• The determination of refugee status was outsourced to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). (wikipedia.org)
  • Later, a new law was established in which the UNHCR would process asylum applications and send a recommendation to the Israeli National Status Granting Body, which was tasked with deciding refugee status. (wikipedia.org)
  • During the spring of 2018, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached a deal with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to relocate many refugees into western nations over a period of five years. (wikipedia.org)
  • GADO BADZERE, Cameroon, Dec 31 (UNHCR) - Hawas was driven into exile from the Central African Republic (CAR) by violence. (unhcr.org)
  • Refugees were ready to vote, they got mobilized very early in the morning to be able to vote" said Fode Baba Conde, a Field Coordinator for the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, in Cameroon. (unhcr.org)
  • ADRA Ghana is an implementing partner for the UNHCR, and is responsible for implementing the livelihood support programs for Ivorian refugees in three camps. (adra.org)
  • ADRA worked in partnership with the UNHCR, World Food Program, and government agencies to distribute basic humanitarian supplies to the refugees. (adra.org)
  • Unable to deliver on his promise to quickly expel all the Africans, Netanyahu grudgingly agreed to a plan brokered by the UN refugee agency UNHCR which, if carried out, would have seen thousands of the refugees resettled in Western nations in the coming years. (electronicintifada.net)
  • The UNHCR, protective of the Geneva convention, became involved in the later drafts, so the African convention did not emerge in isolation but close cooperation with an international organization that saw itself as the custodian of the Geneva Convention and its protocol. (africasacountry.com)
  • The UN refugee agency UNHCR recorded a total of 30 million Africans in need on the continent in 2018. (dw.com)
  • Refugees Operational Data Portal by UNHCR is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International License . (unhcr.org)
  • But 5,366 people have also asked for asylum, according to the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR. (allafrica.com)
  • Note: Refugee data are from the UNHCR statistical population online dataset, accessed in September 2014. (worldbank.org)
  • At Shagarab I camp, Guterres met refugee women who had benefited from a micro-credit scheme funded by UNHCR. (dehai.org)
  • At least 100 million people around the world have been displaced due to persecution, conflict, and violence, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). (sap.com)
  • Wharton's Katherine Klein talks to Julienne Oyler, co-founder and CEO of the African Entrepreneur Collective, which helps micro, small, and medium businesses across East Africa. (upenn.edu)
  • We are an organization that supports micro, small, and medium enterprises across East Africa. (upenn.edu)
  • The Somali refugee crisis reaches a crescendo in East Africa. (americamagazine.org)
  • Areas with high endemicity are most common in West and Central Africa and in geographically discrete areas of East Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • SCALING: To begin regionally networking in East Africa Great Lakes Region, and expand further across Africa only when that has been established. (refugeehighway.net)
  • One of the first will be a directory of refugee stakeholders in East Africa. (refugeehighway.net)
  • ABIDJAN, Mar 19 2014 (IPS) - In West Africa, the Malian and Ivorian political crises have resulted in the biggest number of refugees in the region. (ipsnews.net)
  • But brewing insecurity could mean that they will be unable to return home any time soon as armed groups remain a threat to West Africa. (ipsnews.net)
  • In Mali, even though the United Nations mission is providing military support, the Movement for Unity Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA) Islamists remain a threat and there have been a number of bomb explosions. (ipsnews.net)
  • In the last two years, the problem seems to be spreading to West Africa: While in 2017 Mali still had comparatively few IDPs (38,000), one year later the figure had almost tripled. (dw.com)
  • The Africa regional chapter facilitates and supports the formation of national and regional teams (i.e. in Eastern and Horn of Africa, Central, Southern and West Africa sub-regions), to address issues and challenges affecting refugees and the internally displaced communities due to the effects of conflicts and other natural and human-made disasters prone in Africa (and globally). (refugeehighway.net)
  • But with growing unrest in North and West Africa, G4S is expected to make a speedy recovery. (intrepidreport.com)
  • ADRA is involved in several refugee projects in Rwanda, including working in a refugee camp for Burundian refugees, providing psychosocial and child protection services to children and some families who have been identified as vulnerable. (adra.org)
  • The GCF was launched in 2021 by the Mayors Migration Council with investments from the Open Society Foundations, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and the Robert Bosch Stiftung, in partnership with C40 Cities, the UN Human Settlements Programme, the UN Migration Agency, the UN Refugee Agency, and United Cities and Local Governments, which provide technical support to city grantees. (c40.org)
  • The study was carried out in the city of eThekwini (Durban) in South Africa in 2021 and 2022. (bvsalud.org)
  • The people of Lampedusa, the southern-most island in Italy and the first port of call for migrants fleeing the strife in North Africa, have been preparing themselves for potential mass arrivals. (voanews.com)
  • Soon, they say, their island will again be inundated with migrants fleeing the political turmoil in North Africa. (voanews.com)
  • Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia have calculated that the Middle East and North Africa could become so hot that human habitability is compromised. (mpg.de)
  • The temperature during summer in the already very hot Middle East and North Africa will increase more than two times faster compared to the average global warming. (mpg.de)
  • Plagued by heat and dust: Desert dust storms such as here in Kuwait could occur more often in the Middle East and North Africa as a result of climate change. (mpg.de)
  • More than 500 million people live in the Middle East and North Africa - a region which is very hot in summer and where climate change is already evident. (mpg.de)
  • In future, the climate in large parts of the Middle East and North Africa could change in such a manner that the very existence of its inhabitants is in jeopardy," says Jos Lelieveld, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Professor at the Cyprus Institute. (mpg.de)
  • Lelieveld and his colleagues have investigated how temperatures will develop in the Middle East and North Africa over the course of the 21st century. (mpg.de)
  • Unbearably hot: In the Middle East and North Africa, the average temperature in winter will rise by around 2.5 degrees Celsius (left) by the middle of the century, and in summer by around five degrees Celsius (right) if global greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase according to the business-as-usual scenario (RCP8,5). (mpg.de)
