http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration EssentialAfrica Drum Refugees & Migration en 60 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/over-12000-congolese-refugees-have-fled-to-uganda-officials-say/article2440993/ More than 12,000 Congolese fleeing violence at home have crossed into Uganda since the end of last year, and Uganda is planning for an influx of up to 30,000 refugees from Congo, an official said Wednesday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#10405 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:32:40 +0200 http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42056&Cr=Sahel&Cr1=# UN launches emergency operation to feed thousands who fled Malian conflict http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#10390 Wed, 23 May 2012 16:50:54 +0200 http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/mali-s-worst-human-rights-situation-50-years-2012-05-15 Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in northern Mali http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#10381 Wed, 23 May 2012 16:39:27 +0200 http://mg.co.za/article/2012-05-21-israel-on-african-immigrants Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has sparked furious debate over refugees and migrant workers from Africa, claiming they threaten the nation's security. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#10345 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:08:59 +0200 http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/may/18/fighting-congo-kivu-provinces The displacement of 20,000 Congolese people following violence between rebels and the army is ominously redolent of the 2008 conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#10312 Fri, 18 May 2012 10:31:32 +0200 http://www.unhcr.org/4f97e90c9.html Since 2004, the UN refugee agency has been running a programme of Confidence Building Measures (CBM) aimed at establishing direct contact between separated families from the Western Sahara http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#10112 Thu, 3 May 2012 16:31:45 +0200 http://shabelle.net/2012/04/30/ambassadorsomalia-immigrants-inlibyaare-facing-mega-problems/ Somali ambassador in Libya Abdiqani Mohammed Wacays said Somali immigrants in that country are facing appalling living conditions http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#10070 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:53:13 +0200 http://www.lusakatimes.com/2012/04/26/angolan-refugees-asked-leave-zambia/ Since the end of the civil war in Angola in April 2002, over 180,000 Angolan refugees have voluntarily and safely returned to and reintegrated in their country of origin. Today, only some 23,000 Angolan refugees remain registered in Zambia. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#10049 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:22:33 +0200 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/1392378/-/ys7nsbz/-/index.html Kenya has been asked to set up a new camp for hundreds of Sudanese fleeing fighting in their countries. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#9995 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:52:34 +0200 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-libya-smuggling-20120408,0,3978265.story Libya's relative wealth draws many Africans seeking a better life. Often they instead find abuse, imprisonment without charge and even a kind of modern-day slavery. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#9809 Mon, 9 Apr 2012 09:54:35 +0200 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107221&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter The United Nations says there are about 82,500 Blue Nile refugees in camps in Upper Nile... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#9659 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:00:31 +0200 http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/DRC-refugees-pour-into-Uganda-20120306 More than 5 600 villagers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, facing increasing attacks from armed militias, have fled into neighbouring Uganda since the start of February, an Ugandan minister said on Tuesday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#9339 Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:10:52 +0100 http://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2012/03/2012359572584922.html Dadaab residents make space for Somali refugees despite efforts to close camp to new arrivals. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#9295 Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:18:17 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17203150 Uganda is to set up a new camp to cope with a influx of refugees from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the government has said. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#9246 Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:45:14 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17189318 Senegal's leader Abdoulaye Wade has admitted that he will now have to face a run-off after failing to win more than 50% in the first round of voting. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#9223 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:58:12 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17152685 Nearly 130,000 people have been displaced by fighting between Tuareg rebels and government forces since mid-January in Mali, the UN has warned. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#9188 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:03:51 +0100 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/east/Worlds-Biggest-Refugee-Camp-in-Kenya-Marks-20th-Anniversary-139858473.html The camp, which was set up to host 90,000 people, now shelters nearly one-half million refugees. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#9156 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:55:59 +0100 http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2012/02/16/aid-group-inhuman-conditions-at-kenyan-refugee-camps/ A medical aid group says conditions are worsening at the world's largest refugee camps in Kenya. