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Without a boat: Seydou Sarr (left) and Moustapha Fall in a scene from
Io Capitano, which is on at the European Film Festival.

Io Capitano is a cinematic journey of hope and heroism

The brilliant Io Capitano, which opens the 11th European Film Festival, puts a human face on migration issues

Supporters of incumbent President Paul Kagame carry a large photograph of him during the campaign’s closing rally in Kigali, on August 2, 2017. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Human rights report details onslaught on Rwandan dissidents

It says the international community has failed to recognise and stem the persecution of Rwandan refugees and critics of the Kagame regime

Forced out: Families are shuttled from Maula Prison to Dzaleka. Photo: Jack McBrams

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

Hundreds of people, originally from Rwanda, DR Congo, Burundi, and Bangladesh, sleeping in a corridor close to the offices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on October 8, 2019, in Cape Town. – These people are asking the UNHCR to intervene on their behalf as they say they don’t feel safe in South Africa any more, due to high levels of crime as well as xenophobia, and want help in getting home, or to another country. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP) (Photo by RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

Congolese refugees living in South Africa voluntarily repatriated

Although some refugees choose to leave, others refuse to leave if not on their own conditions

RPIN, UKRAINE — MARCH 4, 2022: Civilians, mostly women and children rush to board any train car that still has any room on it, as the sounds of battle Ð gunfire and bombing Ð fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces draw closer to the city of Irpin, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Refugees: The fallout of all wars

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…

In limbo: Vusi and his twin, Mandla, flanked by their mother Alina Ndlovu, have been to three home affairs department offices to try to get documentation stating that they were born in South Africa. They and other young people have written to the Human Rights Commission for help. Photos: Tumelo Dibakwane

Born in but stateless in South Africa

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

A man stands in front of his destroyed house in the village of Bisober in Ethiopia’s Tigray region (Photo: Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images)

UN denies Sudan refugee camps used as bolthole for Tigray rebels

Last month Sudan recalled its ambassador to Ethiopia, saying Addis Ababa had spurned its efforts to broker a ceasefire in the Tigray conflict.

“It builds up over time, and you don’t talk about it, you just shut people out, because everyone looks at you being a cop, like [you are supposed] to be superhuman, you are not supposed to show any sign of weaknesses.” (Oliver Petrie/Getty Images)

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

Amnesty International has released a report that implicates Al-Shabaab, the military and mercenaries in atrocities in Cabo Delgado province. (Photo by ADRIEN BARBIER / AFP)

The SADC will regret its approach to Mozambique’s insurgence

The SADC has been lackadaisical in its response to the insurgency in Mozambique and in so doing, is putting several other southern African countries at risk

Double-registration has effectively rendered stateless tens of thousands of Kenyan citizens who are ethnically Somali

‘In Kenya, you cannot go anywhere without an ID. I don’t have one’

Double-registration has effectively rendered stateless tens of thousands of Kenyan citizens who are ethnically Somali

The Norwegian Refugee Council, headed by Jan Egeland (below), tries to assists the multitudes in camps for people displaced by drought and internal conflicts. (Yonas Tadesse & Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

Rich nations ‘not helping’ refugees

Conflict in Ethiopia has displaced masses of people, but relief efforts are under-funded

As suffering for refugees taking this dangerous route to Europe continues to increase, no clear solution to the problem is in sight. (Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi)

Widespread torture and rape documented in Libya’s refugee camps

An increasing number of refugees are being tortured and raped in Libya, a new study has found.

Dadaab refugee camp (Reuters)

Kenya plans to close world’s biggest refugee camp Dadaab

Kenya has announced that it plans to close Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp, by the end of August

Many stateless people in Africa are forced to live in poverty. (Ricardo Rojas/Reuters)

Africa’s forgotten stateless population

Africa has one of the largest stateless populations in the world, however governments have only recently started to recognise it as a serious problem

A refugee camp on the border with Nigeria. (Shola Lawal)

South Cameroon a ‘big ghost town’

Tens of thousands of English-speaking Cameroonians have fled the country ahead of the presidential vote

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has called on warring factions to “spare civilians” trapped by the fighting. (AFP)

Libya’s militias agree to UN ceasefire in Tripoli

The United Nations has hailed a deal to ‘end all hostilities’ and ‘protect civilians’ after days of deadly clashes in the capital

Nikki Haley’s is the latest resignation in a turbulent White House, where Trump is already on his third national security adviser and second secretary of state before even the midterm elections. (Reuters)

US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council

Ambassador Nikki Haley’s announcement comes a month after the UNHRC voted to probe the killing of Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli security forces

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Kenya hosts first-ever TEDx event at refugee camp

Refugees share stories of resilience and creativity at a rare web-streaming event in Kakuma camp in northwest Kenya

Human trade: Sudan’s eastern border town of Kassala in front of the Taka Mountains. Security forces are supposed to have intensified their patrols along the border with Eritrea in a bid to curb migrant smuggling

Sudan’s state-supported smugglers

The Sudanese government has received money from the EU to stem the flow of migrants, but officials are colluding with smugglers and human traffickers

‘We will die here’: Azariah Shihlangu and his wife Paulina Ritshuri

Mozambican war victims embrace their new home in Limpopo

The land is not just the dusty earth on which we stand. It is an affirmation of self. It is the urgent aspiration for dignity and agency.