  • In addition, the duration of heat waves in North Africa and the Middle East will prolong dramatically. (mpg.de)
  • If mankind continues to release carbon dioxide as it does now, people living in the Middle East and North Africa will have to expect about 200 unusually hot days, according to the model projections," says Panos Hadjinicolaou, Associate Professor at the Cyprus Institute and climate change expert. (mpg.de)
  • Another way SAP is helping refugees is through Digital Skills for Today , an initiative supporting young people in the Middle East and North Africa. (sap.com)
  • While the country recovers from its post-electoral crisis that resulted in over 3,000 deaths between 2010 to 2011, refugees are slow to return from Ghana, Togo and Liberia. (ipsnews.net)
  • Around two million refugees in 10 African countries are facing the consequences of cuts in food assistance, leading to public health crisis, the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement Monday. (apa.az)
  • It has been one of the terrible paradoxes of the modern global refugee crisis: Often those countries least capable of responding to the complex needs of refugees are the ones forced to shoulder the greatest burden in caring for them. (americamagazine.org)
  • South Sudan and Abyei region of Sudan, Sahel Region, Horn Africa faced with all forms of humanitarian crisis). (refugeehighway.net)
  • It seems to us that these three lessons should put into perspective some of the concerns heralded around the current refugee crisis in the European Union . (worldbank.org)
  • Refugees are often perceived as an economic "burden", as the current debate on the European refugee crisis illustrates. (repec.org)
  • Today, on the sidelines of the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees (GCF) announced a new commitment from the IKEA Foundation of $1.2 million to provide direct financial and technical support to six African cities addressing the needs of migrants and displaced people affected by the climate crisis. (c40.org)
  • Casablanca, Morocco , will establish its first Souk of African Solidarity, providing a space for migrants and asylum seekers impacted by the climate crisis to start green businesses in the heart of the city. (c40.org)
  • We call on more donors to join the Global Cities Fund for Migrants and Refugees to keep making a tangible difference in the lives of people affected by the climate crisis, while keeping the world on track to meet global commitments. (c40.org)
  • Studies exploring the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of refugee women have focused primarily on first generation refugees in humanitarian and crisis settings. (bvsalud.org)
  • There has been insecurity in the Central Africa Republic since the end of 2012.The crisis began in December 2012 and progressively took over the entire country in March 2013. (cdc.gov)
  • With hindsight, the refugee crisis of 2015 could very well emerge as one of our most fruitful cultural and economic processes of all time", writes Dick Harrison, Professor of History. (lu.se)
  • A group of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been detained in Zimbabwe after they were caught while heading to Botswana following their escape from the country's main refugee camp. (co.ke)
  • Kinshasa accused Rwanda of using refugees for political purposes on Wednesday, after its neighbour said it would no longer take in people fleeing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (co.ke)
  • When I first came to Africa and saw a bunch of entrepreneurs working in communities here, the first thing that came to my mind is that whether you're in Silicon Valley, whether you're in Kigali, or whether you're in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, entrepreneurs around the world are more alike than different. (upenn.edu)
  • Every year many of the about 200,000 refugees from dozens of countries across the continent in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya turn out to celebrate World Refugee Day on June 20. (africasacountry.com)
  • The term, non-Jewish African refugees, primarily refers to the Sudanese and Eritrean refugee population migrating to Israel through the Sinai Desert. (wikipedia.org)
  • This was the status of all Sudanese refugees in Israel since both countries have no diplomatic relations. (wikipedia.org)
  • The rapid increase in the number of Eritrean and Sudanese immigrants beginning in 2006 changed the Israeli policy towards refugees from these two countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, in 2007, the Israeli government was still issuing three-month renewable "conditional release" visas, which allowed Eritrean and Sudanese refugees to work. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most of the Sudanese and Eritrean refugees fell into the latter category, a categorization that significantly delays registration as refugees. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fence has significantly decreased the influx of Sudanese and Eritrean refugees into Israel. (wikipedia.org)
  • By 2015, the Israeli government began giving Sudanese and Eritrean refugees a choice to either return to their home countries, move to another state, or be imprisoned. (wikipedia.org)
  • Reports emanating from the region suggest that Sudanese troops have been dispatched to the Ethiopian border ostensibly to interdict the flow of refugees into the economically burdened country. (csmonitor.com)
  • According to some sources familiar with the situation in Sudan, the Sudanese Cabinet has been split over what to do about additional refugees flowing into the region. (csmonitor.com)
  • There are an estimated 1.5 million South Sudanese refugees, and 1.9 million people are displaced within South Sudan. (adra.org)
  • This article explores how the ties between resettled Sudanese refugees and those who remain in Africa shape the lives of people in both settings. (fmreview.org)
  • 20,000 Sudanese refugees have been resettled in the US since the early 1990s when sizable numbers first started arriving. (fmreview.org)
  • My findings are based on ethnographic in-person research and interviews since the mid-1990s with several hundred Sudanese refugees living in the US. (fmreview.org)
  • Staying in contact is very important to Sudanese refugees. (fmreview.org)
  • CAIRO (Reuters) - The 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee finally managed to escape after three months as a prisoner in a Cairo apartment where she was repeatedly gang raped, only to realize that she had become pregnant by one of her attackers. (egyptindependent.com)
  • IOM teams assessing the needs of Sudanese refugees on the Chad-Sudan border. (allafrica.com)
  • Galabat, the main Sudanese border town on the escape route to Ethiopia, is clogged with would-be refugees. (allafrica.com)
  • Other refugees interviewed in Metema described similar hounding, with Sudanese officials asking them "why are you leaving us behind? (allafrica.com)
  • Threatened by the fighting between the Sudanese army and RSF, some had left the string of refugee camps in eastern Sudan for Metema. (allafrica.com)