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#9098 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:13:35 +0100 http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/jan/24/northern-uganda-displaced-people-out-in-cold Thousands of people displaced during Uganda's guerrilla war face a fight for survival after being ordered to leave camps http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#8745 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:05:52 +0100 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hari7DYAS2PKYVhM4RRAmMMcvGOA?docId=CNG.140d0aa1e4b9fa1f6d9de393aaae039f.371 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, spoke after a tour of the Shagarab refugee camp which receives about 2,000 asylum-seekers every month, largely from neighbouring Eritrea where many have fled military service. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#8563 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:36:57 +0100 http://www.unhcr.org/4f0b23c98.html UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres on Monday called on the international community to provide "massive" humanitarian support for South Sudan, which faces major forced displacement crises. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#8513 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:08:01 +0100 http://www.radiodabanga.org/node/23700 There are reports of the cost of living rising in camps for internally displaced people (IDP) across Darfur. A resident of Garsila camp in the Wadi Saleh locality in Western Darfur said the high prices coupled with the decline in aid, which is at its lowest level yet, are causing ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#8492 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:05:47 +0100 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/01/20121713141469360.html Sectarian violence has left at least 33 people dead in four separate attacks since Thursday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#8460 Sun, 8 Jan 2012 10:12:45 +0100 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE80304Q20120104 Twenty illegal Somali migrants suffocated to death as they were being smuggled in a cramped container truck through Tanzania, their bodies dumped on the road, police said on Wednesday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#8424 Thu, 5 Jan 2012 08:17:39 +0100 http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/01/04/somaliland-end-forced-return-refugees The Somaliland authorities should cease forcibly returning refugees and asylum seekers to possible persecution in Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said today. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#8407 Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:42:10 +0100 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/01/201212101840599359.html Troops being sent into area where clashes between Nuer and Murle have displaced up to 50,000 people, according to UN. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#8382 Tue, 3 Jan 2012 08:39:08 +0100 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/decapua-south-sudan-refugees-28dec11-136318718.html The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders is reporting a refugee crisis in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State. It says 60 thousand people have fled fighting just across the border in Sudan. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#8314 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:12:46 +0100 http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/12/05/libya-migrants-idINDEE7B40LA20111205 Libya's government said on Monday it intercepted hundreds of Africans bound for Italy on a fishing boat, though the migrants said they were tricked and a Libyan official said the skipper cooperated with the authorities. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#7972 Tue, 6 Dec 2011 09:21:56 +0100 http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/11/24/idINIndia-60700720111124 Libya's former rebels are holding some 7,000 detainees, many of them sub-Saharan Africans, without access to due legal process after the country's civil war, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said in a new report. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#7788 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:24:46 +0100 http://kenya.news24.com/Africa/News/UN-Sudan-refugees-streaming-into-South-20111118-2 The United Nations refugee agency says hundreds of civilians are fleeing Sudan to its newly independent neighbour South Sudan. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#7700 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:00:21 +0100 http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40429&Cr=ivoire&Cr1= The voluntary repatriation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in a refugee camp in western Côte d’Ivoire began this week with the support of the Government, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported today. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#7668 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:20:39 +0100 http://www.afriquejet.com/burundi-4000-burundian-exiles-back-home-2011111827501.html Some 4,057 Burundian refugees have returned from exile since January, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bujumbura announced Thursday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#7665 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:12:58 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15742664 There has been an outbreak of cholera in the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, home to Somalis fleeing famine and conflict, the UN has said. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#7622 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:54:41 +0100 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Refugee-Crisis-Challenges-Ivorian-Government-Aid-Workers-132255718.html Ivory Coast's new government is working to convince refugees to return home after fleeing the violence of this year's political crisis. Many of those refugees, though, remain concerned about their security, where they will live on their return home - and if they will even have homes to which they ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#7101 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:25:58 +0200 http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/10/20/1200-african-migrants-arrive-in-chad-from-south-libya/ More than 1,200 African migrants have arrived in Chad after a long and dangerous road evacuation out of southern Libya. