The African Center for Strategic Studies reports that conflicts continue to drive record levels of population displacement in Africa. The continent's 36 million forcibly displaced persons represent 44% of the global total.
With the first convoy of 88 refugees, the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR on July 19 resumed the voluntary repatriation of Congolese refugees from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after departures were halted in 2020.
Refugees and other migrants receive a lower standard of health care in comparison to local residents, a new WHO report has found. Migrants face additional hurdles including language, economic and legal barriers, as well as unequal a1
The Rise Above rescue ship, operated by the German rescue organization Mission Lifeline, saved almost 70 migrants in the Mediterranean on Wednesday in three operations.
An average of about five migrants per day lost their lives attempting to cross the dangerous Atlantic Ocean to Spain between January and July 2022, the organization Caminando Fronteras has said.