United States authorities say a Congolese woman died at a hospital in the state of Texas on Christmas Day after seeking entry at the U.S. border with Mexico. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency said the 41-year-old woman from Democratic Republic of Congo arrived with her family at…
There was a time when the withered Lake Chad region was the focal point of what climate change on the African continent looked like, and what it could or would mean for migration. Some 2.6 million people are displaced there, according to the most recent numbers from the United Nations…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
Congolese refugees who fled to Angola to escape fighting between armed groups and military forces in 2017 are beginning to return home, according to Angolan officials and UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency. Some 8,000 refugees have been on the move for the past week, with more than 1,400 already…
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, raised the alarm on Tuesday over increasing violence in Nigeria, this time in a northwest region where conflict is not related to the Islamist extremism that plagues Borno state. Rather, the violence is sparked by communal and ethnic violence, vigilantism and kidnappings for ransom in…
The death toll in Libya’s clash over Tripoli has reached 264 people, with another 1,266 wounded, according to United Nations officials speaking to reporters on Tuesday. The number includes 21 civilian fatalities and another 69 injured since the fighting began on April 4. There are large numbers of people fleeing…
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, each addressed the African Union assembly on Sunday as the outgoing Kagame handed over the AU leadership to Sisi. In his remarks to African heads of state, Sisi called for the creation of more job opportunities and investments. He…
Africa is making great progress on common-market goals but faces many challenges in dealing with refugee crises and the conflicts that cause them, said African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat on Thursday as he delivered opening remarks ahead of the AU Summit in Addis Ababa. The African Continental Free…
The United Nations is calling on global citizens to stand in solidarity with the world’s migrants and refugees – this time not by standing at all, but by walking, running and biking. UNHCR, the UN agency for refugees, launched a project this week that invites the world to cover the…
The UN Refugee Agency released its annual Global Trends study on Tuesday, a report that finds 68.5 million people had been driven from their homes across the world at the end of 2017, primarily because of war and conflict. Seven of the Top 10 source countries of refugees were on the…
A bottleneck for refugees fleeing Libya into Niger – and waiting to continue on to Europe – is threatening the success of an agreement to free migrants and refugees from Libyan detention centers and slave markets. The deal between the European Union (EU), African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN)…
The UN Refugee Agency on Thursday expressed “great concern” over the forced return to Cameroon of 47 people who sought refuge in Nigeria, most of whom had submitted asylum claims. “Their forcible return is in violation of the principle of non-refoulement, which constitutes the cornerstone of international refugee law,” the…
The United States has decided to end participation in the UN process to develop a Global Compact on Migration (GCM), the U.S. Department of State said Sunday. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the compact, adopted by the UN in September 2016, requires negotiations to be based on the…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says alarm is ever-growing over extreme violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the number of refugees now fleeing into neighboring Zambia. Some 3,360 refugees poured across the border in September, more than doubling the total number who have sought safety…
As world leaders gathered for the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, two Somali immigrants to the United States found themselves there too – living in the childhood home of President Donald Trump. Eiman Ali and Abdi Iftin moved into the old homestead in Queens for the weekend,…
The United Nations refugee agency said it was “shocked and saddened” by the news that at least three dozen refugees and asylum seekers from Burundi were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called for an investigation into the incident in Kamanyola,…