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#7090 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:12:04 +0200 http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid=200823 The International Organization of Migration (IOM) has completed arrangements for the transportation of 3,000 citizens of the State of South Sudan living in the State of Khartoum out of the targeted number of 12,000. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#6986 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:11:58 +0200 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/10/20111014132244942142.html UN suspends all non-lifesaving operations for refugees and MSF pulls out of most of Dadaab after aid workers kidnapped. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#6942 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:27:11 +0200 http://www.sudantribune.com/Limited-funds-time-hindering-north,40414 Attempts to relocate South Sudanese from north Sudan to newly independent South Sudan are facing serious financial setbacks and time constraints, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) acknowledged in its latest media briefing. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#6877 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:20:15 +0200 http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/10/07/un-agency-to-revoke-refugee-status-for-rwandans-abroad/ The United Nations Refugee Agency says it will recommend lifting the refugee status for thousands of Rwandans next year, stating that normalcy had returned to the African country after the 1994 genocide. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#6765 Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:51:50 +0200 http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/18143-african-migrants-evacuated-from-libya-to-chad.html More than 1,200 African migrants who have been stuck in the southern Libyan desert town of Sabha for weeks in dire conditions have been evacuated and are on their way to Chad, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#6676 Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:38:38 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15141177 Streams of civilians have been fleeing the Libyan city of Sirte, ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace. Travelling in vehicles packed with belongings, they have been queuing at checkpoints leading out of the city. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#6629 Mon, 3 Oct 2011 07:00:13 +0200 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Thousands-of-Displaced-People-Facing-Eviction-in-Ivory-Coast-130907043.html The International Organization for Migration says thousands of internally displaced people are facing eviction from camps in Ivory Coast. The IOM says many of these people are fearful of returning to the homes they abandoned during the West African nation's post-election crisis and are in urgent need of shelter. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#6625 Sun, 2 Oct 2011 07:56:38 +0200 http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2011/09/19/thousands-of-eritreans-flee-forced-conscription For 12-year-old Eritrean refugee Ablel, the decision to flee his country was relatively simple. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#6315 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:19:53 +0200 http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=93742 The refugee status of 9,500 people from the Republic of Congo, who have been in neighbouring Gabon since the late 1990s, expired on 31 July, but many are still reluctant to return home. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#6277 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:55:40 +0200 http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/09/06/aid-workers-deploy-in-ethiopia-to-help-fleeing-sudanese/ The International Organization for Migration says it is moving to help thousands of Sudanese who have crossed into Ethiopia to escape fighting in southeastern Sudan. The IOM said Tuesday most of the estimated 20,000 Sudanese refugees are stranded on the Ethiopian side of the border with little food, water or ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#6007 Wed, 7 Sep 2011 06:15:08 +0200 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Somali-Refugees-Face-Harsh-Uncertain-Fate-in-Ethiopian-Camps-129347488.html The flow of refugees from famine-stricken Somalia into Ethiopia has slowed in recent weeks, but new arrivals are in worse shape than those who arrived months ago at the peak of the exodus. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#6006 Wed, 7 Sep 2011 06:13:07 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE78500320110906 Scores of Libyan army vehicles have crossed the desert frontier into Niger in what may be a dramatic, secretly negotiated bid by Muammar Gaddafi to seek refuge in a friendly African state, military sources from France and Niger told Reuters on Tuesday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#5968 Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:43:00 +0200 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/African-Migrants-in-Libya-Live-in-Fear-129265833.html Human rights organizations say tens of thousands of African migrants in Libya have been displaced from their homes and jobs by months of fighting between forces loyal to former leader Moammar Gadhafi and the transitional authority that opposes him. Many are living in fear under difficult conditions in makeshift camps. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#5963 Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:33:18 +0200 http://www.sudantribune.com/UN-Thousands-flee-to-Ethiopia,40047 The UN’s Refugee agency (UNHCR) on Saturday disclosed that conflict in Sudan’s Blue Nile state between the army and an opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) have forced thousands of people to flee to neighboring Ethiopia. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#5946 Mon, 5 Sep 2011 11:15:05 +0200 http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/09/03/un-says-ivory-coast-refugees-returning-home/ The United Nation's refugee agency says 70,000 Ivorians who fled the post-election violence in their country have now returned home. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-refugees-and-migration#5935 Sun, 4 Sep 2011 09:40:32 +0200