Refugees & forced migration
RSS FeedGlobal: Italian village welcomes refugees with open arms
2010-02-05, Issue 468
An Italian village is hoping to reverse its population decline by welcoming refugees from around the world. The immigrants get free room and board and are expected to work and learn Italian in return. The project is proving highly successful - but th...
Somalia: Violence uproots 80,000 in January alone
2010-02-05, Issue 468
The United Nations refugee agency has reported that a sharp rise in violence in Somalia in January left nearly 260 civilians dead, in addition to uprooting over 80,000 and causing widespread destruction. According to local sources, intense clashes be...
Egypt: Police kill two black migrants
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Egyptian border police shot dead two African migrants who tried to escape into Israel through the Sinai border, bringing the number of migrants killed this week to four. Police sources say they refused orders to stop. They were a 26-year-old Eritrean...
Sudan: Darfur rebel infighting drives 10,000 from their homes
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Infighting in one of Darfur's rebel groups has driven at least 10,000 people from their homes in the restive Jabel Marra area, deepening the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's west, officials said. Darfur's rebels have fractured into dozens of groups sin...
DRC: Of fish wars and displacement
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Rival ethnic communities in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have clashed many times over the years, but most recently over fish, observers say. More than 200 people have died and another 150,000 have fled to the neighbouring Republic of Con...
Nigeria: Aid agencies “staggered” by IDP numbers
2010-01-28, Issue 467
Relief agencies are struggling to help the some 18,000 displaced people in 17 makeshift camps in and around the central Nigerian city of Jos. Most of the displaced do not have enough food and they lack access to toilet facilities and safe drinking wa...
Sudan: School project in Darfur helps to build bridges between communities
2010-01-29, Issue 467
Thanks to funding from the UN refugee agency, hundreds of primary schoolchildren in Sudan's volatile West Darfur state no longer have to study in the open. At the same time, UNHCR is helping to form bonds between different ethnic groups and avoid con...
Global: Lancet article calls for changes in health care practice for conflict-afflicted
2010-01-29, Issue 467
An article in The Lancet medical journal, co-authored by a UNHCR expert, says health care for people in conflict settings needs to be updated. It calls for changes in four key areas: delivery of health services; treatment of chronic diseases; develop...
Global: Expulsions from EU rise sharply
2010-01-29, Issue 467
At least 1,570 individuals were removed from the EU's territory in 31 flights coordinated by the bloc's external borders agency Frontex between Jan. 1 and Dec. 15 last year. This represented a tripling in joint expulsions - involving authorities from...
West Africa: Refugees in Cameroon: An overview
Justice Mukete Tahle Itoe
2010-01-22, Issue 466
This article attempts to highlight the plight of refugees, asylum seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) in the Cameroon and to showcase the state of available protection mechanism at their disposal within existing legislation and in the li...
DRC: Concern for refugees rises as river runs low
2010-01-22, Issue 466
John Kanilamba sits under the porch of a half-finished house on the outskirts of Dongou - his home, despite its lack of doors and windows - since early November. His four children play idly at his feet, all refugees from inter-communal clashes in Equ...
Nigeria: Thousands displaced in Jos riots
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Several thousand residents of Jos, in central Nigeria, are displaced after their homes burned in deadly sectarian clashes, according to residents and the local Red Cross. Local authorities have not confirmed the death toll from the 17 January violenc...
Africa: Eritrea, Libya conspiring to deport refugees, group says
2010-01-22, Issue 466
An Exiled Eritrean rights group, Solidarity Association for Justice and Democracy in Eritrea said that Libyan authorities along with representative of the Eritrean government in Tripoli are conspiring to deport hundreds of Eritrean refugees who are C...
Kenya: Corruption keeps resettlement funds from IDPs
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Kenya’s government faces internal wrangling over the allocation of 1.4 billion shillings ($19 million) to buy land for IDPs. The Standard newspaper has reported that government officials have taken millions of shillings meant for resettling IDPs and ...
