Tag: internally displaced persons
Conditions worsen for Cabo Delgado IDPs amid waves of terror attacks
More than 542,000 internally displaced people (IDP) in northern Mozambique’s conflict-torn Cabo Delgado province face dire humanitarian conditions amid an insurgency that has raged...
African refugees neglected as crises worsen
World Refugee Day - marked on 20 June - is a reminder that Africa and the world cannot peacefully maintain the current pace of...
ISS: How Africa can reduce COVID-19’s impact on displaced persons
Africa’s 25.2 million refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons are some of the most vulnerable groups to COVID-19. They are hosted in areas...
ISS: Breaking Africa’s cycle of forced displacement
Children make up 59% of Africa’s refugees and 50% of its internally displaced people. And while forced displacement continues to steal the childhoods of...
As Nigeria elections loom, refugees ordered back to unsafe region
Nigerian government officials have ordered thousands of displaced people to return to an unsafe area as pressure mounts to show progress in...
