Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

Displacement in Sudan: Worse than the Worst-Case Scenario (CHA Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Europe’s migration deals in the Sahel must be revised (ISS Today, Nov. 2023) [text]

Kenya’s Bold New Shirika Refugee Plan is Model for Future (RI Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Pan-African responses to Europe’s restrictive immigration regime (African Arguments, Nov. 2023) [text]

South Africa’s immigration proposals are based on false claims and poor logic – experts (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]

‘You reach a point where you have nothing. You will just die’: In East African refugee camps, food scarcity is a mortal concern (The Conversation, Dec. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Bridge over troubled waters: migration governance and rule of law in Kenya and Ethiopia (Institute for Security Studies, Nov. 2023) [text]

Conflict Trends in Africa, 1989–2022, Policy Brief, no. 5 (PRIO, 2023) [text]

Equal Partnerships: African Intermediary Cities as Actors and Partners in Urban Migration Governance (Samuel Hall, Nov. 2023) 

- City reports have been issued for Kumasi, Ghana, Saint Louis, Senegal and Gulu, Uganda.

"Factors associated with health-seeking patterns among internally displaced persons in complex humanitarian emergency, Northeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional study," Conflict and Health, 17: 54 (Nov. 2023) [open access]

A ground breaking opportunity to increase access for registration of community groups in Dadaab (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [text]

"How Freedom of Movement Infringes on the Right to Leave," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 22 Nov. 2023 [open access]

- Focuses on the "ECOWAS area, drawing on original research material collected mainly in Abuja, Nigeria, but also in Senegal, Guinea, and The Gambia."

Invisible: The regional displacement crisis triggered by the Sudan conflict (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2023) [text]

Landless and displaced: The struggle for housing, land and property rights in eastern DR Congo (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2023) [text]

*"My Life, My Plans and My Dreams are Falling Apart": Voices from the Sudan Conflict (IOM, Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Oxfam’s Engagement with Refugee-led Organisations in West Nile (Uganda): Lessons on opportunities and challenges (Oxfam, Dec. 2023) [text]

Somali refugees in Kenya: increasing camp-urban mobility (IIED, Nov. 2023) [text]

Multimedia:

Kenya’s refugee policy: Towards coherence? (Curated Conversations: Exploring the Politics of Migration through Ideas, Nov. 2023) [access]

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Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (16 Nov. 2023)