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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Detains 104 Congolese Refugees Who Escaped Camp

[Nation] A group of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been detained in Zimbabwe after they were caught while heading to Botswana following their escape from the country's main refugee camp. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: FEC Earmarks $1.484bn for Kaduna, Warri Refineries Rehabilitation

[Daily Trust] The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the award of contracts for the rehabilitation of Warri and Kaduna refineries to Messrs Saipem SPA and Saipem Contracting Limited at the combined the sum of $1.484 billion. (AllAfrica)


Ethiopia: 'Pressure to Open a Corridor Through Western Tigray Unacceptable' - Risk Management Commissioner

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- "The pressure to open a corridor through western Tigray is unacceptable," Mitiku Kassa, National Disaster Risk Management Commissioner told a local news outlet today. (AllAfrica)


Mozambique: Government Approves Strategy for Managing Displaced

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican government on Tuesday approved the policy and strategy for managing internally displaced people. (AllAfrica)


Liberia: Ghanaian President Gives Green Light for Demolition of Budumburam Refugee Camp

[FrontPageAfrica] Buduburam Refugee Camp -- Solomon Darko Quarm, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Gomoa East in the Central Region in Ghana has revealed that they have been given instruction by President Akufo Ado to demolish the Buduburam Refugee Camp and settlements around the camp. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Displaced By Insurgents, Residents of Borno Community Seek Higher Education in Maiduguri

[Premium Times] "My ambition is to become a health information manager and ensure Marte gets adequate clinics," says one of the displaced persons (AllAfrica)


South Sudan: More Than 15,000 Displaced People Need Humanitarian Assistance - Organisation

[Agenzia Fides] Tombura -- The situation of 15,000 internally displaced persons in Tombura alone is becoming more serious every day, said Kia Moses, representative of the Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CODEP) who, along with other representatives of humanitarian organizations, spent five days in the city of Western Equatoria state to assess the situation following the ongoing tribal clashes. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Keystone Bank Donates Sanitary Kits to Over 3000 Girls in North-East

[Daily Trust] Keystone Bank Limited, through its 'Pink Network' initiative, in partnership with Hayat Holdings (Producer of MOLPED Pad) and WHAI (Whispering Hope for Africa) Nigeria, has donated menstrual period kits to over 3000 'marginalized' girls in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps and secondary schools within the North-Eastern region of Nigeria. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Zulum Visits Marte, Supports Returnees With Foodstuff

[Vanguard] Maiduguri -- Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Sunday visited Garade, a community in Marte Local Government Area. The Governor provided livelihood support to enable them to meet up their needs. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Borno Distributes Food to Marte IDPs

[Daily Trust] Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, Sunday supervised the distribution of food aid to returnees in Garade, Marte Local Government Area. (AllAfrica)


Ethiopia: Number of Civilians Displaced After Tigrayan Forces' Attacks In Afar State Approaching 100, 000 - Report

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Citing various sources of humanitarian organizations, Wazema radio reported that the number of civilians displaced in Afar state is approaching about 100,000 people. (AllAfrica)


Ethiopia: U.S. Announces U.S.$149 Million More for Tigray

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ahead of the planned visit by Samantha Power, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, the US has announced additional $149 million to support the humanitarian response in Tigray state, where the UN said more than 90% of the population are in need of emergency food assistance. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Distraught Borno Farmers Displaced By Boko Haram Languish in IDP Camps

[Premium Times] Farming, the commonest means of livelihood in these impacted areas, remains a difficult, nearly impossible enterprise due to the sustained Boko Haram conflict. (AllAfrica)


Congo-Kinshasa: Ituri. Fleeing War, Weaving Life in IDP Camps of Bunia

[IPS] Rome -- He moves aside the curtain, thin as gauze, and Follow @IPSNewsUNBureauthen bends over. The darkness dazzles for a few seconds when one enters the house--actually, a den made of earth where air and light filter through the narrow entrance. Jean de Dieu Amani Paye holds her tiny baby, wrapped in an elegant fabric, in his arms. He was a teacher of French and Latin and had a small business. He also cultivated the land: cassava, corn, sorghum, and beans. (AllAfrica)


Africa: Nearly 1,000 Migrants Have Drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in 2021 - UN

[RFI] The 57 migrants who drowned off the coast of Libya on Sunday added to the toll of nearly 1,000 lives lost in the Mediterranean Sea this year alone, the UN agency International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has revealed. (AllAfrica)


East Africa: More Refugees From Ethiopia Stream Into Sudan

[VOA] Khartoum -- Authorities in Sudan say at least 3,000 Ethiopian refugees fled into Sudan this week, after the war in Ethiopia's Tigray region spread to the neighboring Amhara region. VOA speaks to a refugee camp director and a political analyst about the significance of the influx in this report from Khartoum. (AllAfrica)


