Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

"Aid cuts and elections: How the humanitarian rollback has caused 'chaos' in Cameroon," The New Humanitarian, 13 Oct. 2025 [text]

"Around four million people displaced across Africa’s Sahel, UN warns," Al Jazeera, 10 Oct. 2025 [text]

"Burkina Faso rejects proposal to accept deportees from the US," AP News, 10 Oct. 2025 [text]

Crisis in eastern DRC: The Congolese government and M23 rebels in a standoff over migration (African Arguments, Oct. 2025) [text]

"Dadaab refugees decry divisive and unfair food aid cuts," The New Humanitarian, 22 Oct. 2025 [text]

"Liberia agrees to accept wrongly deported migrant Abrego, US says," Reuters, 24 Oct. 2025 [text]

Making a Case for Aid: Less Donor-Curated Visibility, More Redistribution of Narrative Power (African Arguments, Oct. 2025) [text]

"'Remember we exist', refugees in Malawi say as aid is slashed," The New Humanitarian, 20 Oct. 2025 [text]

Rethinking Refugee Differentiated Assistance Model: Refugees’ Struggle for Survival in Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement, Turkana County, Kenya (RLI Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

"Sudan’s displaced are in homes, not just camps – and aid keeps missing them," The New Humanitarian, 15 Oct. 2025 [text]

UNHCR announces closure of its Southern Africa Bureau as part of realignment review (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Basic Service Assessment and Socio-Economic Profiling in Kebribeyah, Somali Region, Ethiopia - Final Report (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]

"Credibility and/or anxiety: The moderators of political information on migration," Social Science Research, vol. 132 (Nov. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on a European migration information campaign that was aimed at Nigerians.

"Intent Versus Impact: Is the Choice Between Encampment and Out-of-Camp a Factual Hard Policy Dilemma?," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 24 Oct. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Ethiopia.

"Migration, Security, and the State: A Critical Review of the Securitisation of Migration in Africa," Chapter in Security-Development Nexus in Africa: Progress Towards the Agenda 2063 and Sustainable Development Goals (UJ Press, Oct. 2025) [open access]

"Mission Impossible? Humanitarian Actors and the Civilizational Logic of International Aid Delivery during the 'Congo Crisis', 1960–1964," Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, vol. 15, no. 2 (Summer 2024) [open access]

Multimedia:

Emergency Media Briefing on the Dire Situation in El Fasher, North Darfur, 28 Oct. 2025 [access]

- See also related statement and UNHCR briefing note.

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (8 Oct. 2025)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (8 Oct. 2025)

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

"An RSF atrocity, a mass evacuation, and another side to mutual aid in Sudan," The New Humanitarian, 27 March 2025 [text]

*First Recorded Drop in Sudan Displacement, Yet Humanitarian Crisis Persists (IOM, March 2025) [text]

UNHCR: DR Congo crisis deepens as funding cuts hit critical humanitarian aid (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

UNHCR’s Grandi hails launch of Kenya’s landmark refugee inclusion plan (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

- See also related statement.

Reports:

Escaping Khartoum: Understanding forced displacement, Sudan Brief, no. 1 (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Feb. 2025) [text]

Food insecurity among internally displaced people in Somalia: Trends analysis over time (2017–2024) (FAO & IDMC, March 2025) [text]

Lessons Learned: Anticipating displacement in South Sudan and Burkina Faso (Danish Refugee Council, Dec. 2024; posted March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Risking Their Lives to Survive: Ituri, Land of Violence and Displacement (Médecins Sans Frontières, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Also available in French.

The Shirika Plan: Kenya's bold approach for refugee integration (International Center for Humanitarian Affairs, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Speaking up against EU externalisation: Activist-led migration information campaigns in Senegal, CMI Brief, no. 1 (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Feb. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"The importance of city services to internally displaced persons, returnees, and host residents in Juba, South Sudan," Journal of Urban Affairs, Latest Articles, 17 March 2025 [open access]

"Knowledge, attitude, and perception on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: cross-sectional study among Eritrean refugees in Kampala," Pan African Medical Journal, 49:103 (Dec. 2024) [open access]

"Local Engagement of Nigerians with Neocolonial EU Humanitarian Return Policies: Civic Policing and Awareness-Raising Activities," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 30 March 2025 [open access]

"A mixed-methods nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and practices survey of IDPs, returnees, and host community members in four counties of Jonglei state, South Sudan," Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 44:48 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

*"Using the resilience theory to understand and address migrant pandemic precarity among South African migrant populations," Archives of Public Health, 83:89 (April 2025) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (14 March 2025)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (14 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

Addressing Internal Displacement Resulting from Organised Criminal Activity: What Role for the International Anti-trafficking Framework? (Researching Internal Displacement, Feb. 2025) [text]

- Fourth contribution in a series on "Internal Displacement in the Context of Organised Criminal Violence."

