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Africa: UN Highlights Need to Solve Growing Burden of Forcibly Displaced Africans
UN News, 21 May 2019
With 24.2 million Africans forced from their homes in 2017 ̶ 4.6 million more than the previous year ̶ the UN is hosting a three-day event at UN headquarters, focusing on finding… Read more »
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Sierra Leone: UNHCR, Pan-African Parliament Agree to Step Up Cooperation On Forced Displacement
Concord, 16 May 2019
UNHCR Representative to the African Union Cosmos Chanda and Pan African Parliament President Roger Nkodo Dang sign agreement in Midrand South Africa. UNHCR/S. Momodu Read more »
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Africa: Internal Displacement 'Deserves Visibility'
IPS, 11 May 2019
More people are displaced inside their own countries than ever before, and only higher figures can be expected without urgent long-term action, a new report found. Read more »
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Africa: Young Refugees Can Help 'Silence the Guns By 2020'
ISS, 9 May 2019
Today more than 600 million young people globally live in fragile and conflict-affected areas, many of them in Africa. At some point they are forced to leave their homes to embark… Read more »