Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

Land, Livelihood, and Limited Resources: Uganda’s Refugee Hosting Challenge (On the Move Blog, Dec. 2024) [text]

South Sudan Hits Record One Million New Arrivals from Sudan Crisis (UNHCR, Jan. 2025) [text]

*"Ethiopia: Tigray's forgotten internally displaced people," DW, 20 Jan. 2025 [text]

Reports:

Cross-Regional Forum on Implementing Laws and Policies on Internal Displacement in Africa, Dakar, 18-20 September 2024: Summary Note (UNHCR et al., Jan. 2025) [access]

- Available in English and French.

A review of vulnerabilities of water systems-related risks in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) host communities in Adamawa State, Nigeria (CGIAR, Dec. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

African Human Mobility Review, vol. 10, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Cities of Contagion: Pandemic Precarity, Migration, and Food Security in Urban Africa."

"Examining the integration of refugees into the national health system in Uganda: an analysis using the policy triangle framework," Conflict and Health, 18:78 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

"Household food insecurity, living conditions, and individual sense of security: A cross-sectional survey among Burkina Faso refugees in Ghana," PLoS ONE 20(1): e0317418 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

"The impact of fuel incentive and improved cook stove on firewood collection in refugees camps in Tanzania: A quasi-experimental research design," Cogent Economics & Finance, vol. 13, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Migrant returnees as (anti-)migration messengers? A case of street-level representative bureaucracy in Senegal," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 1 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

"Mobile displacement or displaced mobility?: Using transition theory to challenge migration-displacement binaries and biases," Migration Studies, vol. 13 no. 1 (March 2025) [open access]

- Uses "two distinct case studies of internally displaced people in Mozambique and pastoralists and semi-pastoralists in Ethiopia."

"Navigating Refugee Realities by Rethinking Human Rights Discourse: The Case of Congolese Refugees in the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp and the United States," Review of Peacebuilding Studies (Dec. 2024) [full-text]

*"The role of sender credibility in migration information campaigns," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 1 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Nigeria.

"The Sudan conflict: A catalyst for the spread of infectious diseases in displaced populations," International Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 151 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"Urban food insecurity and its determinants among migrant households," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 1 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on South Africa.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (9 Jan. 2025)