Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Friday essay: hunger, dust-storms, war – how I defied the odds as a South Sudanese child refugee (The Conversation, April 2022) [text]

*The rights of refugees in Africa are under threat: what can be done (The Conversation, May 2022) [text]

Themed Week on Border Externalisation in Africa (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2022) [text]

Why Rwanda? Border Control and Transnational Penal Power in an Unequal World (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2022) [text]

Xenophobia does not tell the full story of migration in South Africa (The Conversation, May 2022) [text]

"Zimbabweans stuck in limbo in South Africa," Mail & Guardian, 16 May 2022 [text]

Reports:

Assistance to Voluntary and Humanitarian Return (2017-2021): Profiles of migrants assisted to return to their country of origin - West and Central Africa (IOM, May 2022) [text]

Burkina Faso: COVID-19 Impact Monitoring of Internally Displaced Persons, Bulletin, no. 2 (Joint Data Center, June 2021) [text]

Chad: COVID-19 Impact Monitoring on Refugee Households (Joint Data Center, April 2022) [text]

- Results from a High-Frequency Phone Survey – Refugee Round 2: March/April 2021.

IGAD Migration Statistics Report (Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Oct. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protection, Saving Lives & Solutions for Refugees in Dangerous Journeys: Routes Towards the Central and West Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic (UNHCR, April 2022) [access]

Yaounde Declaration on Solutions in the Context of Forced Displacement related to the Central African Republic Crisis, 27 April 2022 [text]

- See also related press release and recommendations.

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Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (26 April 2022)