How conflict in Libya facilitated transnational expansion of migrant smuggling and trafficking (Chatham House Explainer, Feb. 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Beyond restrictions: migration & smuggling across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic & the English Channel (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2025) [text]

"The Convenient Villain and the Stereotypical Victim: How Demand and Vulnerability Help Construct Anti-Policies in Trafficking and Smuggling," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 25 Feb. 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Europe.

"Hidden in Plain Sight: Japan’s Dying Labor Force and the Human Trafficking Issues That Come With It," George Washington International Law Review, vol. 56, nos. 1/2 (2025) [full-text]

How migrant smuggling has fuelled conflict in Libya: A systems analysis of key transit hubs (Chatham House, Feb. 2025) [text]

The role of smuggling in shaping migrants’ journeys, finances and risks in the Central Sahel (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2025) [access]

- Focuses on Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger. Available in English and French. See also related snapshot.

Smuggling and migration in South America: Insights from migrants (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2025) [text]

Study on Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants in the Context of the Displacement caused by the War in Ukraine (UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Feb. 2025) [access]

- Available in English and Ukrainian. See also related press release and Eurasia Review article.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (6 Feb. 2025)

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Reports & book chapters:

Evaluación rápida sobre las mujeres, en su diversidad, refugiadas y migrantes en situación de trabajo sexual en Lima (IOM, Jan. 2024) [text via R4V]

A Period in Humanitarian Crises (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Jan. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Radio, Women IDPs, and Women Journalists," Chapter in Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa (Springer, Dec. 2023) [open access]

- Focuses on women IDPs in Burkina Faso.

Sex for Aid: The Ongoing, Invisibilized Sexual Exploitation of Ukrainian Women (Women's Media Center, Jan. 2024) [text]

Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) among protracted refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda: Addressing gaps in knowledge and responses, RSC Working Paper, no. 140 (Refugee Studies Centre, Jan. 2024) [text]

Unlocking Equality: Empowering Women and Girls with Housing, Land, and Property (HLP) Rights in Plateau State, Nigeria (Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues (6 Jan. 2024)

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

At Any Cost—The War in Sudan and Europe's Flawed Migration Policies (MERIP, July 2023) [text]

"How mutual aid networks are powering Sudan’s humanitarian response," The New Humanitarian, 2 Aug. 2023 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Crisis in Sudan: Briefing Note on Displacement from Sudan to South Sudan  (Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform, 2023) [text]

The Missing Link in Somalia's Peacebuilding Process: The Exclusion of Internally Displaced People, Refugee-led Research Series Working Paper, no. 1 (Refugee-led Research Hub, July 2023) [text]

"Refugee Burden-and-Responsibility Sharing: Revisiting the Debate on the Right to Compensation to Refugee-Hosting States," Michigan State International Law Review, vol. 31, no. 3 (2023) [full-text]

"Rural Displacement and Its Implications on Livelihoods and Food Insecurity: The Case of Inter-Riverine Communities in Somalia," Agriculture, vol. 13, no. 7 (July 2023) [open access]

"Theo-Political Challenges Concerning the Relations of Somali Migration in Kenya: An exploration of the dynamics at the core of imagining 'the Other'," Chapter in Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other (Innsbruck University Press, 2023) [open access]

"Understanding the barriers and facilitators of COVID-19 risk mitigation strategy adoption and COVID-19 vaccination in refugee settlements in Uganda: a qualitative study," BMC Public Health, 23:1401 (July 2023) [open access]

UNHCR Position on Returns to Burkina Faso, Update 1 (UNHCR, July 2023) [text]

- See also related briefing note.

Multimedia:

Displacement in the Sahel: Exploring Rising Migration and Responses in West Africa, 27 July 2023 [access]

Race, Migration, and Decolonisation (Curated Conversations: Exploring the Politics of Migration through Ideas Podcast Series, July 2023) [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (21 July 2023)

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

10 years of displacements in 10 weeks (IDMC Blog, July 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Sudan.

"Ethiopia: Rights experts denounce mass deportation of Eritreans," UN News, 13 July 2023 [text]

Historical Migrations in Africa: From Flexible Configurations to Transgressive Mobilities (AMMODI Blog, July 2023) [text]

‘Once a refugee, always a refugee’: Uganda’s high court disagrees with passport control officer’s views (AfricanLII, June 2023) [text]

Too many nerds in one room: Theories, theorization, and deconstructing categories (AMMODI Blog, July 2023) [text]

- Summary of discussions that took place at a workshop on "Speaking Back to Theory: Africanist Migration Research Beyond the Categories."