Cameroon: Cameroon Asks People Who Fled Boko Haram to Return

[VOA] Maroua -- Cameroon's government has sent ministers to its northern border with Nigeria to convince villagers who fled Boko Haram militants to return. Cameroon invested $10 million on reconstruction efforts after damage caused by the Islamist terrorist group in some villages. But, in northern Cameroon, many villagers are reluctant to go home, and authorities acknowledge the militants are still a threat. (AllAfrica)


Sudan: Heavy Rainfall Affects White Nile Camp for South Sudanese Refugees

[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- On Sunday, the El Ganaa refugee camp in El Jabalein locality near the border between South Sudan and Sudan's White Nile state was hit by torrential rains. In El Gurashi in neighbouring El Gezira, about 700 families are surrounded by floodwaters. (AllAfrica)


South Africa: Like Gender and Racial Minorities Before Them, Non-Citizens Fight a Culture of Exclusion in the Legal Profession

[Daily Maverick] On 20 July 2021, the Asylum Seeker, Refugee and Migrant Coalition and three other individuals initiated high court litigation against the justice minister and the Legal Practice Council, challenging the provisions of the Legal Practice Act that bar certain categories of non-citizens from practising as lawyers. (AllAfrica)


Africa: Is the Geneva Refugee Convention Living Up to the Times?

[DW] As the UN document turns 70 years old, experts say there is a lack of political will to implement the rights of refugees under the agreement. Countries in Africa are already moving beyond it. (AllAfrica)


South Sudan: Workshop On National Durable Solutions Strategy and Action Plan for South Sudan Initiative Concludes in South Sudan

[UNHCR] The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and partners, applaud progress toward lasting solutions for forcibly displaced persons as the national validation workshop for Durable Solutions Strategy and Plan of Action for Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Host Communities in South Sudan concluded today in Juba, South Sudan. (AllAfrica)


Southern Africa: As the Refugee Convention Turns 70, the Plight of Millions of Africans Highlights the Challenges Ahead

[Daily Maverick] Today, 85% of the world's refugees live in developing or the least developed countries. Patterns of displacement continue to evolve, driven by the interrelation of extreme poverty, the climate crisis and conflict. Lasting solutions are hard to find, making the work of the UN Refugee Agency even more pressing and complex. (AllAfrica)


Ethiopia: UN Says Armed Groups Threaten Thousands of Eritrean Refugees in Tigray

[VOA] Geneva -- The UN refugee agency warns about 24,000 Eritrean refugees trapped in two camps in northern Ethiopia's Tigray province are in great danger as fighting among armed groups escalates. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Zulum Raises Committee to Rebuild Abadam, Resettle IDPs, Refugees

[Daily Trust] Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State on Monday inaugurated a committee for the resettlement of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees who are indigenes of Abadam Local Government Area to Malamfatori, the LGA's headquarters. (AllAfrica)


South Africa: Leave No One Behind - We Must Urgently Address Vaccination of Undocumented Migrants and Asylum Seekers

[Daily Maverick] We call on Acting Health Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi to do the right thing and follow international guidelines to ensure the Covid-19 vaccination programme is inclusive. Without this we will fail to achieve population immunity, variants will continue to emerge and we will all suffer. Civil society and the research community are here to help, but we need a seat at the table. (AllAfrica)


Zimbabwe: No Farms for UK Deportees - Zanu-PF

[New Zimbabwe] THE ruling Zanu PF party denies it has offered the 14 Zimbabweans deported from the United Kingdom last Thursday access to land for farming. (AllAfrica)


Sudan: Hundreds Protest Deadly Attack On North Darfur's Displaced

[Radio Dabanga] El Fasher / Kabkabiya -- Hundreds of people participated in a mass demonstration in El Fasher on Tuesday to condemn the attack on Sortony camp for the displaced in Kabkabiya locality, North Darfur, in which at least 17 people were killed, including children. (AllAfrica)


Togo: UNHCR Welcomes Togo's Decision to Intensify Its Fight Against Statelessness

[UNHCR] UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, applauds Togo's accession to the two UN Conventions on Statelessness. (AllAfrica)


Malawi: Cdedi Disowns Letter to Minister Chimwendo Banda On Removal of Aliens

[Nyasa Times] The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has disowned a letter circulating on various social media platforms purportedly issued by it addressed to the Minister of Homeland Security, Richard Chimwendo Banda, in relation to refugees and asylum seekers in Malawi. (AllAfrica)


Nigeria: Malaysian Aid Group Gives Succour to IDPs, Widows in Borno

[Daily Trust] A Malaysian aid group, Yayasan Budi Ihsan, has donated 100 herds of cattle and 50 goats to 13 internally-displaced persons (IDPs) camps and host communities in Borno State. (AllAfrica)


Mozambique: Hundreds Evacuated As Cyclone Hits City of Beira

[AIM] Maputo -- As forecast, Cyclone Eloise hit the central Mozambican city of Beira early on Saturday morning, with winds of 140 kilometres an hour and gusts of up to 160 kilometres an hour, according to the independent television station, STV. (AllAfrica)