Strategic Thinking on East Africa

23 JUL 2015 00:00 AZAD ESSA About 2 500 Burundians are fleeing into Tanzania every week, overwhelming aid agencies who say refugee facilities had now reached “breaking point”. Doctors without Borders (MSF) told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the Nyarugusu refugee camp near the Tanzanian town of Kasulu, close to the border with Burundi, was simply […]

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Addis Ababa, 02 July, 2015 (WIC) - Ethiopia is the leading recipient of refugees from different African nations, Ethiopia’s Administration for Refugee and Returnees Affairs (ARRA) said. Deputy Director of ARRA, Ayalew Awoke told WIC that Ethiopia is leading in Africa and ranked fifth in the world in receiving and hosting great numbers of refugees. According […]

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April 7, 2015-Eritreans are the fastest growing refugee population in Africa. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says that over 70 Eritreans cross the border into Ethiopia per day. Ethiopia is now hosting over 93,000 Eritrean refugees. Why are they fleeing? The International Crisis Group (ICG) argues that Eritrea’s national service is to […]

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A South Sudanese woman and her two children rest under a tree after fleeing their country and crossing into Ethiopia at the Pagak border entry point earlier this week. Photo: UNHCR/R. R. Thot 1 May 2015 – The number of South Sudanese refugees who have fled to Ethiopia since fighting broke out in South Sudan […]

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From DevEx By Flavie Halaisflaviehalais A member of the Kenya Defense Forces at the airport in Kismayo, Somalia. The city was liberated from al-Shabab by the combined forces of the Kenyan and Somali military in October 2012. Kenya has recently launched a number of initiatives meant to protect the country’s borders against the terrorist group. Photo […]

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By: JAMES KARUHANGA The representative of the UN’s refugee agency has commended the government and people of Rwanda for hosting and protecting thousands of Burundian refugees. Saber Azam was, Wednesday, visiting the new Mahama refugee camp in Kirehe District, where Burundian refugees are being settled. “It’s not easy to be a small country, that is heavily […]

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PRESS RELEASE This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ariane Rummery - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 28 April 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Over the weekend, the number of Burundian refugees crossing into Rwanda has jumped significantly, with over […]

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Middle East Online Will there be enough funds?   Middle East online reports that Kenya has appealed to donors after its plan to shut down the world’s largest refugee camp and send Somalis back home ran into funding problems, reports said Wednesday. Kenya threatened to close the Dadaab camps and send home more than 360,000 […]

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By Maimuna Mohamud and Dr. Cindy Horst Posted on April 16, 2015 by AfricanArgumentsEditor The humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, in which thousands of migrants have drowned attempting to cross into Europe, highlights the urgency there is to find a solution to tackling certain forms of migration from North Africa and the Middle East. Across the EU, mounting […]

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Nairobi’s widespread crackdown after the Garissa university massacre sparks concern that it will cause even more suffering. BY JAMILA TRINDLE APRIL 17, 2015 Kenya’s initial response to a terrorist attack that killed nearly 150 people on April 2 was widely criticized as being devastatingly slow. Now, however, Nairobi is racing to prevent the next attack with a slate […]

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