UNHCR urges Ghana to cease forced return of Burkinabe nationals in need of protection (UNHCR, July 2023) [text]

Why it’s crucial for internally displaced persons to participate in the peace process following Ethiopia’s Oromia Conflict (Bliss Blog, July 2023) [text]

Zimbabwean migrants: South Africa’s anti-immigrant sentiments are hindering policy reform (The Conversation, July 2023) [text]

Reports:

Addressing Irregular Migration through Principled Programmatic Approaches: Examining the West Africa Route and WFP Operations (IFPRI & WFP, July 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

A Crisis of Displacement: Why Burkina Faso Needs the Kampala Convention (Refugees International, July 2023) [text]

Impact Case Study: Exploring refugee knowledge and compliance to COVID-19 guidelines in Uganda (ELRHA, July 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Onward Bound: Evaluating Cash and Voucher Assistance for Migrants on Sahel's Migration Trail - Research and learnings from the Sahel region (British Red Cross & Samuel Hall, July 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Senegal: Study on the Needs of Missing Migrants and their Families (IOM, Dec. 2022) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (8 July 2023)

 

Regional Focus: Africa

Short pieces:

Eritrean refugees face danger in Sudan and Ethiopia (Africa at LSE, May 2023) [text]

Malawi: Refugees, Including Children, Forcibly Relocated (Human Rights Watch, June 2023) [text]

Refugees and locals live side-by-side in Niger’s 'opportunity villages' (UNHCR, June 2023) [text]

The Subaltern Can Speak: Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Settlement (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2023) [text]

"WFP leadership in Ethiopia resigns amid aid diversion probe," The New Humanitarian, 5 June 2023 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Adaptive Management in Refugee Programming: Lessons from Re:Build (Center for Global Development, June 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Kenya and Uganda.

Protection Brief: Sudan (UNHCR, June 2023) [text]

Refugee Recognition Regime Country Profile: South Africa, Working Paper, no. 2 (RefMig, 2023) [text]

"In search of the invisible people: revisiting the concept of 'internally displaced persons' in light of an Ethiopian case study," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2 (June 2022) [postprint]

- Note: The embargo period for accessing the text of this postprint has now passed.

Research Snapshot: Misinformation and COVID-19 -related health measures in displacement settings (ELRHA, May 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the DRC.

Surviving in crisis: Unpacking the link between conflict, displacement and food security in Burkina Faso (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, June 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Understanding IDPS in Nigerian Cities, RID Working Paper, no. 36 (Researching Internal Displacement, May 2023) [text]

"We have lost everything": Forced evictions of the Maasai in Loliondo, Tanzania (Amnesty International, June 2023) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (29 May 2023)

Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

"In northern Nigeria’s conflict zone, camp closures make for high-risk returns," The New Humanitarian, 15 Dec. 2022 [text]

Kakuma News Reflector (Dec. 2022) [access]

- Reports by refugee journalists in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya.

Kenya should stop treating refugees as potential terrorists (Africa at LSE Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]

Somalis flee drought and conflict to Kenya's Dadaab camps (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

Reports:

African Migration Trends to Watch in 2023 (Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Dec. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Conflict sensitivity and renewable energy: a case study from Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp (Stockholm Environment Institute, Dec. 2022) [text]

Evaluation of UNHCR’s response to multiple emergencies in the central Sahel region: Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, EVO/2022/11 (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

Refugees in Chad: The Road Forward (Joint Data Center, 2022) [access]

Relationships in Transit: Local communities’ interactions with transiting migrants along the Eastern Route in Djibouti and the Somaliland region (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2022) [text]

Research snapshot: Reaching refugees during the COVID19 pandemic (ELRHA, Dec. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Uganda.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Enhancing the protection of the rights of refugees in Uganda: A new lease of life from SDG 10.7.4," Chapter in Annals of African Development (CEDRED Publications, 2022) [preprint]

"Estimating the potential of spices for mineral provision in a refugee context in East Africa," SN Applied Sciences, 5:1 (Dec. 2022) [open access]

"The Impact of Armed Conflicts on Forced Migration Crises in Nigeria and Mali," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 10, no. 4 (2022) [full-text]

"The Migration Response to Food Insecurity and Household Shocks in Southwestern Ethiopia, 2005–2008," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 25 Dec. 2022 [free full-text]

"A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya," Ethnography, OnlineFirst, 5 Nov. 2022 [free full-text] 

Multimedia:

African Migration: Trends, Patterns and Drivers (Conversations with The Elephant, Dec. 2022) [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (12 Dec. 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

Deceased Migrants in South Africa: The Relevance of Objective 8 of the Global Compact for Migration (Border Criminologies Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Four Challenges Facing Displaced Persons in Somalia (IOM Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]