  • Acknowledging the strain that generations of hospitality has put on the Sudanese people, he announced plans to launch an initiative 'aimed at helping long-staying refugees become more self-reliant through livelihood projects while also supporting the local community through development projects. (dehai.org)
  • The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa, bordered by Chad in the north, Sudan in the northeast, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south and Cameroon in the west. (cdc.gov)
  • by combined forces led by NATO allied forces.Libya used to be a beehive of black African immigrants with majority working and earning good money from the oil rich country. (modernghana.com)
  • During his regime, He not only allowed immigrants but equally encouraged black Africans immigrants from other African countries to come and work in Libya unlike what is known in other oil rich gulf states. (modernghana.com)
  • Nonetheless, it wouldn't be an overstatement to say since the fall of that regime Africa continent has suffered much lost, In terms of displaced immigrants to economic hardship and a dying prospect of united African perspective. (modernghana.com)
  • But the vehemence with which Schily is publicising it, and the fact that the German government has been at the forefront in Europe of attacks against refugees and immigrants for more than a decade, could herald a direct assault on the very right to asylum in Europe. (wsws.org)
  • Zimbabwe is a major transit route for African immigrants seeking refuge in more economically stable countries like South Africa and Botswana. (co.ke)
  • Israeli leaders say their tough approach might actually save refugee lives in the end, as they may not even attempt to make the trip - during which immigrants often succumb to illness or physical injury. (vdare.com)
  • Immigrants from Africa started to enter Israel a decade ago, and government officials ultimately built a wall to stem the flow across their borders. (vdare.com)
  • At this week's African Union Summit, we are calling on the AU to help South Africa demonstrate its leadership in addressing xenophobia and protecting the rights of all, including refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers. (oxfam.org)
  • A devastating new drought and an escalation of the fighting in Ethiopia are causing a fresh torrent of refugees into neighboring Sudan. (csmonitor.com)
  • According to the Agency for International Development, Ethiopia was the highest-scoring country in Africa in terms of both the level and rate of increase in military imports and spending in the year 1979, the most recent year for which complete global statistics are available. (csmonitor.com)
  • Meanwhile refugees who had been flowing out of Gondar Province in Ethiopia for the past two years at the rate of 15 a day are now reported to be crossing into Sudan at the rate of 200 a day, more than a 10-fold increase. (csmonitor.com)
  • Aside from possible new friction with Sudan on the refugee issue, Ethiopia has other preoccupations. (csmonitor.com)
  • Ethiopia ranks fifth in terms of countries hosting the most refugees globally and is number one in Africa, hosting more than 800,000 refugees. (adra.org)
  • With the support of ADRA Japan, ADRA Ethiopia has provided water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) assistance to over 250,000 refugees since 2014. (adra.org)
  • Oyler is the co-founder and CEO of the African Entrepreneur Collective , which helps entrepreneurs, especially refugee entrepreneurs, in Rwanda, Kenya, and Ethiopia to grow, create jobs, and improve livelihoods. (upenn.edu)
  • the eldest living son was selected to undertake a perilous journey from the refugee camp in Ethiopia to a camp in Kenya that was known to be offering resettlement slots. (fmreview.org)
  • In 2017, the congregation found a new outlet for this passion when five men from Africa began attending the church. (nazarene.org)
  • Although global malaria incidence has declined over the past 10 years, an estimated 219 million new cases of malaria occurred worldwide in 2017, with 92% of them in Africa [ 4 ]. (cdc.gov)
  • We saw the video, but we thought maybe it wasn't true, maybe it was just a hoax," Eritrean refugee Aman Beyene, who lives in an Israeli detention camp, said. (vdare.com)
  • Just like the IRC has done with Syrian refugees, the organization is attempting to create an environment in Turlock for Eritrean refugees. (turlockjournal.com)
  • The refugees' case worker, who is also an Eritrean native, has helped translate some, but there are still some gaps in the two parties' communication. (turlockjournal.com)
  • It's going well,' said the Eritrean refugee, who was born and bred in the camp. (dehai.org)
  • A Congolese refugee family walks at the Busunga border in Uganda. (co.ke)
  • Zimbabwean authorities say they've captured more than 100 Congolese refugees who had escaped from a camp. (co.ke)
  • If I had a better option, I would not be living in South Africa," said a Congolese refugee who did not give his name but works as a valet at a mall in Johannesburg. (turkishpress.com)
  • Congolese refugee Remmy Kasongo works at his sewing machine at the Refugee Makers Project in Lancaster, sewing caftans he calls bubus, made of indigo dyed fabrics. (whyy.org)
  • What is disturbing official sources in Washington and relief agencies in the area is that the Sudan, which has the reputation of being the most hospitable nation in Africa toward refugees, is apparently deciding that enough is enough. (csmonitor.com)
  • Sudan - which has already housed 625,000 African refugees and is one of the world's most refugee-jammed countries - is also one of the world's poorest countries and is virtually bankrupt. (csmonitor.com)
  • The United States Committee for Refugees, in urging the Senate Subcomittee on African Affairs to look into the the matter, last week reported as much as a 700 percent increase in the last month or so in the number of Tigreans crossing into Sudan. (csmonitor.com)
  • Chad has been welcoming refugees from Sudan, Nigeria and the Central African Republic (CAR) for a decade. (adra.org)
  • More than half of these refugees are originally from Somalia and South Sudan. (adra.org)
  • This decision, however, was a foregone conclusion after the Italian interior minister, Giuseppe Pisanu, said that the refugees came from Nigeria and Ghana and not from Sudan, as was originally claimed, and consequently their applications would be unconditionally rejected. (wsws.org)
  • The migrants who perished in August were mostly from conflict-ridden areas in Africa and the Middle East, including Egypt, Libya, Palestine, Sudan and Syria. (ibtimes.com)
  • One noteworthy facet of their adaptation to life in the US is the importance of maintaining close ties with family and friends in Sudan, in other African countries and, to a more limited extent, around the world. (fmreview.org)
  • Nearly 90% of the asylum seekers are Eritreans - half of them previously registered as refugees in Sudan. (allafrica.com)
  • Guterres ended a visit to Sudan this week by hailing efforts towards lasting solutions for thousands of long-staying refugees in eastern Sudan, while raising concerns about the trafficking of vulnerable people in the region, including asylum-seekers. (dehai.org)
