Somalians are fleeing to Ethiopia to avoid drought, hunger and extremist group, al-Shabaab. More than 5,000 Somalis – four times more than in 2018 – have sought refuge in the East African nation this year alone. Refugee, Barwako Abdi, said:...
Rwanda, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNCHR) and the African Union have agreed to evacuate refugees and asylum seekers in Libya. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed last week, in the capital city, Addis Ababa, to set up a transit...
Germany has been facing a steady idiosyncrasy between theory and practice of deportations. In 2018 every second deportation failed, leading to only 26.000 enforced deportations for the whole year. This trend has continued into 2019. From January till June, the...
Uganda has withdrawn its blanket refugee policy for asylum seekers in the country. Fears that improper vetting of refugees’ identities generated easy access for rebels and criminals to enter the country has led Uganda to revise its open-door refugee policy....
Three people have died in South Africa after attacks on foreign-owned stores. Another person is currently being treated for smoke inhalation. In the attacks, black South Africans began looting and burning businesses and properties that belong to immigrants. The President...
Human rights are not being upheld for migrants and refugees in Libya, with migrants alleging that they are tortured and kept in unsanitary conditions. On July 3, airstrikes on the well-known Tajoura Detention Centre in the country’s capital city, Tripoli,...
After fleeing conflict in their homeland, nearly 3.6 million Syrian refugees have begun to wear out their welcome in Turkey, although not necessarily due to their own fault; after spending years in their host country, many simply moved on from...
2019 is “The Year of the Return” for African migrants in the diaspora. On 28th September 2018, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo officially welcomed people of African descent, dispersed by the slave trade, back to Ghana, with a Pan Africanist...
“NGOs are part of the business model of human traffickers.” So declared Hans-Georg Maaßen, head of the German domestic intelligence service between 2012 and 2018, that is the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Fifty-six-year old Maaßen was...
(Nairobi) Conflict is the main long-term driver of migration in many parts of Sub-Sahara Africa, particularly in the East and the Horn of Africa. These areas are the most vulnerable to instability, protracted political turmoil, and inter-communal conflicts coupled with...
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