How the category ‘refugee’ produces and reinforces particular kinds of boundaries and borders in the mobility and survival efforts of refugees in Cape Town, South Africa (RLI Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Reflections on some challenges to achieving durable solutions to violence-induced internal displacement in Ethiopia (African Law Matters, Sept. 2022) [text]

https://www.africanlawmatters.com/

Rwanda: 'promised land' for refugees turns out to be a mirage (InfoMigrants, Oct. 2022) [text]

Somalia: four lessons from past experience of dealing with famine (The Conversation, Oct. 2022) [text]

Open access book:

Migration in Africa: Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century (Routledge, April 2022) [open access]

- "This book introduces readers to the age of intra-African migration, a period from the mid-19th century onward in which the center of gravity of African migration moved decisively inward. Most books tend to zoom in on Africa’s external migration during the earlier intercontinental slave trades and the more recent outmigration to the Global North, but this book argues that migration within the continent has been far more central to the lives of Africans over the course of the last two centuries. The book demonstrates that only by taking a broad historical and continent-wide perspective can we understand the distinctions between the more immediate drivers of migration and deeper patterns of change over time."

Reports & book chapters:

The Challenges of Data Collection in Conflict-affected Areas: A Case Study in the Liptako-Gourma Region, SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security, no. 7 (SIPRI, Oct. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Burkina Faso, Mali & Niger.

"The Deportation Process of Zimbabwe and Sub-Saharan Africa," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (OUP, Forthcoming) [preprint]

Pilot Project Report on Cash for Protection Assistance to Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons in Chuiba and Eduardo Mondlane, Pemba, Cabo Delgado (Norwegian Refugee Council, Oct. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"COVID-19 epidemiology and changes in health service utilization in Uganda’s refugee settlements during the first year of the pandemic," BMC Public Health, 22:1927 (Oct. 2022) [open access]

"A Hierarchy of Refugees: Fixing Vulnerability among Refugees from Mali in Burkina Faso," Public Anthropologist, vol. 4, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

"The international humanitarian response to famine in Tigray, Ethiopia: lessons from the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970," Global Health Action, vol. 15, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"No End in Sight: How regimes form barriers to addressing the wicked problem of displacement," Organization Studies, vol. 43, no. 10 (2022) [open access]

- Focuses on Rwanda.

"Refugee Policy Amidst Global Shocks: Encampment, Resettlement Barriers and the Search for ‘Durable Solutions’," Global Policy, vol. 13, no. 4 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

- Focuses on  Zimbabwe.

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (5 Oct. 2022)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (5 Oct. 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

"Asylum seekers say Rwanda better than Libya, but they will try for Europe again," Reuters, 14 June 2022 [text]

Côte d’Ivoire welcomes returning families as refugee status set to end (UNHCR, June 2022) [text]

- See also related news story.

COVID-19 pandemic and internally displaced people: Data collection during a double crisis in Burkina Faso (Data Blog, June 2022) [text]

"Ethiopia's Struggling IDPs Face Dilemma: Stay or Return Home?," VOA News, 23 June 2022 [text]

The 'National Framework for Return, Relocation and Reintegration of Displaced Persons' in South Sudan: Durable Solutions and a Safe Environment for IDP Returns? (RID Blog, June 2022) [text]

Participation, pragmatism, and daring to invent: Uganda’s Displacement Crisis Response Mechanism (Africa Can End Poverty, June 2022) [text]

UNHCR data visualization on Mediterranean crossings charts rising death toll and tragedy at sea (UNHCR, June 2022) [access]

- "The data visualization focuses specifically on the route from the East and Horn of Africa to the Central Mediterranean Sea."

Reports:

Addressing Forced Displacement in the Central African Republic: How the international community can support protection efforts of Central African refugees and internally displaced people (USCRI, May 2022) [text]

Another Humanitarian (and Political) Crisis in Somalia in 2022 (Feinstein International Center, June 2022) [text]

Asylum Seekers Access to Protection: Developments in South Africa, Advocates' Migration Brief, no. 2 (Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa, Feb. 2022) [text]

Comparing Socioeconomic Differences Between Urban and Camp-based Refugees in Kenya: Summary (UNHCR, July 2022) [text]

- See also related infographic.

Data Collection on Urban Mixed Migration (Mixed Migration Centre & Mayors Migration Council, July 2022)

- City reports available for Arua, Kampala and Nairobi.

"Don't Take the Foot Off the Pedal": Internal Displacement is Still a Reality in Uganda, RID Working Paper, no. 25 (Researching Internal Displacement, June 2022) [text]

Understanding the Socio Economic Conditions of Refugees in Urban Areas of Kenya: Summary (UNHCR, July 2022) [text]

- See also related infographic.

