some of the neediest internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the volatile North Kivu province in eastern D...
Chad: UN agency moves CAR refugees away from border area
2008-03-21
The United Nations refugee agency has begun moving some of the estimated 14,000 refugees who recently fled violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) away from the border in southern Chad to more accessible areas. Ron Redmond, spokesperson for th...
Mauritania: Second group of refugees welcomed home from Senegal
2008-03-21
Ethnic violence forced thousands of Mauritanians out of their homes and into Senegal two decades ago, but the two countries and the UN are working together to bring them back home. After leaving camps across the Senegal River from their homeland last...
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