On September 27, 2009, Abdulkadir Mohamud called his mother in Columbus, Ohio, to tell her he was boarding a boat from Libya that evening, along with his cousin Nasteha Mohamed Hassan to reach Italy. The 96 people on the journey boarded one of the risky rubber boats, but that was not going to stop them […]
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Africa: Tales of Women at Sea
Testimonies of survivors fleeing across the central Mediterranean “The minute I was alone, they would have raped me.” Adanya, 34 years old, from Cameroon. “In Libya, I was sleeping under trucks and buses as I did not have any money.” Afia, 24 years old, from Ghana. “I know if I tell my mother I am […]
Although funds for climate adaptation are rising, vital climate-linked mobility interventions are still being overlooked. Despite contributing only 3% of historical carbon emissions, climate-related disasters cost Africa up to US$15 billion annually. The continent loses between 5% and 15% of gross domestic product per capita growth to climate change. Over 54 million people in Africa […]
The EU is “very concerned” that Niger’s military leaders revoked an EU-backed law criminalizing migration. But residents of Niger’s ancient crossroad town of Agadez are overjoyed about the move. “We are overjoyed that this law has been repealed,” said Bakray, a resident of Agadez, a historical trade hub on the fringes of the Sahara Desert […]
Political instability and economic decline in Zimbabwe have accelerated migration to South Africa in the last two decades. Because of the overriding socio-economic focus of the migration, people often fail to understand the effects on the migrants and their families. This extract from the book Transnational Families in Africa shows how migrants mitigate the disruption […]