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (8 June 2022)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (8 June 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Friday essay: hunger, dust-storms, war – how I defied the odds as a South Sudanese child refugee (The Conversation, April 2022) [text]

*The rights of refugees in Africa are under threat: what can be done (The Conversation, May 2022) [text]

Themed Week on Border Externalisation in Africa (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2022) [text]

Why Rwanda? Border Control and Transnational Penal Power in an Unequal World (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2022) [text]

Xenophobia does not tell the full story of migration in South Africa (The Conversation, May 2022) [text]

"Zimbabweans stuck in limbo in South Africa," Mail & Guardian, 16 May 2022 [text]

Reports:

Assistance to Voluntary and Humanitarian Return (2017-2021): Profiles of migrants assisted to return to their country of origin - West and Central Africa (IOM, May 2022) [text]

Burkina Faso: COVID-19 Impact Monitoring of Internally Displaced Persons, Bulletin, no. 2 (Joint Data Center, June 2021) [text]

Chad: COVID-19 Impact Monitoring on Refugee Households (Joint Data Center, April 2022) [text]

- Results from a High-Frequency Phone Survey – Refugee Round 2: March/April 2021.

IGAD Migration Statistics Report (Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Oct. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protection, Saving Lives & Solutions for Refugees in Dangerous Journeys: Routes Towards the Central and West Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic (UNHCR, April 2022) [access]

Yaounde Declaration on Solutions in the Context of Forced Displacement related to the Central African Republic Crisis, 27 April 2022 [text]

- See also related press release and recommendations.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (26 April 2022)  

Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

How a small team of journalists report on one of the biggest refugee camps on earth (Reuters Institute, April 2022) [text]

*"‘My children cry with hunger’: refugees denied UN aid rations at Malawi camp," The Guardian, 25 April 2022 [text]

*South Africa’s COVID relief measures mostly excluded refugees: a neglect of duty (The Conversation, April 2022) [text]

Spiraling costs, surging conflict, and soaring climate disasters create a desperate future for millions of refugees across Eastern Africa (WFP & UNHCR, April 2022) [text]

Xenophobia is on the rise in South Africa: scholars weigh in on the migrant question (The Conversation, April 2022) [text]

Reports: 

After the Coup: Burkina Faso’s Humanitarian and Displacement Crisis (Refugees International, April 2022) [text]

- See also French version.

Beyond the Cessation Clause: Rwandan Refugees in Uganda: From Refugees to East African Citizens?, ASC-TUFS Working Papers, vol. 2 (2022) [text]

Impact of COVID-19 on human settlements, gender, and migrants and refugees in South Africa: methodology report (Human Sciences Research Council, March 2022) [text]

Kenya Analytical Program on Forced Displacement (UNHCR, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugee Mobility and Uncertain Lives: Challenges and Agency of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda, ASC-TUFS Working Papers, vol. 2 (2022) [text]

Social protection and the inclusion of persons of concern: Regional analysis of the inclusion of UNHCR Persons of Concern in government social protection systems and implications for future action (UNHCR, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Evaluation of public health surveillance systems in refugee settlements in Uganda, 2016–2019: lessons learned," Conflict and Health, 16:15 (April 2022) [open access]

"No Hope for the ‘Foreigners’: The Conflation of Refugees and Migrants in South Africa," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 15 April 2022 [open access]

"Return without Refoulement: How States Avoid Hosting Refugees after Recognition,” Geopolitics, Under Review, 20 March 2022 [preprint]

- Focuses on Burundian refugees in Tanzania.

Multimedia:

Localizing Research: Lessons from Sudan, 29 March 2022 [access]

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Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (8 April 2022)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (8 April 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

"Burkina Faso Displacement Spikes as Ukraine Takes Aid Toll," VOA News, 10 March 2022 [text]

Displacement diplomacy: five ways to improve policy and practice on internal displacement in Africa (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, March 2022) [text]

Ethiopia’s “humanitarian truce” and its cycle of empty promises (African Arguments, March 2022) [text]

Human Rights Day: Protecting the rights of refugees (UCT News, March 2022) [text]

- Focuses on South Africa.

Research with refugees: taking care not to cut a long story short (IIED Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Kenya.

Reports:

The Geography of Displacement, Refugees’ Camps and Social Conflicts, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9983 (World Bank, March 2022) [text]

Inclusive Refugee-Hosting in Uganda Improves Local Development and Prevents Public Backlash, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9981 (World Bank, March 2022) [text]

Missing Migrants, Missing Solutions? Reviewing GCM Objective 8 in West Africa (IOM, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Mobile Livelihoods: Borderland dynamics between Uganda and South Sudan (Rift Valley Institute, March 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

A Region on the Move: Mobility Trends in West and Central Africa, January–December 2021 (IOM, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR Position on Returns to Ethiopia (UNHCR, March 2022) [text]

“We Will Erase You From This Land”: Crimes against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone (Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (5 March 2022)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (5 March 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

