4,300 Somali Refugees Has Returned to Their Home
UNHCR, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, has reported that since 2017, 4,300 Somali refugees have returned to their homes from Yemen thanks to Assisted Spontaneous Return Programme. UNHCR spokesman Babar Bloch said in...
Reopening of Cape Town Refugee Reception Office
Scalabrini Centre may head back to court over closure of refugee reception office in Cape Town. Initially, the centre was due to reopen by March 2018, but the Home Affairs Department missed the deadline....
Are Africans’ Freedoms Slipping Away?
Protection of individual rights and liberties has been on both the African continental agenda and the global agenda for decades, shaped especially by the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African...
Zambia Gets Schooled in Mandarin
Zambia is preparing to put into action of the largest Mandarin- teaching programme in Africa. Zambia government has signed a memorandum about that is targeted increasing of Chinese culture throughout the world with China’s...
Maybe Africa Really Will Be the New China
When people tell me that Africa will be the new China, I’m not as incredulous as I used to be. The continent is showing potential, and progress could come from what many consider to...
Suakin: Turkey Wins Against Regional Rivals
Few Turks knew the name of the Suakin Peninsula before the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Khartoum on December 2017. But it is so important at the geostrategic level that in...
UNICEF Reports on East and South Africa
The report includes statistics on displacement in the region, as well as situations related to the needs of district citizens and refugees such as cleanliness, health, housing and education.
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Advancing a Resilient and Sustainable U.S.-Africa Partnership
Corporate Council on Africa and the Government of Mozambique will host the 12th U.S. Africa Business Summit on June 18 - 21, 2019 in Maputo, Mozambique. The Summit will bring together more than 1,000...
UN Renews Arms Embargo on South Sudan
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday newed a one-year-old arms embargo on South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation. Despite resistance from South Africa, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Russia and China, ten members...
Germany Withholds Aid for Uganda
The German government has decided to withhold €100 million of funds it had pledged to the country for refugee resettlement annually. In 2018, the United Nations found that millions of dollars of aid money...
