May 7

• Africa: U.S. Reforms Could Slash African Immigration Levels

  Advocates for the African diaspora in the United States have stepped up a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress not to end a longstanding visa programme aimed at boosting immigration... Read more »

May 3

• Rwanda: Not Safe for Rwandan Refugees to Return

  The Congolese government is demanding a comprehensive strategy for a lasting solution for the repatriation of 127,537 Rwandan refugees estimated to be in the country. Read more »

April 24

• Congo-Kinshasa: Locals Refuse to Protest for M23 Rebels

  When M23 rebels tried twice to arrange a protest march against a United Nations resolution to deploy an intervention brigade with an offensive mandate to eastern Democratic... Read more »

April 11

• Mali: Refugees Strive to Rebuild Their Lives

  Malian widow Mariama Sow, 30, and her three children are trying to find some semblance of normalcy in their lives in Dakar, Senegal, since they left the historic city of Timbuktu... Read more »

April 1

• Libya: Refugees of Libyan War Protest At World Social Forum

  "We need a solution. The U.N. has created the problem, and they should do their work and fix it," says Bright, a young Nigerian stuck in the Choucha refugee camp in Tunisia, a few... Read more »

March 27

• Zambia: Electricity for All but Those the Kariba Dam Displaced

  Indigenous people who were displaced from the Zambezi Valley almost six decades ago for the construction of the Kariba Dam say they have not benefited from the development they... Read more »

March 19

• Congo-Kinshasa: 'Born in War, Grown Up in War, Now Time for Rehabilitation'

  Sungu Mizele, a Congolese national living in Yambio, in South Sudan's Western Equatoria state, earns a living selling the fruit and vegetables that she grows in her backyard, at... Read more »

March 7

• Uganda: North Kivu Refugees Hope to Find Peace

  As dawn rises over Nyakabande, a village in southwestern Uganda, people line up in front of a reception tent, exhausted and carrying only the few belongings they could bring across... Read more »

March 6

• Mali: Refugees Look to Rebuild Their Lives

  Malian refugees in Mangaïze, northwest Niger, are keen to return home to start work and be able to support themselves once more. Read more »

February 23

• Mali: Malian Refugees Wanting to Return Home Face Difficult Choices

  When northern Malian refugees fled their country for Niger in 2012, they expected they would be able to return home shortly afterwards. But despite the armed intervention by the... Read more »

February 22

• Mali: Tuaregs and Arabs Not Ready to Return to Mali

  Fatimata Wallet Haibala sits among a group of women and teenage girls under a tent, her handicapped boy on her lap. Read more »

February 21

• Congo-Kinshasa: Market Gardening Provides Livelihoods for Refugees

  Standing behind her market stall in Masisu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which overflows with cabbages, carrots and onions, Marceline Dusabe does not fit the... Read more »

November 26, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: Fighting Threatens Children

  Humanitarian agencies working in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been overwhelmed following a massive displacement triggered by fighting between the... Read more »

August 17, 2012

• Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Conflict Worsens, Oxfam Warns

  Millions of people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are under siege as they get killed, kidnapped and abused -as the rebel group M23 takes control of the area. Read more »

July 18, 2012

• Somalia: UN Warns of Impending Humanitarian Crisis

  The United Nations has called for sustained aid efforts in Somalia to prevent the war-torn country from experiencing another humanitarian crisis as more than three million people... Read more »

July 13, 2012

• Mali: U.S. Commits 10 Million for Refugees As Intervention Talk Builds

  President Barack Obama on Thursday authorised the release of 10 million dollars in emergency funding to help with the refugee crisis stemming from continued violence in northern... Read more »

July 10, 2012

• Algeria: This Football Is a Game of Dispossession

  The football teams are back in their refugee camps in Algeria, and no, FIFA has taken no note of this tournament. And the television cameras are all at the Euro cup. Read more »

June 11, 2012

• South Sudan: Israel Opens Doors to Push South Sudanese Out

  Moses Gadia speaks quietly, a detailed and colourful map of South Sudan on the wall next to him. In the courtyard outside, a group of six men, all South Sudanese refugees, chat in... Read more »

• Africa: Israelis Attack Africans

  It's Saturday night in south Tel Aviv. Amine Zegata, a 36-year-old refugee from Eritrea is reopening the small bar he owns in the HaTikva neighbourhood. The pub was closed after... Read more »

May 18, 2012

• South Sudan: Bracing for a Massive Influx of Returnees

  In the wake of border tensions the United Nations is airlifting 12,000 southerners from a Sudanese frontier town into South Sudan. But they are returning home in the midst of an... Read more »

May 14, 2012

• Libya: Deserting Refugees in the Sahara

  As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant "Libya free, Chadians out", before they... Read more »

March 28, 2012

• Sudan: The Forgotten Emergency in Blue Nile State

  Hamid Yussef Bashir said he walked for 17 days with his wife and five children to get to a refugee camp in South Sudan. Here in Jamam, they joined about 37,000 other people who... Read more »

March 19, 2012

• South Sudan: Thousands of Refugees in Israel Face Expulsion

  Thousands of African refugees in Israel face expulsion to dangerous conditions in their countries of origin as Israel hardens its policies. The refugees are increasingly turning to... Read more »

February 21, 2012

• Mali: Niger - Strained Welcome for 15,000 Refugees

  The little village of Chinagoder, on the Niger-Mali border, has become a refugee camp, flooded with Malian families fleeing fighting between their regular army and Tuareg rebels... Read more »

February 17, 2012

• Libya: Exiles Return Contentiously

  With the June deadline for congressional elections approaching, Libyans previously in exile are returning home to take part in the construction of a new political landscape.... Read more »