05 September 2025

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

African migration: 5 trends and what’s driving them (The Conversation, Aug. 2025) [text]

"Cut to the bone: The cost of ration cuts and delivery delays in Kenya's refugee camps," The New Humanitarian, 26 Aug. 2025 [text]

Displacement as a weapon of war: targeting Africa’s most vulnerable (ISS Today, Aug. 2025) [text]

Ending refugee status doesn’t end displacement (Africa at LSE Blog, Aug. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Liberians in Ghana.

"Niger arrests six Sudanese refugees in raid on Agadez camp," The New Humanitarian, 27 Aug. 2025 [text]

"Rwanda received migrants deported from the US earlier this month," Reuters, 28 Aug. 2025 [text]

"Sudan: A staggering 30 million are in need, as war grinds on," UN News, 28 Aug. 2025 [text]

"Uganda reaches agreement with US to take in some failed asylum seekers," The Guardian, 27 Aug. 2025 [text]

"Weak state and clan politics leave Somalia’s urban displaced in limbo," The New Humanitarian, 20 Aug. 2025 [text]

Reports:

Geopolitical Dynamics and Forced Migration Policies in Ethiopia, DeZIM Working Paper, no. 7 (German Center for Integration & Migration Research, 2025) [text]

Gridding forced displacement using semi-supervised learning, CLIFDEW Technical Brief, no. 1 (UNHCR, 2025) [text]
- Focuses on "mapping forced displacement throughout Sub-Saharan Africa."

Localising Research, Learning and Accountability to Affected Populations in Uganda’s Refugee Response (U-Learn, Aug. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related evidence brief.

“They Accused Me of Trying to Go to Europe”: Migration Control Abuses and EU Externalization in Mauritania (Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2025) [text]

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