  • Our refugee programme in Sudan is one of the oldest in Africa, at 45 years. (dehai.org)
  • Sudan to meet the country's largest concentration of refugees, numbering more than 86,000. (dehai.org)
  • Refugees International is raising the alarm and engaging CAR's civil society leaders in meaningful dialogue on ending the country's humanitarian suffering. (refugeesinternational.org)
  • A global human rights group has urged Tunisia to stop its expulsion of sub-Saharan African refugees and migrants and for humanitarian services to be provided to those languishing at the North African country's border with Libya. (aljazeera.com)
  • In a recent discussion with Justin van Fleet, executive director of Global Business Coalition for Education and president at Theirworld , he outlined the impact of the Ukraine war on education and said that refugees make us think about the urgent need for humanitarian relief: food, water, shelter, and clothing. (sap.com)
  • Not only is it unconscionable to abuse people and abandon them in the desert, but collective expulsions violate international law," said Lauren Seibert, refugee and migrant rights researcher at HRW. (aljazeera.com)
  • She is one of a growing number of African migrant and refugee women in the Egyptian capital who report abuse, in what rights groups say has become an epidemic of sexual violence that has worsened in recent months. (egyptindependent.com)
  • T06411 is a North African migrant boat, named after the official code given to it by Italian customs when it was seized close to Lampedusa in 2012, with 36 migrants on board. (refugeeweek.org.uk)
  • Nairobi, Kenya , will provide migrant, refugee, and receiving communities with green jobs and partner with them to make the city's waterways and public spaces greener and safer for everyone. (c40.org)
  • In this sense, it proposes some reflections on the forms of institutionalization that directly impact on the relations of women from African countries integrated as refugees in Brazilian society, based on semi-structured interviews with two migrant women. (bvsalud.org)
  • Officials have not provided credible evidence linking Somali refugees to any terrorist attacks in Kenya," Human Rights Watch officials said in a recent statement. (americamagazine.org)
  • now new refugees, who continue to enter Kenya each day from neighboring states, are not being officially registered. (americamagazine.org)
  • Focusing mainly on Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, we reviewed the recent literature to draw a few lessons in a new working paper , prepared as background to the Poverty in a Rising Africa report . (worldbank.org)
  • This policy ensured that refugees were protected from deportation to their countries of origin, but they could not legally work in Israel. (wikipedia.org)
  • Later that same year, an emergency plan was set in motion to deport refugees to their home countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Among the migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees interviewed, nine had returned to their countries on emergency repatriation flights in March, while eight remained in Tunis, the Tunisian capital, or Sfax, a port city southeast of Tunis. (hrw.org)
  • So far there has been allot of speculation as to what the authorities in Hamburg intend doing, some are of the opinion they are not happy given the fact and revelation that Italian authorities granted the refugees resident permits, induced them with €500 each and asked them to travel to other European countries hence their financial and economic hardship. (modernghana.com)
  • Facts is, resident permit issued in one EU countries can only be allowed a 3 month stay in another EU country but cannot be allowed a working permit according to the EU laws which recognises refugee point of entry as a place to settle first,Unless where EU citizenship applies. (modernghana.com)
  • Schily adopted the idea of the British government to prevent refugee applicants from entering the EU by establishing a "cordon sanitaire" around the EU countries, where internment camps would be built close to the routes taken by refugees. (wsws.org)
  • Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday that his country "cannot keep hosting refugees" -- stoking already high tensions between the two countries. (co.ke)
  • The former anti-apartheid activist whose ruling African National Congress party gained support from various African countries in their fight against apartheid immediately dispatched envoys across the continent to apologize. (turkishpress.com)
  • But Netanyahu's plans for expedited deportation were quashed after protests by refugee rights activists in Israel and abroad shamed those countries, now known to be Rwanda and Uganda , into disclaiming the scheme. (electronicintifada.net)
  • But Germany and Italy, two of the countries cited by Netanyahu as committed to take in asylum seekers from Israel, quickly denied having ever agreed to accept refugees under the scheme. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Only a few thousand refugees, anticipating the end of Kenyan patience with the camps, have so far voluntarily returned to their home countries. (americamagazine.org)
  • At the Tunisian-Libyan border, people from African countries told Al Jazeera they were being forced to drink seawater to survive, while Libyan border guards were refusing to let them in. (aljazeera.com)
  • There are currently many IDPs, especially in East African countries. (dw.com)
  • Over the course of several months, the students have thrived in the PHS environment that's also home to refugees from other countries, like Syria. (turlockjournal.com)
  • While the Turlock community has proven to be a welcoming home for refugees from various countries, Greene believes more can be done to ensure students feel welcome on the city's high school campuses. (turlockjournal.com)
  • These realities contrast sharply with popular images of African refugees that depict people leaving 'stone-age' societies en route to Western countries. (fmreview.org)
  • While such an attention is welcomed, we do not hear much about the millions of refugees hosted in developing countries. (worldbank.org)
  • Developing countries host about 85% of the total number of refugees in the world. (worldbank.org)
  • Although Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) also hosts refugees from other regions, the number of refugees originating from SSA follows closely those hosted in the region, suggesting that most SSA refugees remain in countries within the region (Figure 1). (worldbank.org)
  • For example, evidence exists that even a large influx of labor via refugees in developed countries does not lead to downward pressures on wages. (worldbank.org)
  • Even in recent times, for most EU Member States their interest in African countries was mainly commercial. (ecre.org)
  • Since then, the government has been hosting refugees from many countries generously,' Guterres told journalists in Khartoum on Thursday. (dehai.org)
  • The World Bank estimates that the climate breakdown could push 86 million Africans to migrate within their own countries by 2050 , all within one of the world's fastest urbanising regions. (c40.org)
  • Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February has emphasized the plight of refugees, many of whom face closed borders, discrimination, and inhumane treatment when they attempt to flee their home countries. (sap.com)
  • In 2019, hundreds of Nigerian nationals were evacuated from South Africa after their homes and businesses were looted or destroyed by rioters. (turkishpress.com)
  • A female refugee speaks about violent sexual assault in Cairo, Egypt, October 16, 2019. (egyptindependent.com)
  • The aim is to empower refugees and asylum seekers in the camps to increase or diversify their sources of income, and improve their livelihood assets through productive economic activities. (adra.org)
  • Schily is pushing for the establishment of internment camps in Africa for refugees from that continent, meaning they would not be allowed to enter European Union (EU) territory until their applications had been accepted. (wsws.org)
  • At that time the EU placed refugees in camps in Albania, because EU states refused to allow them within their own borders. (wsws.org)
  • Schily alleges that no asylum seekers who made it to Europe would be deported to the proposed camps in Africa. (wsws.org)
  • Such camps would not deter those seeking to make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea, and it is precisely for refugees who succeeded in reaching Europe that the camps would be set up. (wsws.org)
  • Some diplomats believe this latest threat to close down the camps-the government first raised the prospect of clearing out its refugee sites in 2015-is part of a desperate ploy to squeeze more cash out of donor states. (americamagazine.org)
  • Kenya's bishops have strongly urged the government to reconsider the closure of the refugee camps. (americamagazine.org)
  • With so many civilians fleeing to refugee camps in the capital, Bangui, and the provinces, there is an increased need to strengthen disease surveillance and response. (cdc.gov)
  • They are infecting each other, in fact, on the way, either in refugee camps in Libya on the way or in the very, very crowded conditions they're now living in in Europe. (cdc.gov)
  • In many cases some of these refugees are still--are living in tent camps in parts of Europe or in very, very crowded apartment buildings and dwellings in Europe, so you can see if it's a louseborne disease, that it's very easy if you're sleeping ten or twenty to a room, to transmit it one to the other. (cdc.gov)
  • DW journalists have analysed Africa's refugee crises: Internally displaced people are the most vulnerable. (dw.com)
  • The Ivorian refugees in Liberia are mostly from western Côte d'Ivoire, where some of the world's biggest cacao producers originate. (ipsnews.net)
  • As a response to large scale population movements, the world's first legally binding refugee convention came into being, the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees (referred to as the Geneva Convention). (africasacountry.com)
  • Despite greenhouse gas emissions across the continent representing less than 4 percent of the world's total , African cities are working to address the current and future impacts of climate hazards - whether that's investing in urban adaptation to reduce displacement, safely relocating residents who have no other choice but to move or increasing access to urban infrastructure, services and green jobs for climate migrants. (c40.org)
  • On 16-17 March 2023, the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean is hosting the second high-level meeting on the health needs of migrants and refugees in the Region, in coordination with the Regional Offices for Africa and Europe with support from WHO's Health and Migration Programme. (who.int)
  • Outbursts of violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) have raged on despite the end of the country's of the 2013-2014 civil war. (refugeesinternational.org)
  • According to al-Asmar, Saied has been using African refugees as a "scapegoat" to distract Tunisians from the country's economic downfall. (aljazeera.com)
  • However, as Marina Sharpe and others have shown, the convention struggled to significantly ameliorate the situation of African refugees across the continent as implementation challenges amounted. (africasacountry.com)
  • In 2018, the continent again recorded large numbers of refugees, but the African Union (AU) has not managed to get to grips with the problem. (dw.com)
  • Let it be known from that time till date, Close to 40 thousand Africans immigrant dependent on Libya economy that time had been displaced, misplaced and scattered all over the Europe with attendant consequences of illegal imprisonment, Death in the high sea and misplacement of identities. (modernghana.com)
  • In the next weeks, month or so,All eyes will be on Germany and the rest of EU states to provide a lasting solution to the Libya-African Refugees Crises in Europe which regrettably came about as a result NATO & US unilateral decision to topple Gaddafi´s Government without putting adequate mechanism in place to accommodate the inevitable casualty of regime change. (modernghana.com)
  • More than 2,500 refugees from Africa and the Middle East have drowned or gone missing trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe this year, compared with 700 people in 2013, having boarded unsafe smugglers' boats that sank en route from Libya, a U.N. report estimates. (ibtimes.com)
  • The figure also does not include the 250 African migrants who died Monday off the coast of Libya. (ibtimes.com)
  • The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said it was able to provide some emergency medical assistance to the refugees and migrants. (aljazeera.com)
  • If Algeria's deadly encounter with al-Qaeda was enough to add the north African country to private security companies' emerging African market, Libya must be a private security firm paradise. (intrepidreport.com)
  • The African Union (AU) should call on the South African authorities to provide a long-term security guarantee for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers living in the country, Oxfam, Amnesty International and other 11 civil society organizations said today at a side event during the AU Summit underway in Pretoria and Johannesburg. (oxfam.org)
  • However with the refugees crises looming in Hamburg without an end in site, one tend to ask what actually are the SPD Government waiting before deciding on what to do with these suffering people who deplorably has been living conspicuously outside in the space for few months. (modernghana.com)
  • Mali, a west African country that is suffering multiple crises-military coups, civil war, famine and finally an all-out French-led war-is the likely next victim or opportunity for the deadly trio: Western governments, large corporations and of course, private security firms. (intrepidreport.com)
  • The situation threatens to destabilize the strategic Horn of Africa. (csmonitor.com)
