Libyan security forces used “unnecessary and disproportionate” force to detain African migrants, shooting dead some of those trying to escape, the UN human rights office has said as it demanded…
adminNovember 2, 2021
THE International Organization for Migration has said it assisted in bringing back 21,500 stranded Nigerians from Libya, Mali, among others, in the last four years. The Programme Manager, IOM, Nigeria,…
adminSeptember 3, 2021
The Borno Government has shit down the Mohammed Goni Islamic and Legal Studies (MOGOLIS) Internally Displaced Persons ( IDPs) camp in Maiduguri. Announcing the formal closure of the camp on…
adminAugust 30, 2021
United States companies, including Airbnb and Walmart, are lending a hand to the people of Afghanistan after the recent collapse of the US-backed government and takeover by the Taliban. Home-sharing…
adminAugust 25, 2021
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, sends its best wishes to the Refugee Paralympic Team ahead of the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo on Tuesday. The team sends a…
adminAugust 25, 2021
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is increasingly concerned by the instrumentalization of refugees and migrants by states apparently to achieve political ends. People are not, and should never be, pawns…
adminJuly 27, 2021
Surging violence in Nigeria drives displacement to Niger This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing…
adminJuly 27, 2021
in conversation with Onyekachi Wambu (AFFORD) and Dr Neil Curtis (Aberdeen University) These icons, cultural and human, left the continent at a period of a great imbalance in power. As…
adminJuly 27, 2021
INTRODUCTION In 2020, iDiaspora coordinated three global exchanges with members of the diaspora responding to the pandemic. Through these virtual dialogues, different actors involved in the development of diasporic initiatives…
adminJuly 27, 2021