Joint Press Release BRUSSELS – The AU-EU-UN Tripartite Taskforce on the Situation of Migrants and Refugees in Libya has called on the international community and Libyan authorities to work together to improve the plight of migrants and refugees in Libya. At a meeting in Brussels yesterday, the Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development […]
Tag: Refugees and Displacement
At least 22 would-be migrants attempting to reach the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte died when their boat sank off the coast of Madagascar over the weekend, according to maritime authorities. Forty-seven people are reported to have been on board the boat which sank while headed towards the French territory of Mayotte, according to […]
Harare — Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has denounced racism barely 10 days after declaring a crackdown on illegal immigration and using language the African Union deemed to be “racialized hate speech”. During a statement on February 21, Saied called for the expulsion of all illegal immigrants, describing migration as a plot to alter Tunisia’s demographics so that […]
A consultative dialogue on the influx of Burkinabe Refugees in Ghana has been held in Accra to frame a contingency plan to deal with the ongoing situation. Due to attacks by jihadists, more than 4,000 Burkinabes have left their nation and are now seeking asylum in Ghana. They entered the nation through the border towns […]
Addis Abeba — Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has said IDP returnees in war-affected zones in Afar regional state unable to get back to their normal lives due to hindrances and restriction on free movement of people and trade activities across regional states, in addition to lack of adequate and timely humanitarian support. In a […]
Khartoum — “Over 418,000 people were newly displaced across the country in 2022 due to conflict and natural disasters such as flooding and fires,” according to a report published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) on Monday. The overview of internal civilian displacement in Sudan in 2022 reported that “most […]
Across Nigeria, more than two million people have been displaced by conflict. For some, the search for stability never stops. Saleh Abdullahi has been displaced by conflict more than once. He worked as a grain trader and farmer in Gwoza of Borno State in Nigeria’s northeast, selling maize, millet, sorghum, groundnuts, beans. Forced to leave […]
Addis Ababa — More than 60,000 Somalis, mainly women and children, have fled to Ethiopia’s Somali region in the past few weeks to escape clashes and insecurity in the city of Laascaanood, in Sool region. More than half of them arrived earlier this week. Exhausted and traumatized, they have arrived with very little, only taking […]
Dar El Salam / El Fasher / Mershing / Kereinik — Five women were raped by gunmen in North and South Darfur this week. One woman was shot near the Zamzam camp for the displaced near North Darfur capital El Fasher. Unidentified gunmen raped two young women near Tabit in Dar Es Salam, North Darfur, […]
Daadab Refugee Complex, Kenya — Around Christmas time last year, Rukia Yaroow Ali, 38, arrived at Hagadera refugee camp in Daadab. Hunger and insecurity had forced her to flee her village in Jilib in Somalia, with her nine children in tow. “My husband was a successful farmer, but when the drought hit, he was not […]
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi traveled to Ethiopia’s Tigray region this week to meet with families displaced by conflict. Since arriving in Ethiopia on February 5, Grandi also has met with the president of Ethiopia and with Eritrean refugees in Alemwach camp in Amhara. Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia have […]
Nairobi — Kenya is set to intensify the screening of refugees in a bid to support regional efforts to degrade Somali-based terror group Al-Shabaab. The revamped vetting regime will apply to refugees who have entered the country in the last few months from the neighboring Somalia, the Ministry of Interior and National Administration said on […]
Addis Abeba — Legendary athlete Derartu Tullu, President of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation, led a delegation of Tigrayan athletes and members of the Executive Committee and others to Mekelle in order to reconnect Tigrayan athletes with their families. According to the Federation, the delegation left for Mekelle this morning via Ethiopian Airlines flight. In July […]
Rwandan President Paul Kagame threatened to evict thousands of Congolese refugees living in Rwanda if the international community continues to blame his country for the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Speaking Monday from the capital Kigali after a swearing-in ceremony for Rwanda’s new Senate president, Francois Xavier Kalinda, Kagame said, […]
Pupils’ access to learning is undermined as people forcibly displaced by Boko Haram Terrorists in Niger State have converted classrooms into IDP camps. On 20 July 2022, hundreds of terror victims loitered around the Kuta displacement camp in Niger State. Dozens of men climbed the decaying fences of the place; others sat discussing under baobab […]
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has said that armed raids in a region of South Sudan plagued by ethnic clashes have forced around 30,000 civilians to flee their homes. According to OCHA, armed men from Jonglei state, an eastern region beset by gun violence, attacked communities in nearby Greater Pibor […]
Juba, South Sudan — The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs, or UNOCHA, says an estimated 30,000 people from South Sudan’s Greater Pibor Administrative Area have fled their homes in the face of the recent inter-ethnic violence. The clashes involving members of the Murle and Nuer communities have left close to 60 […]
World over, access to quality higher education is considered a basic human right that everyone, including refugees, ought to enjoy. This is because of the prospects that come with having an education such as employment opportunities, skills development, and hope for a bright future. Though education is paramount in the transformation of one’s life, when […]