Regional Focus: Africa

Funding opportunity:

NGO Projects Benefiting Refugees in Chad, Cameroon, and Northwest Democratic Republic of the Congo [info]
- Proposal submission deadline is 29 March 2019.

Publications:

32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, Addis Ababa, 10-11 Feb. 2019 [info]
- The theme was "Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions to Forced Displacement in Africa." Read the concept note for more info. See also related press releases/remarks from the UN and UNHCR, and news stories/analysis from DW, ISS, Project Syndicate, QZ and VOA.

"Cameroon Used to Welcome Refugees. Now It Forcibly Expels Them," Foreign Policy, 12 Feb. 2019 [text]

Forced Displacement in Africa: “Anchors not Walls” (UK International Development Committee, March 2019) [access]

The Hopeless Case of the Displaced People in Bangui (IDMC Blog, Feb. 2019) [text]

How Rwanda Can Do a Better Job of Supporting Refugees (The Conversation, March 2019) [text]

Key Donors Freeze Uganda Refugee Aid after UN Mismanagement Scandal (IRIN, Feb. 2019) [text]

Leaving the Embers Hot: Humanitarian Challenges in the Central African Republic (Refugees International, Feb. 2019) [text]

Niger Report (Part One): Agadez: Voices from a Historical Transit Hub (Xchange, 2019) [text]

Niger Report (Part Two): “Life is a Fight That Should be Fought" - Life in Transit: Voices from Returning Migrants (Xchange, 2019) [text]

Southbound Mixed Movement to Niger: An Analysis of Changing Dynamics and Policy Responses (Mixed Migration Centre & Clingendael, Dec. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

‘They Don’t Even Understand Why We Fled’: The Difficult Path to Reintegration in Burundi (International Refugee Rights Initiative, Feb. 2019) [text]
- See also related IRIN story.

When Returning Home is a Deadly Journey, “Shame is the Returnee’s Worst Enemy” (IOM, March 2019) [text]

Multimedia:

The Accidental City of Kakuma, Kenya: Humanitarian Urbanism and the Development of the Refugee Camp Environment, Oxford, 20 Feb. 2019 [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (5 Feb. 2019)
- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (5 Feb. 2019)

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