  • And really, what's happened here in the events reported in the journal is that the migrants that are now coming, as we all know in large numbers in Europe, many of them are coming from the horn of Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • So the main hopping-off point to Europe for this groups of migrants from the horn of Africa is to either Sicily or an island called Lampedusa, which is the closest point in Europe to Africa and actually belongs to Italy, so once you make it to Lampedusa, you're within the European Union, and this is the focus of the reports that have appeared in the EID journal. (cdc.gov)
  • There was a case of a riot targeting African refugees in Tel Aviv, although the Israeli government has arrested and subsequently punished the perpetrators. (wikipedia.org)
  • African asylum seekers protest against Israel's deportation plan, South Tel Aviv, 25 February. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Although the deal would have provided political cover for Netanyahu's planned expulsion of the refugees, his political camp vigorously opposed it because it also committed Israel to allowing around 20,000 Africans - mainly women and children - to remain in Israel for another five years and to help them move to parts of the country other than South Tel Aviv, where most of the community is concentrated. (electronicintifada.net)
  • A March poll revealed that in the greater Tel Aviv area, opposition to the expulsion reached 68 percent, and in the long-neglected neighborhoods of South Tel Aviv with the largest African populations, it hit 71 percent. (electronicintifada.net)
  • On 24 February and again on 24 March , some 20,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv to demonstrate in solidarity with the refugee community and demand that the Israeli government cancel plans to deport them, and instead work to improve the lives of all residents of the city's delapidated southern district. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Below, Africans camping in a Tel Aviv park. (vdare.com)
  • TEL AVIV, Israel, May 14 (UPI) - The Israeli government appears to be serious about sending perhaps more than 50,000 African refugees out of the country. (vdare.com)
  • After the collapse of the Tunisian regime in mid-January, more than 6,000 arrived on the tiny southern island, braving the stretch of sea that separates it from the African coastline. (voanews.com)
  • The Tunisian police, military, and national guard including the coast guard have committed serious abuses against Black African migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. (hrw.org)
  • French police have been rounding up refugees, mostly Tunisian, who have moved on to France from Italy. (expatica.com)
  • The document is said to have paved the way for group-rights to claim refugee status, to have first codified the principle of voluntary repatriation, introduced the prohibition of refoulment (expulsion of refugees), and to have framed asylum as a peaceful, non-political act. (africasacountry.com)
  • Due to the precarious legal work status of refugees, they are often discriminated against for job opportunities and have to rely on infrequent jobs to make ends meet. (wikipedia.org)
  • The same can be said of Swedish industrialisation in the 1800s, which was to a large extent the work of foreign entrepreneurs, as well as the expansion of the welfare state between the 1940s and the 1970s, which was sustained not only by native Swedes but also by the hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers and tens of thousands of refugees who found their way here. (lu.se)
  • Pitman High School seniors Jenna Greene and David Moncur have gone above and beyond to help two new classmates who are refugees from the African country of Eritrea settle in to their new home and campus (Photo contributed). (turlockjournal.com)
  • The International Rescue Committee helped the pair arrive in Turlock with their parents and three younger siblings at the beginning of the summer, leaving behind their home country of Eritrea on the coast of the Red Sea in Africa where they had lived in a refugee camp for the past seven years. (turlockjournal.com)
  • Greene and Moncur didn't necessarily volunteer to take their new friends from Eritrea under their wing, but when their art teacher asked the pair to look out for the refugees, the two went above and beyond. (turlockjournal.com)
  • In October, another pair of refugee students from Eritrea arrived at PHS. (turlockjournal.com)
  • A girl playing in a United Nations Refugee Agency camp in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in February 2013. (ipsnews.net)
  • The rapidity with which newly arrived refugees became infected precluded effective use of a cholera vaccine to prevent cases unless vaccination had occurred immediately upon camp arrival. (cambridge.org)
  • ADRA Cameroon are active in Minawao camp, which houses Nigerian refugees displaced by Boko Haram. (adra.org)
  • In 2015 ADRA DRC constructed a recreational center in a refugee camp for Burundian refugee children under five years of age. (adra.org)
  • Those in need of protection and assistance would be immediately sent back for placement in a camp in Africa. (wsws.org)
  • What does a refugee camp look like in Rwanda? (upenn.edu)
  • The 104 refugees were found at a house in the south-western city of Bulawayo after travelling nearly 600 kilometres from Tongogara Refugee Camp near the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border. (co.ke)
  • Our position as a ministry is that they are supposed to be at the Tongogara Refugee Camp," he said. (co.ke)
  • What is clear is that these are refugees from the DRC, who were coming the Tongogora Refugee Camp," he said. (co.ke)
  • For more than 25 years a vast refugee camp has been thrown together on the brush desert near the northeastern Kenyan city of Dadaab. (americamagazine.org)
  • With more than 330,000 mostly Somali refugees now living at this sprawling tent city, Dadaab has become the largest single refugee camp in the world. (americamagazine.org)
  • Dzaleka - Alain and Toussaint excitedly exchanged stories and laughs as they talked about Salama Africa, an organization they helped start that empowers youth in Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi. (jrs.net)
  • Alain and Toussaint are both in their third and final year of the Regis University Diploma in Liberal Studies, an online 45-credit curriculum provided by Jesuit Worldwide Learning and offered online through Jesuit Refugee Service's camp-based Arrupe Learning Center. (jrs.net)
  • They lived in a refugee camp in Zambia called Maheba for 14 years, after fleeing civil war in northern Congo. (whyy.org)
  • Nyamagabe District, Rwanda , will convert waste from a local refugee camp into renewable energy for the area at large, reducing deforestation, creating green jobs, and building social cohesion in the process. (c40.org)
  • My house was completely looted and as a result, my family and I had to stay in a refugee camp for a month. (cdc.gov)
  • Recognizing the fact that there are many causes why thousands of people are desperate and sometimes forced to flee or be uprooted from their homes, and therefore end up as refugees or internally displaced, the Africa RHP chapter analyzes and documents the causes of violent conflicts and effects on fleeing communities, mobilizes and inform partners, explores strategies, develops programs, collaborates and networks with willing relief and development partners locally and globally. (refugeehighway.net)
