Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Borders of Care: Asylum, Exclusion and Everyday Survival in South Africa’s Health Care System (RLI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Cameroonian chief wins UNHCR Nansen Award for his village’s embrace of refugees (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

Externalisation: ACHPR Calls on African States to Protect Migrants Amid Rising Deals (Immigration Detention Monitor, Nov. 2025) [text]

From Anticolonial Heroes to Post-Independence Liabilities: Morphing Refugee Categorizations in African Geopolitics (FluchtforschungsBlog, Dec. 2025) [text]

In Ethiopia, an Unfinished Peace Risks Betraying the People of Tigray and the Broader Region (Just Security, Dec. 2025) [text]

- Note: The post includes a link to a special report on "The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Tigray."  

Mapping Migration: Inside Africa's First Comprehensive Atlas of Migration (AMMODI Blog, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports:

14th World Conference of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges, Nairobi, 17-21 November 2025 [access]

- Follow link for conference documents, a selection of papers and video of the opening ceremony.

Analyse de Protection: Escalade de la violence, déplacements forcés cycliques dans un contexte de défis de légitimité pour les solutions (Global Protection Cluster, Nov. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the DRC.

Assessing the impact of US funding cuts on communities and humanitarian response: Case studies from South Sudan and Mali (ALNAP, Nov. 2025) [access]

Building a locally driven humanitarian future in Somalia (Oxfam, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Forced Displacement Survey: Zambia 2025 (UNHCR, Nov. 2025) [access]

From the fringes to the forefront: Refugee leadership within Uganda’s humanitarian coordination mechanisms (Oxfam, Nov. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Impacts of displacement: The socioeconomic effects of displacement in Tangaza and Tureta, Nigeria (IDMC, Nov. 2025) [text]

A Refuge Destroyed: RSF Violations in Darfur’s Zamzam Camp for Internally Displaced Persons (Amnesty International, Dec. 2025) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (17 Nov. 2025)