17 November 2025

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

"Boko Haram is back, and Nigeria’s IDP return policy is in trouble," The New Humanitarian, 5 Nov. 2025 [text]

Escalating Crisis, Rising Floods: Insecurity, Conflict, and Displacement in South Sudan (RID Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

"UN faces scrutiny over refugee transfers from rebel-held DR Congo to Rwanda," The New Humanitarian, 13 Nov. 2025 [text]

UNHCR: Displaced civilians fleeing Sudan’s Darfur, Kordofan regions navigate serious violations, deadly routes (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [text]
- See also related TNH article and MSF press release.

"Why it’s a bad idea to triage refugee food aid when everyone's hungry," The New Humanitarian, 7 Nov. 2025 [text]
- Focuses on Kenya.

Reports:

Flooded and Forgotten: Informal Settlements and the Right to Housing in South Africa (Amnesty International, Nov. 2025) [text]

A New Expanded Dataset to Study Refugee Camps in Sub-Saharan Africa 1999–2024, HiCN Working Paper, no. 442 (Households in Conflict Network, 2025) [text via EconPapers]
- See also related LinkedIn post.

No rain, no food, no animals: The human rights impact of drought and displacement in Somalia (Amnesty International, Nov. 2025) [text]

A Region on the Move: Mobility Trends in West and Central Africa (2022-2023) (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"After the funding stops: the human cost of aid dependency in Côte d’Ivoire," Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives (Nov. 2025) [full-text]

"Strangers into Kin: Affinity, Deservingness and Gratitude in ‘Everyday Humanitarianism’ between Locals and Refugees/Migrants in Kigoma, Tanzania," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 6, nos. 2-3 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

"The value of migration corridors in studying health of displaced persons in West Africa," Discover Public Health, 22:691 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

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