Flooding Displacement in Malawi: Policy, Practice, and Prevention (GENIDA Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

Joint Statement on the outcome of the second High-Level Bilateral meeting between the Government of the Republic of South Africa and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Jan. 2022) [text]

Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Kenya: Legal challenges and recommendations (GENIDA Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

Understanding the implications of Institutionalizing the Kampala Convention in Ethiopia (GENIDA Blog, Feb. 2022) [text]

When ID leaves you without identity: the case of double registration in Kenya (Privacy International, Dec. 2021) [access]

Reports & book chapters:

COVID-19 and social and economic rights of migrants in Mali: Analysis of 4Mi data collected in Mali between July 2020 and January 2021 (Mixed Migration Centre & OHCHR, Jan. 2022) [text]

"Decoding Africa’s Legal Protection Mechanisms for Refugees," Chapter in Revisiting the 1951 Refugee Convention: Exploring Global Perspectives (Observer Research Foundation & Global Policy Journal, 2022) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 62.

"Revisiting Freedom of Trade, Occupation, and Movement of Refugees in South Africa," Chapter in Revisiting the 1951 Refugee Convention: Exploring Global Perspectives (Observer Research Foundation & Global Policy Journal, 2022) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 67.

Journal articles:

"Depression and Occupational Reintegration among IDPs in Jos," Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 11, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"The impact of COVID-19 on the living and survival conditions of internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso," World Development Perspectives, vol. 25 (March 2022) [free full-text]

"No sources of fuelwood, all vegetation cover is done! Women Livelihoods and Environmental Prominence in Oil Induced Displaced Society in Albertine Graben, Uganda," Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 11, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: conceptual analysis of a looming 'Complex Disaster Emergency'," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:6 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

"The right to return to one's country in Africa: Article 12(2) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights," African Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 21, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

"Suicide Attempts Among Adult Eritrean Refugees in Tigray, Ethiopia: Prevalence and Associated Factors," Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, vol. 15 (2022) [open access]

Resource:

GENIDA e-learning on Internally Displaced Persons [access]

- This free "provides insight into the key issues surrounding internal displacement including but not limited to understanding who IDPs are, gender and internal displacement, law and policy on internal displacement, health and internal displacement, governance and internal displacement, among others. In a one-week session, this course gives you access to an open-access online learning experience, materials and key concepts for discussion."

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (18 Jan. 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Job announcement: Advocate or Senior Advocate for East and Southern Africa, Refugees International [info]

- No application deadline indicated.

Call for applications: 2022 Julia Taft Refugee Fund [info]

- Open to registered non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with at least two years of experience working in Kenya. Apply by 28 January 2022.

Blog posts & press:

Land disputes in South Sudan continue to affect refugees and IDPs (Africa at LSE Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]

'New Refugee regime' or just a 'Brand new second hand' in Kenya'? [access]

- Twitter thread on Kenya Refugee Act with link to the text.

UNHCR recommends the cessation of refugee status for Ivorians (UNHCR, Oct. 2021) [text]

"Why the return of displaced people is such a thorny issue in South Sudan," The New Humanitarian, 5 Jan. 2022 [text]

Reports: 

African Migration Trends to Watch in 2022 (Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Durable solutions to migration challenges in East Africa and the Horn, East Africa Report, no. 43 (Institute for Security Studies, Nov. 2021) [text]

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Refugees and Their Protection in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, ABI Working Paper, no. 18 (Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, Oct. 2021) [text]

- Additional resources related to this study are provided here in the form of multi-lingual executive summaries and country-specific infographics.

"Everyone was overwhelmed by the fears and the panic of the unknown disease": Kenyan Refugee Protection and the COVID-19 Pandemic, IMIS Working Paper, no. 10 (Universität Osnabrück, 2021) [text]

Inclusion of Refugees in Government Social Protection Systems in Africa (UNHCR, Jan. 2021) [text]

Local Humanitarian Action in Burkina Faso: Translating rhetoric into action (Oxfam, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR Country Strategy Evaluation: Zambia, ES/2021/11 (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]

Related posts

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (14 Dec. 2021)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (14 Dec. 2021)

Thematic Focus: Gender Issues

Blog posts & press:

Gender-based violence survivors learn to rebuild engines as they rebuild lives (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]

- Focuses on the DRC.

How gender norms influence school enrollment and domestic work for Syrian refugee adolescents in Jordan (Development for Peace Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

Refugee women scale Atlas mountain to tackle gender violence (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]

- Focuses on Morocco.

Refugee women take the lead in combating gender-based violence (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]

- Focuses on Malaysia.

