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Refugees & forced migration
RSS FeedMali: Pro-Gaddafi Malians begin returning home
2011-10-18, Issue 553
Libyans of Malian origin who had taken Libyan citizenship have started returning following the crumbling of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime. Mali was this week reported to have made preparations for the returnees including some thought to have fough...
East Africa: Dialogue on migration urges close cooperation to promote regional integration
2011-10-19, Issue 553
A one-day high-level dialogue on international migration took place 17 October at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The dialogue was attended by senior African policy-makers and academics to discuss col...
Global: Spike in industrial country asylum applications
2011-10-19, Issue 553
On 18 October, UNHCR released the companion to its annual Global Trends publication. The report, 'Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries: Statistical Overview of Asylum Applications Lodged in Europe and Selected non-European Countries',...
South Africa: Urban refugees in Johannesburg, South Africa
2011-10-19, Issue 553
Johannesburg, South Africa, is home to more than 450,000 forced migrants, including 51,300 legally recognized refugees, 417,700 asylum seekers and others in refugee-like circumstances, says this report from the Women's Refugee Commission. 'A combinat...
South Africa: SADC urged for policies to recognise migrants
2011-10-24, Issue 553
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (IFRC) is calling for Southern African Development Community (SADC) governments to put in place policies that recognise the rights of migrants and to join forces with regional humanitar...
Kenya: Urban refugees need legal clarity, says report
2011-10-24, Issue 553
Tens of thousands of refugees living in Kenyan cities will continue to suffer police harassment, lack of protection, violation of their human rights and discrimination, as long as the government fails to properly implement recent legislation, says a ...
Somalia: Thousands displaced as fighting flares in Mogadishu
2011-10-12, Issue 552
Hundreds of families are on the move in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after three days of fighting between government troops supported by African Union peacekeeping troops (AMISOM) and Islamist insurgents, local sources told IRIN. 'We don’t have exa...
South Africa: Living the SA dream on borrowed time
2011-10-13, Issue 552
Despite years of trying to obtain legal documents of his citizenship and residency status, Jabulani Sibanda remains undocumented. Without them, he is resigned to living quietly and unobtrusively under the radar of officialdom. 'I always find myself b...
Côte d'Ivoire: Conditions for displaced worsening
2011-10-17, Issue 552
Almost half a million Ivoirians remain displaced five months after the country’s post-electoral civil conflict ended, afraid of returning to their homes for fear of reprisals, while a sluggish response to funding appeals means living conditions for m...
Kenya: Protesting IDPs storm out of Mawingu camp
2011-10-17, Issue 552
Mawingu internally displaced persons stormed out of the camp on Monday protesting government’s failure to purchase land for them. Led by their chairman Peter Kariuki and other officials, they regretted that the government had failed to respond to the...
South Africa: Zim deportations to resume
2011-10-04, Issue 551
South Africa’s Home Affairs department has notified Zimbabwean authorities that it is resuming the removal of illegal immigrants after lifting a special moratorium which has been in place since May 2009. South Africa had given Zimbabwean immigrants, ...
Global: Meeting discusses damage caused by immigration detention
2011-10-05, Issue 551
Thousands of people are held in immigration detention in the Middle East and North Africa on any given day. This practice is expensive, can harm the health and wellbeing of those detained and has been found to be ineffective at deterring irregular mi...
Sudan: 25,000 flee to Ethiopia to escape Blue Nile fighting
2011-10-06, Issue 551
Some 25,000 people have arrived in Ethiopia over the last three weeks to escape fighting between the Sudanese army and rebels in Blue Nile state, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said. 'Since 3 September, when the influx into Ethiopia started, an estima...
Cote d’Ivoire: Ouattara's tricky balancing act over Ghana-based refugees
2011-10-09, Issue 551
President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire is determined to apprehend compatriots he accuses of committing crimes during the country’s protracted post-election crisis. The position bumps against his other declared quest for national reconciliation....
Kenya: A day in the life of a refugee
2011-10-10, Issue 551
IRIN News carries a feature on Moulid Iftin Hujale, who has spent 14 of his 24 years in the world’s largest refugee complex, Dadaab, in eastern Kenya, close to his home country, Somalia. As well as working with an NGO in the complex’s Ifo camp, Hujal...
