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

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

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

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 ...

Scalabrini warns that adopting the First Safe Country Principle could erode refugee protection and disproportionately affect African asylum seekers Home Affairs has published a draft White Paper on ...

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 ...

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

Legal experts and political analysts are sounding the alarm over a surge in detentions and forced deportations targeting Sudanese nationals in Egypt. Critics characterise these measures as a direct ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has ended a sit-in at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) compound in the capital, Pretoria. Some two hundred people have been arrested, according to ...

A severe shortage of essential services is affecting more than one million refugees in Uganda after aid organisations scaled ...

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 ...