Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Webinar: Emerging BHER Scholars: Establishing a Refugee Research Agenda in the Dadaab Refugee Camp, 31 March 2021 [info]

Webinar: Refugee-host community relations during Covid-19 and beyond: Lessons from the Middle East and Southern Africa, 8 April 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

“Nowhere to be found”: Three Decades of UNHCR in South Africa (FluchtforschungsBlog, March 2021) [text]

"Rights Groups, Residents Decry Kenyan Demand to Close Huge Refugee Camps," VOA News, 25 March 2021 [text]

UNHCR reaches destroyed camps in northern Tigray (UNHCR, March 2021) [text] 

Reports:

The Impact of COVID-19 on Migration Intentions and Human Trafficking in Benin City, Nigeria (Seefar, March 2021) [text]

In Our Own Words: Perspectives from local actors in the Horn, East, and Central Africa (Oxfam, Feb. 2021) [text]

Leveraging networks to overcome displacement: Urban internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Policy Brief, no. 2 (TRAFIG Project, March 2021) [text]

No Refuge: South Sudan's Targeting of Refugee Human Rights Defenders Outside the Country (Front Line Defenders, March 2021) [text]

- See also related VOA News article.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (14 March 2021)