Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

City residents and urban refugees: from shared living to shared futures (IIED Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

The Civil War in Ethiopia: death, displacement and a humanitarian crisis (MPC Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Eritrea's Role in Ethiopia's Conflict and the Fate of Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia (African Arguments, Dec. 2020) [text]

"Ethnic profiling of Tigrayans heightens tensions in Ethiopia," The New Humanitarian, 16 Dec. 2020 (African Arguments, Dec. 2020) [text]

Five Reasons Why the UN Security Council Needs to Deal with the Humanitarian Crisis in Ethiopia [text]

Interview: Uncovering Crimes Committed in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region (Human Rights Watch, Dec. 2020) [text]

Involuntary returns from Libya and reintegration in Ghana (AMMODI Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

News comment: UNHCR welcomes new asylum law in Chad (UNHCR, Dec. 2020) [text]

Post-conflict reconciliation and displacement: Examples from the African context (On the Move Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Reports: 

Bolstering resilient connections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Practice Note, no. 4 (TRAFIG Project, Dec. 2020) [text]

Circular refugee returns between Kenya and Somalia: a rapid review (REF-Horn, Dec. 2020) [text]

- See also related blog post.

Figurations of Displacement in the DRC: Empirical findings and reflections on protracted displacement and translocal connections of Congolese IDPs, Working Paper, no. 4 (TRAFIG Project, Dec. 2020) [text]

- See also related press release.

Responses to Urban IDPs in Adama, Ethiopia: A Case Study (Refugee Studies Centre, Dec. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related Research in Brief.

Journal issues:

African Human Mobility Review, vol. 6, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 2020) [full-text]

- Mix of articles, including on the healthy aging of IDPs in Nigeria, Spain’s migration policy & sub-Saharan African immigration, and the EU policy response to African migration.

Anthropologie & Développement, no. 51 (2020) [delayed open access]

- Features a dossier on "Perspectives ouest-africaines sur les politiques migratoires et sécuritaires européennes." Access to the complete texts will be available in June 2021.

Multimedia:

Ethiopia's Tigray Crisis, 4 Dec. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (7 Dec. 2020)