  • In short, labor substitutes to refugees (e.g. landless or agricultural workers in Tanzania and Uganda) and net food buyers are more likely to suffer from population shocks, at least in the short run. (worldbank.org)
  • Today's city grantees join Accra (Ghana), (Uganda), Beira (Mozambique), Johannesburg (South Africa), and Monrovia (Liberia) in a growing pipeline of 21 city-led projects that will improve the lives of thousands of people around the world, bringing the initiative closer to its goal of funding 22 cities by the end of 2022 . (c40.org)
  • 4. Requests the High Commissioner to continue his co-operation with the Organization of African Unity and to keep it currently informed of these assistance activities. (unhcr.org)
  • The Organization of African Unity (OAU), founded in 1963 as an aspirational pan-African project, started discussions about formulating an African refugee convention just one year after its inception. (africasacountry.com)
  • Israeli citizens living in neighborhoods with large refugee populations have mixed attitudes towards them. (wikipedia.org)
  • Malaria has historically plagued displaced populations in endemic areas, and this situation continues in many refugee settings [ 2 , 3 ]. (cdc.gov)
  • Join UNHCR's global campaign Hope Away from Home calling for renewed solidarity and firm commitments from States to uphold the rights of refugees. (unhcr.org)
  • To understand the coming into being of the 1969 convention, we need to examine the global historic context, and the regionally specific confluence of decolonization struggles and ideas about pan-African solidarity. (africasacountry.com)
  • Central to this were notions of African solidarity, pan-Africanist support for decolonization refugees and advances in responsibility sharing, temporary protection, and voluntary repatriation. (africasacountry.com)
  • Ten refugee operations in Africa have experienced cuts affecting the quantity and quality of food assistance for approximately 2 million refugees, according to the statement of the World Food Programme (WFP), APA reports quoting sputniknews. (apa.az)
  • Ten refugee operations in Africa have experienced cuts affecting the quantity and quality of food assistance for approximately 2 million refugees,' the statement read. (apa.az)
  • This figure includes almost 7.5 million refugees, 630,000 asylum-seekers, one million stateless persons and around half a million returned refugees. (dw.com)
  • Sign up to receive email updates about how your support transforms the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum, and how you can donate and support our work in other ways such as campaigning and events. (refugeecouncil.org.uk)
  • With respect to Black Africans, Tunisia is neither a safe place for disembarkation of third country nationals intercepted or rescued at sea, nor a "safe third country" for transfers of asylum seekers. (hrw.org)
  • Refugees here fled their native Mali in March 2012 when Islamist groups took control of the north of the country. (ipsnews.net)
  • Crushed their hope and aspiration-That was why they scattered all over Europe wandering about and looking for just shelters to put theirs heads, even if worst than where they lived before in the small oil rich Arab "albeit" geographically African country. (modernghana.com)
  • Refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa continue to live in fear of being attacked by xenophobic elements in the country where migrants are often targeted because of their nationality. (turkishpress.com)
  • Sheikh also talked about a lot of prejudice against refugees and migrants in the country. (turkishpress.com)
  • He said Somalis, Ethiopians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, and some West African refugees and migrants are the most targeted foreign nationals in the country. (turkishpress.com)
  • In recent weeks, as refugee rights advocates across the country and around the world stepped up their protests, forcing the African governments conspiring with Israel to deny their involvement, Netanyahu lashed out at the refugees, smearing them as a mortal threat. (electronicintifada.net)
  • If he had not built a high-tech fence on Israel's southern border five years ago, Netanyahu told an audience in March, the number of Africans in the country would be significantly higher, a condition he deemed "much worse" than "severe attacks by Sinai terrorists. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Over 18 million Africans have had to leave their homes but are unable or unwilling to leave their country. (dw.com)
  • Newland points out that returning refugees often become internally displaced persons as soon as they arrive back in their country of origin. (dw.com)
  • This is the moment for the AU to put pressure on the South African government to resolve the persistent occurrence of xenophobia in the country and ensure there is no impunity for the perpetrators. (oxfam.org)
  • The country has a long history of xenophobic attacks against asylum seekers, refugees and migrants. (oxfam.org)
  • Since the beginning of 2015, the country saw a surge in targeted xenophobic violence against refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants and their businesses. (oxfam.org)
  • When refugees lack access to host country health programs, they may be at risk for many diseases, including malaria and other parasitic infections. (cdc.gov)
  • Discussions of refugee issues tend to downplay third country resettlement, because it is the rarest of UNHCR's three durable solutions and is seen to affect such a small minority of refugees. (fmreview.org)
  • Third country resettlement, however, has material and cultural impacts on refugees in Africa beyond the small numbers that actually board the plane and set off for a new land. (fmreview.org)
  • So, there are about 55,000 African asylum-seekers in the country, and almost hardly any of them have any rights to work in the country. (electronicintifada.net)
  • There is a paucity of research exploring the reproductive health of girls and young women who are born to refugee parents in a host country or who have migrated with their parents at a very young age and who have since reached sexual maturity. (bvsalud.org)
  • What happens to a country when the neighbour state is at war and a wave of refugees cross the borders? (lu.se)
  • The South African government has often condemned the attacks on foreigners but at times police is accused of late response to incidents. (turkishpress.com)
  • The South African government has often warned those planning xenophobic attacks of harsh punishments. (turkishpress.com)
  • Locals have complained about the refugees' behaviour while the refugees said they have been subjected to racist attacks. (aljazeera.com)
  • His words were widely decried as "racist" and have since fuelled violent attacks against many refugees and intensified racial tensions in Tunisia. (aljazeera.com)
  • Xenophobic attacks must end," said Noel Kututwa, Amnesty International's Deputy Director for Southern Africa Region. (oxfam.org)
  • The immigration status of foreign -nationals who are victims of the attacks in South Africa is therefore irrelevant. (oxfam.org)
