06 May 2026

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

"African champions chart the way on the Global Compact for Migration," ISS Today, 5 May 2026 [text]

Beyond Humanitarianism: Reclaiming Health Equity for Internally Displaced Populations (RID Blog, April 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Mozambique.

Fleeing Sudan’s War: Refugees Detail Three Years of Trauma (Just Security, April 2026) [text]
- See also related TNH articles.

"How Sudan’s El Obeid survives drone strikes and siege warfare," The New Humanitarian, 29 April 2026 [text]

Transnational State Repressions, Abductions, and Refoulements in the Horn of Africa (Refugee Research Online, April 2026) [text]

Reports:

Guidance Note on Eritrea (UNHCR, April 2026) [text]
- This note "supersedes UNHCR’s Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Eritrea of April 2011."

Left Behind: Protection Gaps Leaving Somalia’s Displaced Exposed (Norwegian Refugee Council, April 2026) [text]

Many Doors, Uneven Outcomes: Dispute Resolution Pathways for Housing, Land, and Natural Resource Disputes in Nigeria (Norwegian Refugee Council, March 2026) [text]

“Stuck between a country we fled and a destination we may not reach”: Examining mixed movement dynamics in Madagascar (Mixed Migration Centre, April 2026) [text]
- This report examines "the case of Pakistani asylum seekers in the country and the position of Madagascar as a transit country along the Western Indian Ocean Route."

When aid disappears: Lessons from South Sudanese mutual aid (Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility, April 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

African Human Mobility Review, vol. 12, no. 1 (2026) [open access]
- Five articles focus variously on South Africa's asylum policy/system and Zimbabwean Exemption Permit, as well as rural-urban youth migration and irregular migration in Ethiopia.

"Counting the costs of war: A holistic, multi-level assessment of the impact of conflict on Sudan," African Security Review, Latest Articles, 9 Nov. 2025 [open access]

Multimedia:

Emergency Response Rooms and Collective Action in Sudan (Into Africa Podcast Series, April 2026) [access]

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