Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2

Reports: 

2024 Regional Population Data Analysis (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

- Focuses on Southern Africa.

Accelerating Localization: A Roadmap for The Sudan Humanitarian Fund (Refugees International, Sept. 2025) [text]

Asylum policy under threat: The case of Uganda (Danish Refugee Council, Sept. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Beyond Survival: Reimagining Humanitarian Action in Nigeria (Nigeria INGO Forum, Aug. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Enhanced Protection and Solutions for Refugees through Inclusion in Ethiopia's National Digital ID Program (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

Guidance Note on Guinea (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

"If I had known it would be this hard, I wouldn’t have taken the risk": Examining onward and mixed movements along the Western Indian Ocean Route (Mixed Migration Centre & UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

*Investing in development responses to forced displacement in Africa (African Development Bank & UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

A lifeline at risk: food assistance at a breaking point (World Food Programme, Sept. 2025) 

- Niger country report

- Refugees in Uganda country report

- South Sudan country report (not yet published)

The most common routes used by refugees and asylum-seekers in 2025 in Southern Africa (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

[Regional Updates on UNHCR Operations], 76th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme (Sept. 2025) 

- East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes

- Southern Africa

- West and Central Africa

Southern Africa and Western Indian Ocean Routes: Route Based Approach (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:

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

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 2

Journal articles:

"The Constitutionality of the National Health Insurance Bill: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers," Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, vol. 25 (March 2022) [open access]

- Focuses on South Africa.

"COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among refugees in Bidibidi refugee settlement, Northern Uganda," Journal of Global Health Reports, vol. 6 (2022) [open access]

"The Disappearance of Refugee Rights in South Africa," Obiter, vol. 43, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Do Refugee Camps Offer a Refuge from Conflict? A Spatially Explicit Analysis of Conflict Incidence at 1,543 Refugee Camps Across Africa (1997–2020)," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 28 March 2022 [open access]

"Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa," Comparative Migration Studies, 10:10 (March 2022) [open access]

"Perceptions and Attitudes of the Local Community towards Urban Refugees Living in Mbarara City, Southwestern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study," Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, vol. 3, no. 3 (March 2022) [open access]

"The right to water for internally displaced persons in the Sahel region," International Review of the Red Cross, FirstView, 9 March 2022 [delayed open access]

- Note: The complete text will eventually be made freely available on ICRC's website.

"Risky journeys: Risk and decision-making among potential irregular migrants in Senegal and Guinea," International Migration, Early View, 31 March 2022 [open access]

"Rwandan Refugee Rights in Uganda: Between Law and Practice–Views from Below," ISIL Yearbook of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law, vol. XX-XXI (2020-21) [preprint]

"Using Land to Promote Refugee Self-Reliance in Uganda," Land, vol. 11, no. 3 (March 2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

Unpacking migration challenges in East Africa and the Horn, 22 March 2022 [access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1 (6 April 2022)

Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Funding opportunity: NGO Projects Benefiting Refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya [info]
- Proposal submission deadline is 27 February 2019.

Funding opportunity: NGO Projects Benefiting Refugees in South Sudan [info]
- Proposal submission deadline is 1 March 2019.

UNHCR evaluations in 2018: 

Évaluation des Interventions de l’UNHCR en Matiere des Moyens de Subsistance et d’Autosuffisance en République de Guinee de 2012 a 2017 (Oct. 2018) [text]
- See also annexes.

Évaluation des Interventions sur les Moyens de Subsistance du UNHCR au Bénin 2015-2017 (mi-parcours) (July 2018) [text]
- See also management response.

Évaluation Externe des Programmes de Moyens de Subsistance 2015-17 dans les Zones d’Accueil des Réfugiés au Tchad (July 2018) [text]
- See also management response.

Evaluation of UNHCR’s Country Operations in Angola, Botswana and Namibia: Assessment of Phasing Down UNHCR Presence during the Period 2012-2016 (June 2018) [text]
- See also management response.

Independent Evaluation of the UNHCR South Sudanese Refugee Response in White Nile State, Sudan (2013-2018) (Aug. 2018) [text]
- See also management response.