UNHCR urges support to address worsening gender-based violence impact on displaced women and girls (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]

We interviewed 150 women migrants – revealing how their journeys involve peril at every turn (The Conversation, Nov. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Allies, access and (collective) action: Young refugee women’s navigation of gendered educational constraints in Greece," DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"Better to be Raped than to be Killed": A Gendered Analysis of Internal Displacement in Burkina Faso, RID Working Paper, no. 5 (Researching Internal Displacement, Nov. 2021) [text]

Forced migration and sexual and gender-based violence: findings from the SEREDA project in the UK (Univ. of Birmingham, Nov. 2021) [text]

- See also related LSE British Politics and Policy blog post.

"Gendered aspects of distress migration: Taking note of Rohingya voices," DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"The impact of interventions to reduce risk and incidence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict states and other humanitarian crises in low and middle income countries: a systematic review," Conflict and Health, 15:86 (Nov. 2021) [open access]

In Harm's Way: Adolescent Girls in Northwest Syria: Survivors of Vulnerability, Inequality and Discrimination (Plan International, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Intersectionality and refugee women: The shortcomings of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum from an intersectional perspective (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Nov. 2021) [text]

"When does migration law discriminate against women?," AJIL Unbound, vol. 115 (2021) [open access]

The Women Peace and Security Index: A new lens on forced displacement (International Rescue Committee & Georgetown Univ., Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Women's Barriers to Access Humanitarian Services (Danish Refugee Council et al., Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

Protection and Empowerment of Displaced Women and Girls from Central America and Mexico: Using the MIRPS framework to protect, assist and empower, 7 Dec. 2021 [access]

- See also related press release and news story.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender Issues (12 Nov. 2021)

Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

Eritrean refugees caught between a rock and a hard place in Ethiopian conflict (FluchtforschungsBlog, Nov. 2021) [text]

How religion helped African migrants during a risky Atlantic crossing (The Conversation, Nov. 2021) [text]

Rebuilding a future for the displaced people of Burkina Faso: a Resident Coordinator Blog (UN News, Nov. 2021) [text]

Social workers rally support for displaced people in northern Ethiopia (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]

New open access book: 

Invisibility in African Displacements: From Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance (Zed Books, Oct. 2020) [open access]

- "This book offers fine-grained analysis of the ways in which African migrants negotiate structural and strategic invisibilities, adding innovative approaches to our understanding of both migrant vulnerabilities and resilience."

Reports & journal articles:

Analyse des besoins essentiels et de la vulnérabilité des réfugiés au Tchad (UNHCR & WFP, Oct. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

*Assessing the Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19 on Forcibly Displaced Populations, Thematic Brief, no. 1: The Case of Kenya (UNHCR, Sept. 2021) [text]

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on refugees and their protection in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, Working Paper, no. 18 (Arnold Bergstraesser Institut, Oct. 2021) [text]

Impacts of Displacement: Displaced by Violence, Jos, Nigeria (IDMC, Oct. 2021) [text]

Impacts of Displacement: Drought displacement in Gode Woreda, Ethiopia (IDMC, Oct. 2021) [text]

Impacts of Displacement: Flood displacement in Beledweyne, Somalia (IDMC, Oct. 2021) [text]

"Mobility dynamics in protracted displacement: Eritreans and Congolese on the move," Forced Migration Review, no. 68 (Nov. 2021) [open access]

"The Plight of Refugees in South Africa," Pretoria Student Law Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (2021) [full-text]

Protecting Vulnerable Refugees: An empirical examination of the implementation practices of aid workers and state actors in Uganda, Research Report, no. 1 (VULNER Project, 2021) [text]

- See also related policy brief.

Sudan at a crossroads: The mixed migration consequences of Sudan’s military coup (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2021) [text]

Understanding the Socioeconomic Differences of Urban and Camp-Based Refugees in Kenya (UNHCR & World Bank, 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Understanding the Socio-Economic Conditions of Urban Refugees in Kenya, Volume C: Urban Refugees: Results from the 2020-2021 Urban Socioeconomic Survey (UNHCR & World Bank, 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also the two earlier published studies, Volume A: Kalobeyei Settlement and Volume B: Kakuma Camp. 

Multimedia:

The politicisation of aid in Ethiopia (Rethinking Humanitarianism, Nov. 2021) [access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (2 Nov. 2021)

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2 (2 Nov. 2021)

Regional Focus: Africa

Opportunities:

Survey: Assessing Public Awareness on the existence of policy, law data and measures on internal displacement in Africa [info]

- No deadline indicated.

Job announcement: Research Officer, LERRN, Carleton Univ. [info]

- Candidate will provide support to the project, "Knowledge Ecosystems on Forced Displacement in East Africa and the Middle East." Apply by 18 August 2021.

Call for applications: RSC-BIEA Fellowship in Refugee Studies [info]

- New 12-month fellowship for 12 aspiring researchers with a displacement background and mainly based in East Africa. Submit applications by 30 August 2021. Note: Learn more via information sessions held on 12, 17 & 23 August 2021.

