04 November 2023

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

Catastrophic Displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Africa in Transition Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

ECOWAS and UNHCR signed an agreement to strengthen refugee protection and address internal displacements in West Africa (UNHCR, Oct. 2023) [text]

The Transient Refugee Trend in the Horn of Africa: Could This Call for a Shift in Policy? (Africa Up Close Blog, Oct. 2023) [text]

Reports:

IGAD and Forced Migration Response in the Horn of Africa: Prospects and Obstacles, IOB Working Paper, no. 5 (Univ. of Antwerp, Oct. 2023) [text]

Protracted displacement in an urban world - Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia: building urban solutions, Working Paper (IIED, Oct. 2023) [text]

A Region on the Move 2022: East and Horn of Africa (IOM, Sept. 2023) [text]

Respecting Her International Obligations? Analyzing Rwanda's 2014 Law Relating to Refugees, IOB Working Paper, no. 6 (Univ. of Antwerp, Oct. 2023) [text]

UNHCR Regional Consultations with NGOs in Western and Central Africa, Dakar/Online, 12-13 Sept. 2023 [access]
- Follow link for agenda and concept note.

Journal articles:

"Are They Victims of COVID-19? The livelihood and quandaries of sex workers in the New Kuchingoro camp for internally displaced people in Abuja, Nigeria," Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 21 (2023) [open access]

"Determinants of life satisfaction among migrants in South Africa: an analysis of the GCRO’s quality of life survey (2009–2021)," BMC Public Health, 23:2030 (Oct. 2023) [open access]

"Dispossession, social reproduction and the feminization of refugee survival: Ethiopian refugees in Nairobi, Kenya," Review of International Political Economy, Latest Articles, 11 Oct. 2023 [open access]

"Endurance Lost and Found: Unwanted Return and the Suspension of Time," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 11 Oct. 2023 [open access]
- Focuses on returns to Senegal.

"Where is Home without Legal Status? Understanding the Choice to Stay Among Post-Cessation Liberians in Nigeria," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 31 Oct. 2023 [open access]

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