12 December 2022

Regional Focus: Africa

Opportunities:

Seminar: Enduring Displacement, Enduring Violence: Camps, Closure, and Exile In/After Return, Online, 12 January 2023 [info]
- Focuses on Burundians in Tanzania.

Conference: (In)visible Displacement in the Horn of Africa: concepts, consequences, experiences, Online, 17-18 January 2023 [day 1 info] [day 2 info]

Blog posts & press:

AAU Launches a Research Centre for Forced Displacement and Migration Studies (Addis Ababa Univ., Nov. 2022) [text]

"Can Kenya emerge as a role model on refugees?," Al Jazeera, 30 Nov. 2022 [text]

IDMC’s Regional Workshop: Filling the Data Gaps on Internal Displacement in the Central Sahel (IDMC Blog, Dec. 2022) [text]

"'Life is even worse now': Ration cuts and price rises hit refugees in Uganda," The New Humanitarian, 8 Dec. 2022 [text]
- See also related UNHCR news briefing.

UNHCR ramps up assistance to refugees, displaced families in northern Ethiopia as peace returns (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

"UNHCR Urges Malawi Against Forcing Refugees Return to Overcrowded Camp," VOA News, 28 Nov. 2022 [text]

"Who paid the price for Uganda’s refugee fraud scandal (and who didn’t)?," The New Humanitarian, 7 Dec. 2022 [text]

Reports:

Circular bio-economy innovations for resilient refugee and host communities in East Africa, RRR in Refugee Settlements in Africa Project Brief Series, no. 3 (International Water Management Institute et al., Oct. 2022) [text]

Conflict Trends in Africa, 1989-2021 (PRIO, 2022) [text]

Living in Fear - Conflict-induced displacements in Somalia: Protection gaps, risks and needs (NRC & UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

We Were Warned: Unlearned Lessons of Famine in the Horn of Africa (Refugees International, Dec. 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"A cross-sectional study of the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on camped refugees in Ghana," PLoS ONE 17(11): e0277515 (Nov. 2022) [open access]

"The freedom to choose: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence on cash transfer restrictions," Journal of Development Economics, In Press, 5 Dec. 2022 [open access]
- Focuses on Kenya.

"Reducing Khat use among Somalis living in Kenya: a controlled pilot study on the modified ASSIST-linked brief intervention delivered in the community," BMC Public Health, 22:2271 (Dec. 2022) [open access]

"Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness for War Refugees: Communication of Preliminary Findings," Trauma Care, vol. 12, no. 4 (Nov. 2022) [open access]

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