Talk to people to understand why they fled their home county and the difficulties they face in South Africa
Government forges ahead with corporate-sponsored climate deals without relevant input
In World War I, millions of people fled Germany and millions fled when Germany occupied their countries; in Ukraine, it’s estimated four million will flee; and around the world there are 30 million refugees
Many young people in Mpumalanga – most of them descendants of Mozambicans who fled the civil war – are in limbo because they don’t have identity documents and birth certificates
The home affairs department’s end game might just be the beginning. A hardcore few are still in one camp and about 600 remain in the second shelter
Many people at the Wingfield site have left to settle locally or be repatriated, but about 360 still insist they want to be resettled in a third country
Former Khayelitsha resident Bulelani Mfaco is leading a campaign for the protection of refugee rights in that country
Some refugee reception offices in South Africa have stopped accepting new asylum applications as the government enforces stricter measures to deal with the Covid-19 crisis
Asylum seekers will leave the Cape Town church, but most do not have documents, a situation they blame on the home affairs department
Migrant leader accused of military-style
tactics to influence people and push authorities for a chance to leave South Africa
Gender-based violence and xenophobia need to be addressed through approaches that take account of people’s emotions and trauma
The migrants are calling on the United Nations to help them be repatriated to other countries, including Canada and Australia
An increasing number of refugees are being tortured and raped in Libya, a new study has found.
So far, an estimated 12 300 people have made the perilous journey to safety on foot, fleeing deepening conflict in Kasai province
More than 100 000 refugees arrived in in Uganda 2015 alone, making the country the third-largest refugee-hosting country in Africa.
The annual global trends report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) paints a very bleak picture.
International monitors say conflicts, including the uprisings in the Arab world, last year forced 3.5-million people to flee within their country.
Congolese deportees claim the South African government is in cahoots with the DRC’s President Kabila, who they say is stifling dissent using torture.
The UN’s refugee agency says about 3 000 people from the DRC have been displaced amid renewed rebel attacks since the beginning of this year.
Afghanistan will open an embassy in Greece to help thousands of Afghan asylum seekers stranded while seeking a better life in Europe.
Al-Shabaab rebels have banned some UN and international aid agencies from working in Somalia, seizing and looting some of their offices.
Laurent Gbagbo will not step down despite being besieged and trapped in a bunker under his Abidjan residence, one of his advisors said on Friday.
Uganda forcibly returned 1 700 Rwandan asylum-seekers and refugees, the United Nations said on Friday.
Libya has ordered the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, to close its operations there, a UN spokesperson said on Tuesday.
At least 60 civilians were killed over the last two weeks as heavy fighting engulfed the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the UN said on Friday.
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/ 2 February 2010
Nearly 260 civilians were killed in clashes between government troops and rebel militia in central Somalia last month, the UN said on Tuesday.
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/ 1 December 2009
More than 44 000 people have fled ethnic violence in the western DRC to seek refuge in the Republic of Congo, aid workers said on Monday.
More than 20 000 people have fled fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu over the past two weeks, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.
The registration of Zimbabwean refugees living at the Central Methodist Church has been completed, Gauteng local government said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 January 2009
Rebels have killed 567 people and displaced 115 000 in northeast DRC’s Oriental province since September, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.
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/ 14 October 2008
The United Nations refugee agency will investigate the way its South African office responded to deadly xenophobic violence in May.
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/ 11 October 2008
About 100 people were feared drowned off the coast of Yemen after they were forced to swim ashore by smugglers, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.