Somalia: Insecurity causes new displacement and suspension of food aid
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Fighting between pro-government militias and the Al-Shabaab rebel group has caused continuing death and displacement in central Somalia. Clashes concentrated in the areas of Wabho, Warhole, and Beladweyne killed 27 civilians and displaced some 250 pa...
DRC: Massive refugee influx straining neighbours’ resources – UN
2010-01-15, Issue 465
A massive influx of 125,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into neighbouring Republic of Congo (ROC) and Central African Republic (CAR) after deadly ethnic clashes is severely stretching the meagre resources of the impoveris...
Somalia: Surge in fighting uproots more Somalis
2010-01-15, Issue 465
The United Nations refugee agency has warned that many parts of central Somalia are witnessing a surge in fighting, sparking growing displacement and worsening the plight of an already beleaguered population....
DRC: Over 100, 000 refugees flee
2010-01-15, Issue 465
More than 107,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have fled to the Republic of Congo since early November of last year. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, another 17,000 refugees have crossed into the Central Afr...
Global: UN-backed microfinance project to benefit thousands of refugees
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Tens of thousands of displaced people around the world will get micro-loans to set up their own businesses and become self-sufficient thanks to a new agreement between the UN refugee agency and a microfinance services organisation set up by Banglades...
CAR: Refugees not ready to return
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Assurances from authorities in Kinshasa that peace had been restored to their home areas in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo carry little weight with thousands of refugees across the Ubangi River in the Central African Republic (CAR): they a...
Ethiopia: Asylum seeker released after a year in Egyptian prison
Egyptian Foundation for Refugee Rights
2010-01-08, Issue 464
Medhine is an Ethiopian Asylum seeker; she spent more than a year in the Egyptian Prison for illegal entry to Egypt. During her one year of detention, she lost her young daughter, who was suffering from severe diarrhea and vomiting. EFRR handled this...
Chad: Tackling FGM in refugee camps
2010-01-08, Issue 464
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Chad is identifying pregnant women in refugee camps who have had their genitalia cut, in order to better prepare for potential complications, according to UNHCR and its medical partners. The exercise is part of effort...
Global: 2009 a bad year for migrants
2009-12-18, Issue 462
Many governments' policies toward migrants worldwide expose them to human rights abuses including labor exploitation, inadequate access to health care, and prolonged detention in poor, overcrowded conditions, Human Rights Watch has said, in advance o...
Global: Migrants tell of exploitation and detention
2009-12-18, Issue 462
People across the world leave their homes, families and countries in search of work and education, and to escape poverty, discrimination and conflict. Many risk everything, even their lives, for security and a chance to earn a living. At every step, ...
Guinea: Refugees flock into Senegal
2009-12-18, Issue 462
Uncertainty surrounding the impasse in Guinea Conakry is forcing Guineans to flee their country. Reports say that about 200 Guineans have been registered to have entered Senegal through its borders with the troubled West African nation....
South Africa: Zimbabwean teenage asylum-seeker learns the high cost of freedom
2009-12-18, Issue 462
When 18-year-old Tsitsi Makwiyena looks down at her son Desmond in her arms, she sees not just a one-week-old perfect baby boy, but also the high price she paid to escape her home country of Zimbabwe and start a new life in urban South Africa...
Kenya: Nowhere to hide from climate change in refugee camp
2009-12-18, Issue 462
Dulane Jama and his family suffered in silence for three years in a remote corner of eastern Ethiopia before he finally decided to go and look for a safe place to live before they all died. After an arduous and dangerous trek across Somalia, he ended...
Somalia: Rape "a major problem” for Bosasso IDPs
2009-12-18, Issue 462
The number of reported rapes in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Bosasso, in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, is increasing and rape has become "a major problem", says a civil society source....
Global: African countries condemned for poor migrants treatment
2009-12-10, Issue 461
Several participants attending a forum on migration in the Arab and African regions have deplored the conditions in which migrants who are either in transit or in residence are treated....
South Africa: Improve migrants’ access to health care
2009-12-10, Issue 461
South African health care professionals are endangering the health of the country's large foreign population by routinely denying health care and treatment to thousands of asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants, Human Rights Watch has said in a repor...
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