  • In April 2015, The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights also adopted a resolution at its 56th Ordinary Session in Banjul, The Gambia condemning xenophobic attacks in South Africa. (oxfam.org)
  • Journalist David Sheen talks about Israel's ramping up of racist attacks against African asylum-seekers. (electronicintifada.net)
  • But rights groups say such measures have done little to deter attacks against African migrants, who often have no recourse to the police or family to protect them. (egyptindependent.com)
  • It is the main topic at an AU summit in Addis Ababa, titled "Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons: Towards durable solutions for forced displacement in Africa. (dw.com)
  • Take immediate steps to ratify and domesticate the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa as well as make a declaration under the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights that would allow direct access for individuals and Non-governmental Organizations to the Court. (oxfam.org)
  • The Africa RHP regional chapter is committed to helping the local church and communities faced with refugee and internally displaced people groups on major highways, as a result of ongoing and post conflicts in parts of Africa ( e.g. (refugeehighway.net)
  • United and engaged in effective refugee ministry so that more refugees and internally displaced people groups are served in situations of violence or post conflicts in Africa. (refugeehighway.net)
  • To analyze, mobilize and empower the local church for holistic ministry service so that more refugees and internally displaced groups are served in Africa. (refugeehighway.net)
  • Ilmari Käihkö is a PhD student at the department for Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden, who has conducted extensive field studies in eastern Liberia and investigated the Ivorian refugee areas there. (ipsnews.net)
  • He said that Ivorian refugees were waiting for the results of the 2015 presidential elections before deciding whether to return home. (ipsnews.net)
  • According to Käihkö, the issues concerning land ownership are a key reason why many Ivorian refugees choose to remain in Liberia - many feel they don't have anything to return to. (ipsnews.net)
  • And, as the number of refugees and IDPs increases, operations to provide aid for these people have been restricted because of security fears. (ipsnews.net)
  • Israeli policy toward African refugees have been heavily influenced by the advocacy and legal work of several nonprofits, including the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, Kav LaOved, Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and others. (wikipedia.org)
  • ADVOCACY: To represent to the rest of the world the unique issues and challenges of refugees in Africa. (refugeehighway.net)
  • In the same way that African leaders must hold each other to account for delivering on good governance and human rights, they are also accountable for protecting people within their borders. (oxfam.org)
  • These concerns still rank as first priorities when refugees cross borders. (worldbank.org)
  • This has seldom been as obvious as during the past autumn, when appeals for open borders and hearts were interspersed with outpourings about how we can't take in any more refugees and how Swedish society risks going under. (lu.se)
  • More than 470,000 people have fled fighting in recent years in Central African Republic and sought safety in neighbouring Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of Congo, or ROC, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (unhcr.org)
  • ADRA Chad has helped these refugees through various projects, including through constructing a borehole to provide water, building toilets, and distributing hygiene kits. (adra.org)
  • With tensions rising and shifting Israeli policy, both deterrence and support for the refugees has increased. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is the local host nations that face the greatest struggles and social tensions when former regional neighbors become refugees. (americamagazine.org)
  • In order to support refugees in accessing equitable higher education, earlier this year SAP partnered with University of the People , a non-profit, tuition-free, U.S.-accredited online university. (sap.com)
  • If a refugee has been in a non-endemic region for more than 3 months, falciparum malaria is unlikely, though possible-symptomatic patients should be tested. (cdc.gov)
  • Are you a refugee, asylum-seekers or stateless person in need of help? (unhcr.org)
  • The papers supported this argument by citing the fact that the Italian authorities quickly rejected the refugees' asylum applications. (wsws.org)
  • Authorities are now investigating how the refugees managed to travel so far despite Zimbabwe banning inter-city travel over a month ago to slow down the spread of Covid-19. (co.ke)
  • It has sent several envoys to refugee communities to share the word that they will be welcomed when they return home. (ipsnews.net)
  • EThekwini (Durban), South Africa , will employ migrants and displaced people in the city's recycling program and establish an online CARE portal to link service providers with people who need to access critical services both before and after climate disasters. (c40.org)
  • is seeing a rise in work ranging from electronic surveillance to protecting travelers," the company's regional president for Africa told Reuters. (intrepidreport.com)
  • Although a January poll showed that 66 percent of Israeli Jews support Netanyahu's efforts to expel the refugees to Africa, a recent survey found that positions are reversed in those very areas where residents were more likely to actually encounter any of them. (electronicintifada.net)
  • And local racists have long labored to shore up support for Netanyahu's anti-African policies, and to demand that even crueler measures be taken against them. (electronicintifada.net)
  • There is a growing pool of data to support the fact that refugees retain and maintain multi-stranded relations between home and host societies. (fmreview.org)
  • 3. The Africa RHP regional facilitators and teams of volunteers: protection, good health, and personal and ministry support. (refugeehighway.net)
  • In the words of University of the People President and Founder Shai Reshef: "Refugees and displaced people have the greatest need for educational support right now. (sap.com)
  • Ninety-eight percent of them are locals and refugees. (upenn.edu)
  • Sheikh, whose organization African Diaspora Forum conducts regular visits to townships to raise awareness on integration and co-existence between migrants and locals, said some businesses owned by refugees were looted and they have not returned to the area since. (turkishpress.com)
  • More than 75 percent of refugee children coming from Somali were severely malnourished, the WFP said. (apa.az)
  • Many foreigners came under attack recently in Soweto, a historic township south of Johannesburg,'' Amir Sheikh, spokesperson for the African Diaspora Forum and leader of the Somali Community Board, told Anadolu Agency in an interview over the weekend. (turkishpress.com)