02 May 2025

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

"Aid cuts push South Sudan into uncharted territory," The New Humanitarian, 29 April 2025 [text]

Mastercard Foundation and UNHCR launch $300m partnership for refugee education and livelihoods (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

Mutual aid in Sudan (The New Humanitarian) [access]
- "This ongoing series on Sudan profiles youth-led, neighbourhood-based mutual aid groups – known as emergency response rooms – and other local initiatives that have become the backbone of relief efforts amid the world’s largest humanitarian crisis."

“Now I Belong”: refugees in Chad receive national ID numbers (UNHCR Blog, May 2025) [text]
- Also available in French.

"Unforeseen Consequences: The Role of Law and Policy in Exacerbating Sudan’s Displacement Crisis," Columbia Political Review, 7 April 2025 [text]

UNHCR and the Zambian government commence a socioeconomic survey targeting refugees and their host communities (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

Reports: 

Key Insights from Route-based Research Along the Main Migratory Routes in East and Horn of Africa (International Organization for Migration, April 2025) [text]

UNHCR Position on Returns to North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – Update IV (Revision 1) (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

Where to next? Eritrean displacement amidst shrinking spaces of refuge (Mixed Migration Centre, April 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Bacteriological quality of drinking water and associated factors in Alemwach refugee camp in Dabat District, Northwest Ethiopia," Scientific Reports, 15:13390 (April 2025) [open access]

"Contextualising the institutional approach to the Kampala Convention on IDPs in Africa: A legal hypothesis," Law, Democracy and Development, vol. 29 (2025) [open access]

"Hunger, Anger and Strangers: Assembling Refugee Exclusion and Food Insecurity among Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Africa," Chapter in New Directions in South-South Migration (Springer, April 2025) [open access]

"Impact of Legal and Institutional Frameworks on Sustainable Livelihoods for Urban Refugees in Nairobi County, Kenya," Eastern African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 4, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

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