The Global Refugee Forum - African Experience Is Key

Finding lasting solutions to Africa's refugee crisis is a priority. The key challenge is to find holistic solutions for refugees and host communities that go beyond immediate needs, write Tsion Tadesse Abebe and Solomon Hassen Tegegne for the Institute for Security Studies. One source of lessons learned is the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework - which includes seven African countries. Their experiences are likely to feature prominently at the first Global Refugee Forum in Geneva.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi meets a group of refugees attending the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva.

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