Report launch: Missing persons: high cost of conflict and violence in Africa, 30 August 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

12,000 indigenous Zimbabweans could be forced from their land (African Arguments, Aug. 2021) [text]

COVID-19 socioeconomic impact worsens for refugees in Uganda (UNHCR Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

Excluding migrants undermines the success of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts (The Conversation, July 2021) [text]

New centre at UCT to offer refugee law training (UCT News, Aug. 2021) [text]

UNHCR regains access to Tigray refugee camps, calls for emergency funds to scale up assistance (UNHCR, Aug. 2021) [text]

New open access book:

Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning: The Built Environment as an Added Educator in East African Refugee Camps (UCL Press, Aug. 2021) [info]

- Note: The complete text will be accessible as of 16 Aug. 2021.

Reports & journal articles:

Cornered by Conflict: Eritrean Refugees in Northern Ethiopia Need Resettlement in a Safe Third Country (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Effect of an Economic Transfer Program on Mental Health of Displaced Persons and Host Populations in Democratic Republic of Congo: A Randomised Controlled Trial (Innovations for Poverty Action, Oct. 2020) [text]

- See also video recording of related webinar.

"Ethical and Practical Reflections of Resident Anthropologists in Conflict Zones: Experiences from the Tokwe Mukosi Dam Project and Displacement at Chingwizi, Zimbabwe," The Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man, vol. 21, no. 1 (2021) [free full-text]

“Millions of People Continue to be Forcibly Displaced in Africa,” Cairo Review, no. 42 (Summer 2021) [full-text]

Note on the identification of hard-to-reach Malian refugees in Mauritania (UNHCR, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

UNHCR Position on Returns to Burkina Faso (UNHCR, July 2021) [text]

"Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic - responses from Uganda and South Africa," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:37 (Aug. 2021) [open access]

Resource:

Global Engagement Network on Internal Displacement in Africa (GENIDA) [access]

- "The GENIDA Project is the first of its kind in Africa. It is a network geared towards the protection of internally displaced persons in Africa. GENIDA seeks to advance sustainable solutions while also bridging the gap between research and policy responses. GENIDA provides a useful platform for critical engagement on solutions to the issue of internal displacement, an issue that affects more than 12 million people in Africa." More info is provided in this related blog post.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (29 July 2021)

Regional Focus: Africa

Blog posts & press:

Conducting surveys safely during a pandemic: perspectives from Ghana (MIGNEX Insight, March 2021) [text]

“The guards had no compassion”: The migrants abandoned in Niger’s desert (African Arguments, May 2021) [text]

‘IDPs’ and the Politics of Labels: Young Migrants in Cameroon’s ‘Anglophone Crisis’ (African Arguments, April 2021) [text]

Joint statement by the Government of Kenya and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Dadaab and Kakuma Refugee Camps Roadmap (UNHCR, April 2021) [text]

Reports:

Atrocities and Displacement in Burkina Faso (Refugees International, May 2021) [text]

- See also related UNHCR news briefing.

“Fixing” people in place through policy and development? Efficacy and unintended consequences of migration deterrence in Kantché (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2021) [text]

- Focuses on Niger.

Learning Lessons from the EUTF, Phase 2: Paving the way for future programming on migration, mobility and forced displacement (European Union, Feb. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Note: EUTF = European Union Emergency Trust Fund for stability and addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in Africa

Monitoring COVID-19 Impact on Refugees in Ethiopia: Results from the High-Frequency Phone Surveys of Refugees, Report no. 2 (Joint Data Center, April 2021) [text]

Thematic Note on Agriculture and Land Use: Overview of access to land and its uses by refugees in the Maratane Camp and host communities in Mozambique (UNHCR, April 2021) [text]

A Region on the Move: 2020 Mobility Overview in the East and Horn of Africa and the Arab Peninsula (IOM, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Deconstructing borders: Mobility strategies of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda," Global Network, Early View, 3 May 2021 [open access]

"Effect of beneficiary participation in program design and implementation on satisfaction and acceptability among internally displaced persons in Borno, Nigeria," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 6:9 (May 2021) [open access]

"An exploratory pilot study of the effect of modified hygiene kits on handwashing with soap among internally displaced persons in Ethiopia," Conflict and Health, 15:35 (May 2021) [open access]

"Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food rations of refugees in Rwanda," International Journal for Equity in Health, 20:107 (April 2021) [open access]

Journal of African Law, vol. 65, Supp. S1 (May 2021) [open access]

- Special issue on "Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa," with eight articles that variously discuss refugee law, the Global Compact on Refugees, IDP protection, internally displaced children, the African Commission's comment on freedom of movement, and xenophobia in South Africa.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (26 April 2021)