Tanzania: Resisting repatriation
Burundian refugees struggling to stay in Tanzania
2011-10-10, Issue 551
'On 25 May 2011, a Tripartite Commission comprised of the governments of Tanzania and Burundi and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) met in Dar es Salaam to discuss the future of repatriation efforts for Burundian refugees. The situation o...
Kenya: Mau evictees still waiting three years on
2011-10-10, Issue 551
Evicted from their homes in 2009 when the government initiated efforts to restore Kenya's largest water tower, the Mau Forest Complex, thousands of the affected families are still without permanent shelter. The fact that the country's policy on inter...
Ghana: Mystery camp deaths leave Ivorian refugees in fear
2011-09-27, Issue 550
Already struggling with the realities of being displaced, Ivorian refugees in Ghana are now faced with another problem: That of ex-combatants living amongst them and said to be fomenting discontent, including through holding secret meetings. Two myst...
Global: UNHCR extends cessation clause implementation
2011-10-03, Issue 550
The United Nations Agency for Refugees has extended the implementation of the cessation clause to 30 June next year. The clause was supposed to be implemented on 31 December this year. The UNHCR cessation clause stipulates that a person recognised as...
Africa: Statelessness in the Horn of Africa
2011-09-28, Issue 550
Across Africa, citizenship is being manipulated and restricted to deny rights to those whom a state wishes to marginalise or exclude, begins the abstract to this article, in reference to Ethiopia and Eritrea. 'While much was made of the expulsions at...
Sudan: Thousands of Darfur IDPs, refugees return home
2011-09-29, Issue 550
The relative calm recently witnessed in the region of Darfur has encouraged thousands of internally-displaced persons and refugees to embark on the journey back home, according to a PANA report here. Since the beginning of the year, over 10,000 refug...
Sudan: Southern Kordofan refugees still vulnerable
2011-10-03, Issue 550
Thousands of people who fled insecurity in Sudan's Southern Kordofan State to neighbouring South Sudan's Unity State remain vulnerable, amid humanitarian access and security concerns, says the UN. 'People entering the area are reported to be highly ...
Tanzania: Mixed responses to mixed migration in Africa
2011-10-03, Issue 550
Abdul worked as a journalist in Somalia before death threats from Al-Shabab militia drove him to leave his native country and head for Mozambique where friends told him he would receive help at Maratane refugee camp in Nampula Province. The boat he b...
Libya: EU 'shamefully' fails to aid stranded refugees
2011-10-03, Issue 550
A new report by the London-based Amnesty International has slammed the European Union for 'shamefully' failing to help thousands of refugees stranded near Libya’s borders. In a report titled, 'Europe, Now It Is Your Turn to Act', Amnesty Internationa...
Sudan: Government denies access to aid agencies
2011-09-19, Issue 549
Over 200,000 people affected by the recent violence in Sudan’s Southern Kordofan face extreme levels of malnutrition and mortality after the government has denied access to aid agencies, the United Nations said....
Zimbabwe: Travelling with child migrants
2011-09-21, Issue 549
The BBC has produced a podcast about Zimbabwe as part of their BBC documentaries podcast series Assignment. In 'Assignment - Zimbabwe's Child Migrants' (25min) Mukul Devichand goes on the road with young children travelling alone on a journey of desp...
Global: African refugees in the Amazon
2011-09-21, Issue 549
According to United Nations figures, since 2010 some 30 refugees from Africa who have requested asylum from the Brazilian government are living in Amazon jungle states. The asylum-seekers are from Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Nigeria and Sier...
Liberia: UNHCR opens new camp for Ivorian refugees
2011-09-21, Issue 549
UNHCR has opened a sixth camp for up to 27,000 refugees from Côte d'Ivoire who have been living with host communities in eastern Liberia since fleeing their homeland....
Nigeria: Deportation of 115 in Kano
2011-09-22, Issue 549
Nigerian authorities have in recent days deported 115 illegal immigrants from the northern city of Kano amid increased security after an attack on UN headquarters in the country, an official said....
Libya: IOM urges warring parties to protect migrants
2011-09-13, Issue 547
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is making an urgent appeal to warring parties in southern Libya to respect international humanitarian law and ensure no harm comes to the more than 1, 200 migrants seeking refuge at an IOM-establishe...
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