Issa G. Shivji (2009) Where is Uhuru?.
Refugees & forced migration
RSS FeedNorth Africa: Egypt shoots dead two Somalis on Israel border
2009-07-03, Issue 440
In the third shooting incident in less than two weeks on Egypt’s border with Israel, two Somali refugees were shot dead Thursday morning by Egyptian border guards, according to a Somali refugee living in Cairo. He said that the refugees had been atte...
Kenya: IRC responds to measles outbreak in camp
2009-07-03, Issue 440
The International Rescue Committee is launching an emergency measles vaccination campaign targeting thousands of refugee children in Hagadera camp to contain an outbreak of the disease at the massively overcrowded site. The IRC has confirmed six case...
Somalia: Over 170,000 uprooted by clashes since May
2009-07-03, Issue 440
More than 170,000 people have been displaced from the Somali capital, Mogadishu, since early May when fresh fighting broke out began between Government forces and insurgents, the United Nations humanitarian wing has reported. In addition to those upr...
Somalia: Clashes force another 26,000 from their homes
2009-06-26, Issue 439
Ongoing clashes between Government forces and insurgents have uprooted another 26,000 people from the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in the past five days, the United Nations refugee agency has reported. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said...
Africa: AU plans landmark convention on internal refugees
2009-06-26, Issue 439
African countries are set to adopt a ground-breaking convention providing rights to millions of people forced to flee their homes because of conflict. Africa has some 12 million internally displaced people (IDPs) who are uprooted within their own cou...
Chad: UNHCR launches resettlement of refugees
2009-06-26, Issue 439
The UN refugee agency has begun a pilot programme to resettle 1,800 refugees in Chad to the United States, with a first group of 11 from several countries flying out of N'Djamena at the weekend. The group that left on Sunday included seven urban refu...
Morocco: African refugees targeted
2009-06-26, Issue 439
More than 300 African refugees are gathered at the gates of the Moroccan United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), asking to be moved to another country because their rights are not respected in Morocco. Several refugees say they have been beaten up by ...
Kenya: Thousands displaced in ethnic clashes in southwest
2009-06-26, Issue 439
Tension remains high in Kenya's southwestern district of Kuria East, on the Tanzania border, where at least 6,000 people have been displaced by inter-clan fighting, humanitarian officials said. "Although there is relative calm in the district, with n...
Africa: Distressed asylum-seekers in Israel lack state support
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Two hours later, there was no sign of what had taken place. The park in the Shapira neighborhood of southern Tel Aviv was again teeming with life. Foreign workers gradually arrived, filling the place up, children came to play and only a green garbage...
Chad: Going home to deadly danger
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Members of armed paramilitary groups are a serious threat to civilians who fled violence and insecurity and are now returning to their villages, Human Rights Watch has said in a report. People who have returned to their home regions have been killed,...
East Africa: Prevent forced return of refugees
2009-06-19, Issue 438
The Tanzanian and Ugandan governments should ensure that refugees living in camps due to close on June 30 and July 31, 2009 are not forcibly returned to their home countries and are immediately given full information about their options, Human Rights...
Global: The worst places to be a refugee
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Gaza, South Africa and Thailand are among the world's worst places to be a refugee, according to the latest annual World Refugee Survey released here Wednesday by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI). The survey, which was issued in...
Somalia: Latest Gulf of Aden smuggling mishap leaves 18 dead, 29 missing
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Eighteen people drowned and another 29 are missing and presumed dead after a smuggling boat capsized in the Gulf of Aden due to strong winds and rough seas this week off the coast of Yemen. The boat, which departed June 11 from the Somali village of ...
Tanzania: Statement of the situation in Mtabila refugee camp
2009-06-12, Issue 437
The encampment of hundreds of thousands of Burundian refugees in Tanzania is coming to an end after more than 20 years. Rather than respecting the safety and dignity of refugees through truly voluntary repatriation or the pursuit of alternative durab...
Somalia: Number of displaced nears 120,000
2009-06-12, Issue 437
The UN refugee agency has condemned the victimization of Somali civilians in Mogadishu after a weekend spike in the fighting in the capital sent thousands more people fleeing the city. This latest exodus pushed the number of displaced from the capita...
