27 March 2026

Regional Focus: Africa

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Bridging the gap? Rethinking engagement between migration research, policies and practices, Legon, Ghana, 23-24 April 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

The limits of counting: What Europe misses about African mobility (MPC Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Little by little: How accessible loans are opening the door to clean cooking in Mauritania (UNHCR Innovation Service, Feb. 2026) [text]

"South Sudan power-sharing collapse drives violence and mass displacement," The New Humanitarian, 12 March 2026 [text]

State exploitation of regime fragmentation: A case study of Sudan’s weaponisation of an institutional gap in the international protection legal framework (RLI Blog, March 2026) [text]

Ua ndege wawili kwa jiwe moja: The EAC’s Coloniality and the Refugee Question (RLI Blog, March 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Tanzania.

Reports:

Equitable Access to Housing, Land, and Property: A Path to Peace and Durable Solutions in CAR (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2025 & Jan. 2026) [access]
- Follow link for the full report in French, and a briefing note and summary in English.

Evaluation of the emergency transit mechanism project in Niger, EVO/2025/15 (UNHCR, Aug. 2025) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and French, and management response.

From ‘Scarcity to Sustainability’: Strengthening the Regional Food-Water Nexus Amid Migration Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa, Research Report, no. 3 (UNU, 2025) [text]

Governing inequality: Kenya's state, aid politics and perpetual humanitarian crisis (ODI Humanitarian Policy Group, March 2026) [text]

New Evidence of Starvation Crimes in Darfur (Just Security & Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, March 2026) [access]

Sudan: Hallmarks of Genocide in El-Fasher - Report of the independent international fact-finding mission for the Sudan, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/61/77 (Human Rights Council, Feb. 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

Disasters (2025-2026) [access]
- Special article collection on "Resilience in protracted crises: navigating uncertainty in the drylands" that explores "diverse themes and new evidence from Mali, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan and Ethiopia." The Editorial is freely available and five articles are open access.

"The making of a suspicious bureaucrat: role-learning and decision-making at a Schengen visa consulate in West Africa," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 March 2026 [open access]

"Social support coping strategies among sub-Saharan African refugees: A systematic review and meta-synthesis," Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, vol. 13 (2026) [open access]

"'There is No Fixed time': Epidemic Preparedness and Relational Time Among Acholi Refugees in Uganda," Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, vol. 45, no. 2 (2026) [open access]

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