The government of Swaziland has expelled all refugees from the country after a dispute with them over their monthly assistance.
Zambia, home to some of Africa’s oldest refugee settlements, is working on a groundbreaking plan to integrate some refugees into local communities and grant them greater freedom of movement.
Zambia’s government will not allow the World Food Programme (WFP) to feed over 130 000 refugees in the country with genetically modified food.
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/ 14 November 2001
MARTIN PARRY, Quetta, Pakistan | Wednesday THE Taliban are slaughtering Afghans who try to flee the country, gunning them down in cold blood, refugees who have made it to Pakistan claim. On the outskirts of this southwestern Pakistan town, near the Afghan border, thousands of ”invisible” refugees exist in abject poverty. They have fled because […]
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/ 19 October 2001
Khadija Magardie A newly released study on attitudes towards foreigners, particularly refugees, shows that public awareness on the human rights of asylum-seekers has still to take root on South African soil. Earlier this year, the World Conference against Racism attempted to raise the issue of xenophobia, or anti-foreigner sentiment in many parts of the world, […]
THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Saturday that 400 Angolan refugees had been repatriated from the neighbouring Republic of Congo. ”They arrived on Friday in Cabinda province where they are restarting their lives,” Julie Stewart, an external relations officer with the UNHCR, said from Cabinda. Oil-rich Cabinda is a coastal sliver of […]
SUDAN had the second-largest number of refugees in Africa, after Burundi, at the start of 2001, and attempts to find solutions to this and other problems had borne limited fruit, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) reported on Tuesday. The civil war in Sudan had shown few signs of abating and continued to […]
The Ultimate Safari is a short story by Nadine Gordimer, describing the trek of a Mozambican family through the Kruger Park to get to South Africa.
A REBEL leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday said more than 100_000 refugees from the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) were in urgent need of help. “More than 100_000 Central Africans” have crossed the Oubangui river into areas in northeast DRC controlled by the Congolese Liberation Front (FLC), said the rebel […]
A REBEL leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday said more than 100,000 refugees from the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) were in urgent need of help. “More than 100,000 Central Africans” have crossed the Oubangui river into areas in northeast DRC controlled by the Congolese Liberation Front (FLC), said the rebel […]