Residents of a Gauteng camp for refugees from xenophobic violence risk being thrown out of the country if they don’t register for temporary ID cards.
A series of tragedies involving migrants off the coast of Spain has raised fears that the summer could see a record death toll in the region.
”Inhuman conditions” forced the Institute for Islamic Services to stop its relief work in refugee camps in Pretoria last week.
The British Home Office is continuing to order failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers to return home in the face of mounting violence.
Volunteer psychologists in Cape Town speak of a sense of profound hopelessness among foreigners. Men came forward for therapy more readily than women.
Thousands of child refugees from Darfur, some as young as nine, are being abducted and sold to warring militias as child soldiers, a British human rights group reports.
A damning exit report by a team of experts blasts the Department of Home Affairs for failing asylum-seekers in South Africa.
United Nations peacekeepers are protecting a camp of civilians forced to flee fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
There were a few tense moments on Monday when a crowd of several hundred refugees marched to Parliament to air their grievances over the recent xenophobic violence. After being addressed by, among others, Zackie Achmat of the Treatment Action Campaign, sections of the crowd surged towards a small line of police officers outside the main gates of Parliament.
On a beach in Bosaso, north-east Somalia, near the tip of the Horn of Africa, dozens of Somali and Ethiopian refugees perch on rocks or squat in the sand, peering across the Gulf of Aden to the promised land. They are waiting for boats to carry them to Yemen and away from a life of miserable poverty, persecution and a war in Somalia.