There could soon be relief for scores of asylum seekers and refugees who have been struggling to renew their documents at the Department of Home Affairs, which plan to roll out an ... Read more »

Security will be increased to protect LGBTIQA+ people living at Kakuma camp in northwestern Kenya, a UN official has said, following the death of a gay man who was set alight in ... Read more »

The rights of refugees and asylum seekers who fled Burundi for Tanzania must be respected, experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council have said in an appeal to authorities in ... Read more »

The past year has been deadly for African and Asian-born migrants in South Africa. And if past trends are anything to go by, it is about to become deadlier, write Godfrey Mulaudzi, ... Read more »

The government has given the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees a 14-day ultimatum to ensure closure of the facilities which collectively host over 500,000 people, ... Read more »

A report from Amnesty International says hundreds of people in Côte d'Ivoire are languishing in dire conditions in prison after being arrested during violence and ... Read more »

Senior leaders with the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, have warned of the urgent need to address the growing humanitarian crisis in the Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, ... Read more »

Botswana has started repatriating about 300 Zimbabweans who fled the country during the reign of late former president Robert Mugabe. Some have arrived in Zimbabwe's border town of ... Read more »

There have been several sporadic attacks on migrant vendors and their tented stalls in the KwaZulu Natal Province's city of Durban, when scores were forcibly removed by a group ... Read more »

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said that several hundred Nigerians have returned home from Cameroon, seven years after they were displaced by Boko Haram ... Read more »