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Families trucked off to prison in Malawi crackdown on expatriates
Refugees ‘hounded like dogs’ by the police and army despite protests by the United Nations Refugee Agency and civil society
Home affairs department fails to serve citizens and non-nationals
The dysfunctional department is a hindrance to an inclusive and progressive asylum seeker and refugee regime in South Africa
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World Refugee Day: A call for inclusion as 82-million people are displaced
More than 11-million people were forced to flee their countries in 2020
‘Any trigger can lead to suicide’
For South Sudanese refugees, fleeing war and sexual violence is only the beginning of their struggles, writes Amanda Sperber from northern Uganda. This story was produced in…
Motsoaledi report card is ‘way off the mark’
The department of home affairs’ media manager writes a response to the M&G’s report card on his boss
Record 70.8 million people displaced at end of 2018: UN
At the end of 2017, by comparison, 68.5 million people were counted as being forcibly displaced by violence or persecution
UN asks Australia to consider Saudi teen for ‘refugee resettlement’
Thailand initially said it would deport her at the request of Saudi embassy officials, barring her from travelling on to Australia
Resource scarcity, climate change linked to conflict and displacement
Resource scarcity is dangerous in politically unstable states, where climate change has already been linked to violent conflict and communal upheaval
Refugees saved after boat flips in the Mediterranean
Refugees on a boat that set sail from Libya were photographed falling into the Mediterranean.
Thousands of Sudanese to return from Ethiopia in 2008
Close to 30 000 Southern Sudanese who fled the country’s 21-year north-south war are to return home from camps in neighbouring Ethiopia during 2008 as part of an agreement…