Kenya: Trapped in a metropolis of suffering
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, home to 270,000 Somali refugees, is the world's largest. Created 18 years ago as a stopgap, new fighting is driving thousands of additional refugees into the already overcrowded, overstretched camp....
Kenya: Relieve Somali refugee crisis
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The Kenyan government should rapidly fulfill its February 2009 pledge to provide more land for its mushrooming Somali refugee population, and donors should step up their financial support for the refugee camps, Human Rights Watch has said. The United...
Chad: Darfur refugees to receive identity cards under UN-backed scheme
2009-06-05, Issue 436
Some 110,000 Sudanese refugees over the age of 18 in eastern Chad will receive identity cards under a new programme launched with the support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). “The ID cards are the equivalent of a ‘refugee...
Cote d'Ivoire: Request for country condition research and expert advice
2009-05-28, Issue 435
The Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre Ltd.(HKRAC) is assisting a male, Muslim asylum claimant from central Cote d'Ivoire with family origins in northern Cote d'Ivoire. The claimant was involved in the local branch of the Rassemblement des Republicains ...
Sudan: 4.9 million IDPs face ongoing turmoil
2009-05-29, Issue 435
The IDMC has released a new profile of the situations of internal displacement in Sudan. As a result of Sudan’s numerous conflicts, about 4.9 million people remain internally displaced in the country; together they make up the single largest internal...
Somalia: Over 67,000 Somalis displaced by escalating fighting -UN
2009-05-29, Issue 435
The number of Somalis fleeing the latest escalation of fighting in and around Mogadishu has surpassed 67,000, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported today, adding that worsening security has also hampered aid delivery to t...
Somalia: UNHCR says 45,000 flee Mogadishu fighting
2009-05-22, Issue 433
The UN refugee agency says the number of people fleeing the Somali capital in the last 12 days has now risen to 45,000 despite the lull in fighting in the war-ravaged nation. A statement from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday...
Kenya: 'Exiled for life' in Somali camp
2009-05-22, Issue 433
Dadaab, in north-eastern Kenya, is the world's biggest refugee camp, home to 260,000 people. It was built in 1991 for Somalis fleeing the fighting that erupted with the collapse of Siad Barre's military regime. Eighteen years on, conflict is still ra...
Somalia: Number of displaced in Somali capital reaches 45,000 – UN
2009-05-22, Issue 433
Despite a lull in clashes between Government forces and insurgents in the Somali capital, the number of people who have fled Mogadishu in the past 12 days has climbed to 45,000, the United Nations refugee agency has reported....
DRC: Security Council team visits camp for internally displaced
2009-05-22, Issue 433
A Security Council delegation on a week-long visit to Africa met with internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today to assess efforts by the Government and the United Nations to consolidate peace and security...
East Africa: UNHCR steps up efforts to stem Gulf of Aden crossings as numbers mount
2009-05-22, Issue 433
Months have passed since Hoda's husband paid smugglers to take him from this port town in northern Somalia across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, but she has not heard a word from him. She now believes he probably drowned at sea. Despite such a vivid less...
Chad: Insecurity hampers access to refugees, displaced in east
2009-05-22, Issue 433
Growing insecurity in eastern Chad is limiting aid workers’ access to refugees and displaced Chadians, aid workers say. Rebels and government troops recently clashed in eastern Chad and armed banditry – long a problem in the region – is on the rise, ...
DRC: ICRC steps up efforts to help displaced people and their host communities
2009-05-15, Issue 432
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is stepping up its humanitarian activities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in response to the deterioration of the humanitarian situation that has taken place since autumn 2008...
Africa: Italy turns rescued migrants back
2009-05-08, Issue 431
The Italian navy has transferred more than 200 migrants picked up in waters off the island of Malta to Tripoli under a new agreement with Libya.The migrants were rescued after they issued a distress call on Wednesday. Italian Interior Minister Robert...
Burundi: The past is a foreign country for some refugees
2009-05-08, Issue 431
Ogeste Gelevasi sits in front of his humble house, looking out over fields of cassava and tobacco with a wide smile of contentment. He feels at home here in western Tanzania after almost 40 years as a refugee from neighbouring Burundi. For Ogeste, th...
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