Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Call for proposals: Establishing Research Chairs on Forced Displacement in North and West Africa [info]

- Submission deadline is 14 October 2022.

Job announcement: Director, Refugee Law Project, Makerere Univ. [info]

- Apply by 25 October 2022.

Blog posts:

Counter-Insurgency in Ethiopia: Civil War, Drought and Internal Displacement (African Arguments, Sept. 2022) [text]

We Live in a State of Fear: Eritrean Refugees Keep Bearing the Brunt of the Ethiopian Crisis (AMMODI Blog, Sept. 2022) [text] 

Reports: 

Data and Displacement: Assessing the Practical and Ethical Implications of Data-Driven Humanitarianism for Internally Displaced Persons in Camp-Like Settings (Data and Displacement Project Team, Sept. 2022) [access]

Enhancing refugees' self-reliance in Uganda: The role of cash and food assistance, FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, no. 8 (FAO, Sept. 2022) [text]

Global Compact on Refugees in Nigeria: Inclusion and self-reliance for increased well-being of refugees and their hosts (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

Moments of Negotiated Independence: Localized Knowledge Ecosystems on Forced Migration in East Africa and the Middle East, LERRN Working Paper, no. 20 (Carleton Univ., Sept. 2022) [text]

Refugee-led Organisations in East Africa: Community Perceptions in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania (Refugee-Led Research Hub, Sept. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Responding to Chad’s Displacement Crisis in the Lac Province and the Implementation of the Kampala Convention (Refugees International, Sept. 2022) [text]

Scapegoating in South Africa: busting the myths about immigrants (Institute for Security Studies, Sept. 2022) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (19 Sept. 2022)