Independent Evaluation of UNHCR’s Response to the L3 Emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Dec. 2018) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Africa (22 Jan. 2019)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

Regional Focus: Africa

Administrative Contempt: South Africa’s Refusal to Reopen the Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office (RefLaw Blog, June 2016) [text]

Community Consultations on Humanitarian Aid: Findings from Guinea (World Humanitarian Summit, May 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

Community Consultations on Humanitarian Aid: Findings from South Sudan (World Humanitarian Summit, May 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

"A Dark Side of Democratization in Africa: Displacement of Population and Open Door Asylum in Kenya and South Africa," Chapter 7 in Constitutionalism, Democratic Governance and the African State (Black Mask, Dec. 2015) [full-text via ResearchGate]

Forgotten Conflicts: Blue Nile (IRIN, June 2016) [text]

Joint Communiqué: Ministerial Tripartite Commission for the Voluntary Repatriation of Somali Refugees from Kenya to Somalia, Nairobi, 21 June 2016 [text]

MSF Internal Review of the February 2016 Attack on the Malakal Protection of Civilians Site and the Post-event Situation (MSF, June 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

"No one on the earth cares if we survive except God and sometimes UNAMID": The Challenges of Peacekeeping in Darfur (International Refugee Rights Initiative, June 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

North East Nigeria: Vulnerability Screening Report: Round II (UNHCR, June 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

*A Report on the Profiles of Internally Displaced Persons Living in Camps of Kismayo (Govt. of Somalia, June 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

*Somali Refugees Struggle in Shadow of Forced Return (Refugees Deeply, June 2016) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Africa (17 June 2016)

Tagged Publications.

New ETDs - Part 2

(ETDs = Electronic Theses & Dissertations)

Making a Way When There is no Way: The Experiences and Challenges of Gang Affected Young Adult Refugees in Winnipeg, Thesis (Univ. of Manitoba, Aug. 2013) [text]

NGOs' Position & Role in the Dublin II Discussion: A Case Study on the Involvement of the Advocacy Networks ECRE and Pro Asyl in the European Asylum Policy, Thesis (Lund Univ., Spring 2013) [text]

Overcoming Invisibility: The Meaning and Process of Returnee Reintegration, Dissertation (American Univ., Aug. 2013) [text]

Street of Refuge: Public Space for Urban Refugees, Thesis (Delft Univ. of Technology, Sept. 2013) [access]

"Stuck in Thorns": The Effects of Power on Liberian Refugees in Guinea, Thesis (Bergen Univ., Spring 2013) [text]

A Tale of Two Organizations: UNRWA and UNHCR in Lebanon, Thesis (Central European Univ., 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications. 

New Publications on Haiti, Health & Natural Disasters

Joint UNHCR-OHCHR Return Advisory Update on Haiti (UNHCR & OHCHR, June 2011) [text]

Post-quake Haiti: Security Depends on Resettlement and Development (International Crisis Group, June 2011) [text]

"Reproductive Health for Refugees by Refugees in Guinea IV: Peer Education and HIV Knowledge, Attitudes, and Reported Practices," Conflict and Health 5:10 (July 2011) [open access article]

Research in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2 (The Lancet, July 2011) [access]

- See also related article.

Responding to Natural Disasters: What Role for the OSCE?, Vienna, 19 May 2011 (International Peace Institute, June 2011) [text]

UNHCR’s Role in Support of an Enhanced Humanitarian Response for the Protection of Persons Affected by Natural Disasters, UN Doc. No. EC/62/SC/CRP.19 (EXCOM Standing Committee, June 2011) [text]

Tagged Publications.

Publications: AlertNet, Asylum Seekers & Counsel/US, Civilian Prot./Libya, Reprod. Health/Guinea, RSD/Canada

"Hundreds of Asylum Seekers Detained Without Counsel," La Linea (Spring 2011) [full-text]

An Interview with our 2011 Voices of Courage Honoree Thomson Reuters Foundation (Women's Refugee Commission Blog, March 2011) [text]

Libya: Protecting Civilians in a Drawn-Out Conflict (Refugees International, April 2011) [text]

OAS Rights Body Rules Canada Must Give Individualized Determination to Refugee Claimants (CCR, April 2011) [text]

- See also text of IACHR decision.

"Reproductive Health for Refugees by Refugees in Guinea III: Maternal Health," Conflict and Health 5:5 (April 2011) [open access article]

Tagged Publications.