Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

"Burundi refugees in Tanzania living in fear: UN rights experts," UN News, 13 April 2021 [text]

"UN outlines plan to close camps housing 430,000 refugees in Kenya," The Guardian, 15 April 2021 [text]

"UNHCR Voices Concern After Botswana Deports Zimbabwean Refugees," VOA News, 18 April 2021 [text]

Why Kenya is on thin ice in its justification for sending Somali refugees back home (The Conversation, April 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

COVID-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Assessment: Uganda (U-Learn, April 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related policy brief.

*"Experiencing de facto Racial Residential Segregation in Urban South Africa: An African Refugee’s Auto-ethnography," Urbanities: Journal of Urban Ethnography, vol. 10, no. 2 (Nov. 2020) [open access]

Figurations of Displacement in and beyond Ethiopia: Empirical findings and reflections on protracted displacement and translocal connections of Eritreans in Ethiopia, Working Paper, no. 5 (TRAFIG Project, April 2021) [access]

"Impacts of refugees and climate change on agricultural yields in the Sahelian zone of Minawao, Cameroon," Environmental Challenges, In Press, 15 April 2021 [open access]

"Policy exclusion or confusion? Perspectives on universal health coverage for migrants and refugees in South Africa," Health Policy and Planning, Advance Articles, 13 April 2021 [open access]

Recommendations for addressing drought displacement in Ethiopia (IDMC, April 2021) [text]

Recommendations for addressing drought displacement in Somalia (IDMC, April 2021) [text]

Recommendations for addressing internal displacement and returns in South Sudan (IDMC, April 2021) [text]

A Region on the Move: Mobility Trends in West and Central Africa (January-December 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Suivi des flux de populations: Analyse d'enquêtes individuelles réalisées de 2018 à 2020 aux points de suivi des flux installés au Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Guinée, Mali, Niger, Nigéria, Sénégal et Tchad (IOM, April 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

USCRI Backgrounder: The Crisis in Somalia (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, April 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9613 (World Bank, April 2021) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (12 April 2021)