A Tunisian rights group has condemned a “repressive and inhumane” government decision to deport a group of migrants who had been evacuated from a defunct refugee camp. Twenty-five men from Egypt, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan had sought asylum in Tunisia after fleeing violence in neighbouring Libya in 2011, but their requests were denied, according to […]
Tag: Refugees and Displacement
Hundreds of Senegambians in the United Kingdom are currently in a state of anxiety and unease as the High Court in London finally issued a verdict in favour of the government to deport migrants that crossed the Channel into Britain to Kigali. The highly anticipated judgement has been a bone of contention over the months […]
There are about 300,000 stateless people living in Zimbabwe. They do not have identity documents (IDs). Most of them are migrants and have lost their papers or never had any. They are excluded from digital services and the economy because to get a bank account or a job, you need to have IDs. “The situation […]
High Court rules Government plans to deport people seeking asylum to Rwanda lawful The deal undermines international refugee law ‘… the Government’s Rwanda deal seriously undermines international refugee law and rides roughshod over the rights of people seeking asylum in the UK’ – Steve Valdez-Symonds In response to today’s High Court ruling that the Government’s […]
The Director of Migration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Musa Camara, said more than 100 Gambian migrants were intercepted at sea and are now placed under detention in Tripoli. Camara made this and other statements on Friday 16th December 2022, during the Commemoration of International Migrants’ Day (IMD). “Four weeks ago, I visited over […]
Judges at Britain’s High Court are set to rule on whether the UK government’s controversial plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is legal. Several asylum-seekers, aid groups and a border officials’ union are trying to stop the Conservative government acting on a deportation agreement between London and Kigali that aims to […]
Some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) from different locations in Kaduna State on Wednesday cried out for help over lack of shelter, hunger, and loss of means of livelihood. The displaced persons are camped in an IDP centre in Kaduna. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews that they were forced out […]
An overwhelming majority of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Nigeria are women and children. Even though there are varying statistics about the exact figure of internally displaced persons in Northern Nigeria, all sources examined indicated that women and children constitute more than 50 per cent of the internally displaced camps’ formation. IDPs are people who […]
This Is a Summary of What Was Said By UNHCR Representative in Ethiopia, Mamadou Dian Balde – to Whom Quoted Text May Be Attributed – At Today’s Press Briefing At the Palais Des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is stepping up assistance to conflict-affected populations in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray, Afar and Amhara […]
Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda — ‘If they keep on reducing aid, it keeps adding more trauma.’ Refugees in Uganda are facing increasing hunger and some are considering returning to their home countries as funding shortages force the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut rations for the third time in as many years. Uganda hosts […]
Antwerp, Belgium — Some say the international community’s investment in a ‘role model’ refugee hosting country constrained the push for accountability. In 2018, as Uganda was catering for hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese escaping conflict across the border, a major corruption and mismanagement scandal hit the country’s widely praised refugee programme. The scandal, which […]
Tens of thousands of people have sought shelter in recent weeks at Kenya’s Dadaab camps, forced from their homes by extremist violence in neighbouring Somalia and an “unrelenting” drought, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday. An estimated 24,000 people have arrived at the camp complex since the end of September, some of the […]
Geneva — The U.N. refugee agency warns humanitarian conditions are deteriorating for tens of thousands of Somalis in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps as unrelenting drought grips the Horn of Africa and funding dries up. More than 80,000 Somalis fleeing conflict and drought have arrived in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps over the past two years, more […]
The best current pictures of zones of insecurity, areas of return, and motivation for return is given in a 1 November study by Joao Feijó of the OMR (Rural Observatory), based on extensive October interviews. He finds thousands of displaced people are returning home, “mainly motivated by factors of revulsion to the resettlement sites (related […]
Three migrants who had arrived at the Canary Islands from Nigeria will have to return home under stowaway laws, a police spokesperson has said. The men were taken to the hospital following their arrival. Three men ave arrived in the Canary Islands after an 11-day journey on top of the rudder of a tanker, Spanish […]
N’djamena — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned today of an imminent cut to food assistance to crisis-affected refugees in Chad unless urgent funding to bridge major funding shortfalls is received imminently. WFP requires US$161 million by the end of 2022 to avert a suspension of its […]
Three years after the UNHCR protests, Bellville camp asylum seekers cling to dream of resettlement Three years after refugees started their protest outside the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner, 500 people are still living at Paint City camp in Bellville without proper sanitation. They still cling to the demand to be resettled in […]
REFUGEES in Namibia’s remote Osire settlement are facing stark choices, as inflation continues to push up the cost of necessities, such as food and fuel. Mbuyi Kayembe is one of over 7 000 residents in the Osire settlement, located in arid scrubland over 200 kilometres from Namibia’s capital Windhoek. He fled his home in the […]