Refugees & forced migration
RSS FeedUganda: Refugees face hunger as farming ban bites
2010-03-18, Issue 474
A farming ban imposed on Rwandan refugees in southwestern Uganda is raising concerns for their food security, while proposed cash transfers could boost both food prices and theft, warn aid workers and local officials, who are urging the government to...
Africa: Eritrean refugee in Halifax commits suicide after losing case
2010-03-18, Issue 474
An Eritrean refugee in Halifax killed himself in late February after losing an asylum appeal to Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board. Habtom Kibraeb, 40, was found dead, hanging from a tree in the Clayton Park area. Kibraeb had spent several years ...
Uganda: 'We are treated like animals'
2010-03-19, Issue 474
All Pherebonia Nyiramatabaro, 85, wants is land where she and her 15-year-old grandson can grow a few crops. Nyiramatabaro, living in a two-roomed hut in Juru A camp in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement, southwestern Uganda, is one of thousands of Rwan...
Kenya: Film helps empower young Ugandan refugee in camp
2010-03-19, Issue 474
Kate Ofwono recently visited Geneva to join UNHCR events linked to International Women's Day. The 23-year-old refugee from Uganda took part in a panel discussion and presented a film she made about her life in Kakuma camp. She fled to the camp in nor...
Kenya: New hope for IDPs
2010-03-19, Issue 474
Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kenya are set to enjoy greater protection under a national policy that also aims to prevent future displacement and to fulfil the country's obligations under international IDP law, say analysts....
Uganda: One doctor for 16,200 refugees
2010-03-12, Issue 473
Inadequate healthcare is just one of many challenges facing the 16,200 refugees in this sprawling camp in western Uganda, which is served by a single doctor. Among those waiting in one of the camp’s two health centres when IRIN visited was Mirian, 30...
Uganda: Aid workers battle to help "forgotten" refugees
2010-03-11, Issue 473
With at least 67,000 refugees in southwest Uganda, the government and aid workers are still battling inadequate resources in what a UN official described as a "silent emergency". "We can hardly meet international standards of indicators such as water...
Egypt: CMRS Short Courses June 2010
2010-03-12, Issue 473
The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo AUC is offering two short courses on refugee issues in June 2010. The first course on "Meeting the Psychosocial Needs of Refugees" will be offered from 9:30 a.m t...
Egypt: 14 Egyptian NGOs demand a halt of migrant killings on Israel borders
2010-03-12, Issue 473
Fourteen Egyptian human rights groups have expressed their full support of the statement issued by the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights which condemned the Egyptian security forces for killing up to 60 migrants on the Egyptian side of the borders...
Burundi: 155,000 Burundian refugees granted Tanzanian citizenship
2010-03-12, Issue 473
About 155,000 Burundian refugees, seeking Tanzanian citizenship, have had their requests granted, according to a communiqué from the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), published on Thursday in Bujumbura, the Burundi capital....
Southern Africa:Botswana deports DRC refugees
2010-03-03, Issue 472
The Government of Botswana has forcibly returned at 4 of the 10 families of the 41 Congolese refugees who fled Namibia last July, a reliable government source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said....
Congo: UN launch $59 mln appeal to cover urgent needs of 110,000
2010-03-05, Issue 472
Since October 2009 a total of 114,017 refugees have fled armed clashes in Equateur Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and found refuge in the Republic of Congo (RoC). These clashes originated in inter-communal disputes over farmin...
DRC: Over 2.1 million IDPs in the context of deteriorating humanitarian conditions
2010-02-26, Issue 471
Fighting between militia groups and Congolese armed forces supported by the UN, as well as attacks and violence against civilians, caused the displacement of around a million people in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2009. A...
Zimbabwe: Children that slip across borders
2010-02-26, Issue 471
Zimbabwe's still-limping economy can provide few essential services, so children living along the border cross into South Africa to attend school during the day or even to see a doctor, often at great risk to their personal safety....
South Africa: Court releases illegally detained asylum seeker
2010-02-26, Issue 471
South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the Department of Home Affairs on 24 February 2010 to immediately release an Ethiopian asylum seeker from "unlawful" detention after he had languished in repatriation centres for over nine months....
Global: International Summer School in Forced Migration
2010-02-19, Issue 470
The Refugee Studies Centre’s International Summer School fosters dialogue between academics, practitioners and policymakers working to improve the situation of refugees and other forced migrants. It provides the time and space for them to reflect on ...
Eurpoean summer school - Universite de Bruxelles
2010-02-19, Issue 470
The aim of the Summer School is to provide its participants with an comprehensive understanding of the immigration and asylum policy of the European Union from a legal point of view. The programme is organised by the "Academic Network for Legal Studi...
Horn of Africa: Ethiopia opens fifth camp for Somali refugees
2010-02-19, Issue 470
The Ethiopian government and United Nations have opened a new refugee camp for thousands of Somalis fleeing violence in the Horn of Africa country. Somalia shares its northwestern border with Ethiopia, which has experienced a growing influx of Somali...
Central Africa: Refugees flood Congo-Brazzaville
2010-02-19, Issue 470
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Congo-Brazzaville has said it is expecting more displaced people to pour in from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. The UNHCR said that more than 120,000 refugees are already crammed into c...
Nigeria: Jos displaced dread return
2010-02-12, Issue 469
Some 15,400 people who fled violence in the central Nigerian city of Jos remain displaced three weeks later and despite dire living conditions, many do not plan to return and rebuild their destroyed homes....
Global: Haiti's Homeless Hotel
IRIN'S new film on displacement
2010-02-12, Issue 469
IRIN Films is pleased to release a short film about displacement in Haiti as part of our series on internal displacement entitled Forced to Flee. Filmed in late 2009, just weeks before the earthquake struck, this short film tells the extraordinary st...
Global: Humanitarian system gets a "B-minus"
2010-02-12, Issue 469
The emergency aid industry has improved but must try harder, according to the broadest ever assessment of its performance. Reviewers from the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in humanitarian action (ALNAP) assessed how well ...
Chad: Government taken to task over Darfur refugees
2010-02-12, Issue 469
Amnesty International (AI) has called on the Chadian government to allow UN peacekeepers to continue protecting 250,000 refugees from Darfur and 170,000 internally-displaced people (IDPs) in the east of the country....
Global: 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...
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