16 May 2024

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

"In post-coup Niger, migration becomes legal again," The New Humanitarian, 6 May 2024 [text]

Joint statement: INGOs in DR Congo call for a cessation of hostilities and the respect for International Humanitarian Law (May 2024) [text]
- See also related UNHCR/UNICEF press release.

Mauritania – the latest target in EU migration control (ISS Today, April 2024) [text]

South Africa: Toxic Rhetoric Endangers Migrants (Human Rights Watch, May 2024) [text]

UNHCR launches new learning platform to boost emergency preparedness and response in Africa (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

UNHCR's Regional Director for Southern Africa commends Zambia’s efforts to continue to promote inclusion of refugees into national systems (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

African Human Mobility Review,
vol. 10, no. 1 (2024) [open access]
- Mix of articles focusing on South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Analysis of Forcibly Displaced Persons in Far North Cameroon (Global Protection Cluster, Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Between Resilience and Radicalisation: Reassessing the Trajectory of Internally Displaced Populations in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique," Kronos, vol. 50, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"'Here we Punish, Here we Discipline': Forced Displacement, Silencing and the Multiple Faces of Violence in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique," Kronos, vol. 50, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

Host Communities and Refugees in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes, JDC Digest, no. 9 (March 2024) [text]

"'Living between here and there': Trans-local coping with urban marginality among internally displaced persons in urban Ethiopia," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 28 March 2024 [postprint]
- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 14 March 2025. See also related journal article.

"The Massalit Will Not Come Home": Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in El Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan (Human Rights Watch, May 2024) [text]

"A positive approach for the protection of the internally displaced persons’ right to participate in elections in Nigeria constitutional democracy," Nnamdi Azikiwe University Journal of International Law and Jurisprudence, vol. 15, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

The Refugee Response in Uganda (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, May 2024) [text]

"Social Inclusion and Justice for the Internally Displaced by the Herdsmen-Farmers Conflict in Benue State, Nigeria," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 5 May 2024 [full-text]

Multimedia:

The Mediatization of Internal Displacement: Do Media Reports Accurately Represent the Severity of Internal Displacement Driven by Flooding in Burundi as Captured by DTM? (IOM, March 2024) [access]
- Follow link for recording of interview that took place Nov. 2023.

Podcast: Some Subjective Narratives of Ethiopian and Eritrean Refugees in Sudan [access via African Arguments, May 2024]

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