29 July 2021

Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

Borderlands in West Africa are ungoverned: why this is bad for security (The Conversation, July 2021) [text]

The Challenges and Experiences of Congolese Refugees Living in Durban, South Africa (Organization for World Peace, June 2021) [text]

Displacement and Invisibility Strategies in Postwar Burundi (AMMODI Blog, June 2021) [text]

Famine in Tigray, Humanitarian Access, and the War Crime of Starvation (Just Security, July 2021) [text]

The political history of Uganda’s refugee policies (Refugee History, July 2021) [text]

Statement by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on the situation of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region (UNHCR, July 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Camp Abolition: Ending Carceral Humanitarianism in Kenya (and Beyond)," Antipode, Early View, 27 July 2021 [open access]

"COVID-19 and People on the Move in Africa: The Impact of State Responses to the Pandemic on Migrants, Refugees, Asylum-Seekers and Internally Displaced People," COVID-19 Conflict & Resilience Monitor, 30 June 2021 [text]

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of Actions Financed by the Asylum Migration Integration Fund (AMIF) (Samuel Hall, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Ethiopia and Sudan.

Re-thinking the displacement financing architecture: The Horn of Africa (ReDSS, April 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related case studies for Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.

"Towards attaining the recommended Humanitarian Sphere Standards of sanitation in Bidibidi refugee camp found in Yumbe District, Uganda," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 6:17 (July 2021) [open access]

Multimedia:

2021 Regional NGO Consultations in the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes (EHAGL) Region, 28 June-1 July 2021 [access]
- Follow the link for the programme, related documents and video recordings.

2021 Regional NGO Consultations in the West and Central Africa Region, 30 June 2021 [access]
- Follow the link for the programme and video recordings. Note: Additional sessions will be held in August and September.

How Can Mobility Systems in sub-Saharan Africa Meet the Public Health Challenges Posed by COVID-19?, 3 June 2021 [access]
- Follow link for video recording.

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