An US intel insider predicts that over 4 000 South Africans, predominately Afrikaners, could be granted refugee status each month.

Amid the ongoing war in Sudan, Chad, the country receiving the most refugees in Central Africa, saw slight improvements in its humanitarian situation last year, but as one of the most vulnerable ...

SA’s new First Safe Country principle was drafted late last year by the Department of Home Affairs and it represents a big ...

Civil society organisations warn that adopting the First Safe Country Principle could erode refugee protection and disproportionately affect African asylum seekers.

Several African states have, since 1969, adopted progressive refugee laws and policies in line with the 1969 OAU Refugee Convention. Others are revising their refugee laws and policies to reflect both ...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, March 18 (UNHCR) - Days after a coup d'état in the Central African Republic (CAR), refugee leaders in the neighbouring Congos have asked the UN refugee ...

Images of rubber dinghies overcrowded with refugees heading for Europe and narratives about mistreatment and exploitation of ...

It is reminiscent of 2012-2013, when the authorities shuttered the Mtabila camp. The Burundian civil war had ended, but many Burundian refugees did not feel safe returning. Despite these fears, ...

South Africa is set to enter a new era of migration management with the release of a draft white paper on immigration, ...

Neil Edwards is the volunteer intern for CFR’s Africa Program in Washington, DC. He is a master’s candidate at the School of International Service at American University and is a returned Peace Corps ...

The Trump administration has announced that it plans to reduce refugee admissions to the United States next year from 45,000 to 30,000. This would be the lowest ceiling for refugee admissions since ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African immigration authorities raided a United States refugee processing center in Johannesburg and seven Kenyans working there illegally were arrested and given deportation ...