02 November 2021

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Analysing access to healthcare for refugees and migrants (“mixed migrants”) in South Africa and Kenya: protective laws and progressive policies clashing with daily reality (RLI Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

Histories of Refuge (TRAFO Blog, 2021) [access]
- "This series looks at how people have migrated, sought refuge, and settled, in and out of Africa."

Joint Statement by IGAD, UNHCR and the governments of South Sudan and Sudan on the Solutions Initiative for 7 million forcibly displaced people (Oct. 2021) [text]

Launch of the African Academy for Migration Research (AAMR) [text]

Book chapters & articles:

"Case study R: A humanitarian social protection response to COVID-19 in Kenya," Chapter in Handbook on Social Protection Systems (Edward Elgar, Aug. 2021) [open access]

"Crisis responses, opportunity and public authority during Covid-19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan," Disasters, Accepted Articles, 22 Sept. 2021 [open access]

"Depoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016–2019 droughts in Zimbabwe," Disasters, Accepted Articles, 8 Oct. 2021 [open access]

"Once Primarily an Origin for Refugees, Ethiopia Experiences Evolving Migration Patterns," Migration Information Source, 5 Oct. 2021 [text]

Multimedia:

Exploring the Boundaries of International Protection and Human Rights Instruments in South(ern) Africa, PROTECT Expert Forum 2021, 22 Sept. 2021 [access]
- More info about this forum is available here.

IGAD-UNHCR solutions initiative for South Sudan and Sudan, Side Event at the 72nd session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, 5 Oct. 2021 [access]

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