The Secretary General of the African Federation of Environmental Journalists (AFEJ) calls international concern over Kenya and Somalia leaders talks now going on in Nairobi to protect the Somalia’n refugees who are currently under a climate of hopeless as the government of Kenya have ordered the Somali refugees to enter its territory and similarly the [...]
Statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons Chaloka Beyani to mark the coming into force of the Kampala Convention GENEVA (6 December 2012) – “Today, Africa has achieved a milestone and demonstrated its leadership in addressing one of the most pressing humanitarian issues in the world. With the [...]
According to new ILO estimates, three out of every 1,000 people worldwide are trapped in jobs into which they were coerced or deceived and which they cannot leave. Press release | 01 June 2012 Geneva (ILO News) – Almost 21 million people are victims of forced labour globally a new ILO study says. This means [...]
Wrote by Daud Abdi Daud Africa is still suffering the affects of global warming which causes Africa to be the poorest region in the world and looked as continent the most vulnerable to the impacts of projected changes due to widespread poverty limits and adaptation capabilities. In fact, so as to draw a close measurable [...]
- Some 1,000 Chadian migrants – most of them children separated from their families – are waiting for aid in the village of N’Gbouboua in the Lac region of western Chad having fled Boko Haram-related violence in Nigeria, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). With more arriving each day – some 100 have [...]
DAR ES SALAAM/BUJUMBURA, 24 February 2012 (IRIN) – Pressure is mounting on tens of thousands of Burundian nationals who fled to Tanzania during the civil war in the early 1990s to return home, despite their reluctance to leave. Burundi’s civil war ended in 2005 but it remains in a state of acrimonious political deadlock, with [...]
ASYLUM-SEEKERS detained and ill-treated Somali and Eritrean asylum-seekers and migrants are on hunger strike in protest against their illegal detention at a Migrant Accommodation Centre in Western Ukraine. They, and detainees from other countries supporting them have been threatened and beaten and are at risk of other ill-treatment. On 30 January, the Migrant Accommodation Centre [...]
Some of the senior Somali journalists in Nairobi and their union leaders, visited colleague Hassan Mohamed Mohamoud better known as Hassan Jaceyl, who has been suffering severe diabetes and had one of his legs amputated last year due to the diabetes, at COPTIC hospital in Nairobi on, on Saturday February 4, 2012. Hassan, 45, a [...]
Thousands of people along the border with Niger and Burkina Faso are being forced to leave their homes in search of food as a result of the deepening food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa. Christian Aid has sent and emergency task force to the north of Burkina Faso to develop its programme of [...]
Rwandans who fled the 1994 genocide and sought asylum in other countries will lose their refugee status by the end of June 2012 if the countries hosting them follow a recommendation by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). According to the “cessation clause” of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, which UNHCR is [...]