The October edition of the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid newsletter, a monthly electronic publication that provides news, reflection, and learning on the provision of refugee legal, is available. Visit to access the edition.

The latest issue includes:

- Country of Origin and legal news
- Deportation and third country removal news
- Announcements
- Reader response: Rwandans in Zambia subject the the Cessation Clause
- Open letter to ExCom: The threat of invoking the Cessation Clause in particular reference to Rwanda
- Petition presented to the Djibouti delegation attending the UN meeting in New York, concerning Eritreans detained in Djibouti
- Israel Defense Forces (IDF) human rights violations against asylum seekers on the Israeli-Egyptian border
- Afghan refugees in Pakistan
- European Court issues freedom of religion judgment
- Unlawful detention and refoulement of asylum seekers in South Africa
- China’s new exit-entry law
- Croatia to join EU, drawing attention to refugee treatment
- The Refugee Consortium of Kenya: code of conduct
- Zimbabwe’s resettlement rumours
- The right to asylum of unaccompanied minors in the European Union
- Sources of persecution seldom spoken about: witchcraft accusations and asylum
- Serbia: a worrying situation outside the centre for asylum seekers in Bogovada
- Hong Kong refugee NGO calls for ‘march for protection’ in response to zero percent recognition rate for torture survivors
- Deportations of failed Ugandan asylum seekers
- Announcing the European database of asylum law
- As Syria stalemate continues, UN Security Council ponders options for protection of refugees and civilians
- Analysis: Was Hungary the first EU country of arrival? Legal responsibility before human rights: a short story on Dublin
- Argentina introduces state-run refugee status determination (RSD) system.

The extraction of the much needed water from a large underground aquifer in northern Namibia may need to wait for further studies, officials have warned at a water investment conference. The aquifer, discovered in July, may contain enough water to sustain about one million people living in the area for 400 years at the current consumption rate, as well as boost development through irrigation in this poor, heavily overgrazed area where women and children walk for hours to get fresh water from boreholes.