Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

"In northern Nigeria’s conflict zone, camp closures make for high-risk returns," The New Humanitarian, 15 Dec. 2022 [text]

Kakuma News Reflector (Dec. 2022) [access]

- Reports by refugee journalists in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya.

Kenya should stop treating refugees as potential terrorists (Africa at LSE Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]

Somalis flee drought and conflict to Kenya's Dadaab camps (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

Reports:

African Migration Trends to Watch in 2023 (Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Dec. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Conflict sensitivity and renewable energy: a case study from Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp (Stockholm Environment Institute, Dec. 2022) [text]

Evaluation of UNHCR’s response to multiple emergencies in the central Sahel region: Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, EVO/2022/11 (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

Refugees in Chad: The Road Forward (Joint Data Center, 2022) [access]

Relationships in Transit: Local communities’ interactions with transiting migrants along the Eastern Route in Djibouti and the Somaliland region (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2022) [text]

Research snapshot: Reaching refugees during the COVID19 pandemic (ELRHA, Dec. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Uganda.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Enhancing the protection of the rights of refugees in Uganda: A new lease of life from SDG 10.7.4," Chapter in Annals of African Development (CEDRED Publications, 2022) [preprint]

"Estimating the potential of spices for mineral provision in a refugee context in East Africa," SN Applied Sciences, 5:1 (Dec. 2022) [open access]

"The Impact of Armed Conflicts on Forced Migration Crises in Nigeria and Mali," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 10, no. 4 (2022) [full-text]

"The Migration Response to Food Insecurity and Household Shocks in Southwestern Ethiopia, 2005–2008," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 25 Dec. 2022 [free full-text]

"A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya," Ethnography, OnlineFirst, 5 Nov. 2022 [free full-text] 

Multimedia:

African Migration: Trends, Patterns and Drivers (Conversations with The Elephant, Dec. 2022) [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (12 Dec. 2022)