Alex Duval Smith in Casamance A quarter of a million West Africans fleeing on foot from fighting in Guinea-Bissau without food or water are heading north into another civil war where they face landmines, hostile Senegalese troops and swamps. As this human emergency advances on Casamance – the region of Senegal where a 16-year independence […]
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/ 8 September 1997
MONDAY, 11.00AM KENYA’S President Daniel Arap Moi has renewed his attacks on foreigners and refugees, calling on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to move out all Somali refugees in Kenya. “We are being treated like fools by being so generous in every thing”, the president told a fund raising meeting in aid […]
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/ 5 September 1997
FRIDAY, 12.30PM A UN transit camp for refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo was raided before dawn on Thursday by government soldiers who herded almost all the several hundred refugees to the nearby airport and flew them to Rwanda. The UN High Commisson for Refugees described the incident as: “The soldiers surrounded the UNHCR […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM ARMED raiders attacked 4 000 displaced Kenyans in a church compound overnight, killing at least three of them and sending the others fleeing. The latest attack brings the confirmed death toll in violence on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast to 43 since August 13. Many of the inland tribespeople who had sought sanctuary in […]
SEXUAL VIOLENCE GUIDELINES NEW guidelines are being drawn up for South African state officials who handle cases of sexual violence against women and children. The Justice department announced the guidelines on Friday, and said they are to protect the fundamental rights of all women and childen to safety, security and protection. Officials who contravene the […]
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/ 13 December 1996
Until now, Home Affairs has not had to explain its decisions to refugees. It now must do so, writes Marion Edmunds FOUR Angolan refugees and the Human Rights Commission (HRC)have won a decisive legal victory over the Department of Home Affairs, forcing officials to explain why they accept some refugees as legitimate asylum-seekers, and reject […]
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/ 29 November 1996
The refugees may be going, but the suffering continues. Chris McGreal reports from Mugunga IT might be that in the distant future someone will stumble upon Mugunga and wonder if they aren’t standing in the midst of some lost civilisation. Only a maze of walls laboriously cleaved from the harsh carpet of volcanic rock will […]
Annie Mapoma FOR some refugees, South Africa is not the land of milk and honey. “We would rather go back and die in our country than stay here and suffer,” said two Rwandans being counselled this week by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Johannesburg. Alexis Nzigimana (23) and Just Matata (22) are […]
The Mail & Guardian’s Stefaans Brummer visits the refugee camps along with the South African mercy mission A human tide, all carrying a load of precious firewood BENACO and its satellite refugee camps cover the fertile hills of Ngara in western Tanzania, a few hours’ walk from the Rwandan border. About 250 000 Rwandans, many […]