18 July 2025

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

"Back to ruins: The displaced Congolese forced home by M23 rebels," The New Humanitarian, 9 July 2025 [text]

"Rights, not rations: How human relationships can reshape refugee policy," The New Humanitarian, 11 July 2025 [text]
- Focuses on Uganda.

Sudan War Series (African Arguments, July 2025) [access]
- In this blog series, "through a number of themes that explore the intersections of war, displacement, identities and capital, Sudanese researchers, many of whom are themselves displaced, highlight their own experiences, the unique dynamisms within the larger communities affected by war, and readings of their possible futures." Follow the link to view the latest contributions.

Trump’s Africa summit: outsourcing America’s immigration problem? (ISS Today, July 2025) [text]

‘We don’t want to stay here’: UN accused of abandoning refugees in Niger," The Guardian, 27 June 2025 [text]

Reports:

Étude sur l'utilisation des foyers améliorés par les populations déplacées dans les sites autour de Goma (UNHCR & AIDPROFEN, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Evaluation of UNHCR's multi-country L3 Emergency Response to the Sudan Situation, EVO/2025/02 (UNHCR, July 2025) [access]
- Follow link for report, brief, executive summary, and podcast. The management's response will be posted where it becomes available.

Peace Agreement Between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda, 27 June 2025 [text]
- See also related commentary on The Conversation and the US Institute of Peace.

Journal articles:

"Forgotten and Neglected, War-Torn Sudan Has Become the World’s Leading Displacement Crisis," Migration Information Source, 16 July 2025 [open access]

"Leveraging Cash Transfers to Mitigate Energy Poverty Among Refugees in Uganda: Distributional Insights and Gendered Lens," Sustainable Futures, In Press, 12 July 2025 [open access]

"Medical xenophobia and healthcare exclusion of refugees and migrants in Africa: A scoping review," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 12 (2025) [open access]

"Predictors of Immigrant Acceptance in Africa: A Multi-Sample Analysis of Contact Hypothesis and Neighbourhood Violence," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [open access]

"Researching migration in West Africa: A systematic and reflexive review," Comparative Migration Studies, 13:52 (July 2025) [open access]

"Tensions and coexistence: host narratives of refugee presence in Nakivale, Uganda," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 14 July 2025 [open access]

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