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Dec
15
2020
By The African Mirror
UN agency says more than 400,000 flee Mozambique militant attacks

UN agency says more than 400,000 flee Mozambique militant attacks

NEWS
AT least 400,000 people have fled militant attacks in northern Mozambique, the United Nations refugee agency said, warning that the crisis could quickly spread beyond the country's borders if regional neighbours did not help tackle the insurgency. Mozambique's northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, home to gas developments worth some $60 billion, is grappling with an insurgency linked to Islamic State that has gathered pace this year, with insurgents regularly taking on the army and seizing entire towns. Valentin Tapsoba, the southern African head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), said families who were rebuilding their lives after…
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Nov
18
2020
By The African Mirror
‘Full-scale’ humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ethiopia – U.N.

‘Full-scale’ humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ethiopia – U.N.

NEWS
EMMA FARGE A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Ethiopia, the United Nations refugee agency has warned, with more than 27,000 people now having fled heavy fighting to Sudan. The pace of the exodus, some 4,000 a day, may also indicate huge uprooting of people within the Tigray region, U.N. agencies said, adding that teams on the ground were overwhelmed. "People are coming out of Ethiopia really scared, afraid, with stories saying they have been fleeing heavy fighting and there's no sign of the fighting stopping," Babar Baloch, spokesman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a Geneva…
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Oct
18
2020
By The African Mirror
Migrant evacuation flights resume from Libya, U.N. agency says

Migrant evacuation flights resume from Libya, U.N. agency says

NEWS
UNITED Nations evacuation flights for migrants stuck in Libya have resumed after being suspended because of the global pandemic, according to the U.N. refugee agency More than 150 people from Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan, including 15 children under 18 years old, flew to Niger later on Thursday where they are now in quarantine, the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said. Both UNHCR and the U.N. migration agency IOM have called for Libya, torn apart by years of war and chaos, to be classed as an unsafe port for migrants. The country has long been a stepping stone…
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Oct
09
2020
By The African Mirror
Three Libyans arrested for burning Nigerian man to death

Three Libyans arrested for burning Nigerian man to death

NEWS
THREE Libyans killed a Nigerian man by setting him on fire in Tripoli, the interior ministry has said, in what a U.N. agency described as "another senseless crime against migrants in the country". The Tripoli-based interior ministry said in a statement it had arrested the three suspects in the case, adding that they had used petrol to set the victim on fire at a factory. Federico Soda, Libya country chief for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), a U.N. migration agency, said those responsible must be held accountable. There are half a million migrants in Libya according to IOM, some…
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Oct
08
2020
By The African Mirror
Gunmen kill 25 displaced people in Burkina Faso

Gunmen kill 25 displaced people in Burkina Faso

NEWS
ARMED assailants have killed 25 displaced people in northern Burkina Faso as their convoy tried to make its way home, according to the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR. The gunmen, who carried out the attack near the town of Pissila in the Center-North region on the night of October 4, separated the men from the group and shot them. The women and children were let go, UNHCR said in a statement based on survivors' testimony. "The attack on the (internally displaced people) occurred as they were returning to their homes from Pissila, hoping for an improved security situation there," the…
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Sep
03
2020
By The African Mirror
Seven killed in suicide bomb attack in northern Cameroon village

Seven killed in suicide bomb attack in northern Cameroon village

NEWS
AT least seven people were killed and 14 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack in a village hosting internally displaced people in Cameroon's Far North region, the second of such attack in a month, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday. The attack on Tuesday took place in Goldavi, close to the border with Nigeria, where some 18,000 people fleeing the violent insurgency, had sought refuge. "We are horrified by these senseless attacks on people who have been torn from their villages, fleeing violence perpetrated by armed gangs which rage in the region, only to be stripped of…
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Sep
01
2020
By The African Mirror
Locked out by COVID, refugees’ lives on hold

Locked out by COVID, refugees’ lives on hold

COVID-19
EDWARD MCALLISTER WHEN Michelle Alfaro left her office at the United Nations in Geneva on March 13, her job finding homes for the world’s most vulnerable refugees was under control. Four days later, the new coronavirus had knocked it into chaos. Governments across the world announced border closures, lockdowns and flight cancellations. The United Nations was forced to suspend the programme. “Everything collapsed that week,” said Alfaro, who manages resettlements for the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR. Millions of people have been thrown into limbo by the new coronavirus. Those Alfaro works with had been promised escape from war, violence, conflict…
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Aug
19
2020
By The African Mirror
At least 45 African migrants die off Libya in worst shipwreck of 2020 -UN

At least 45 African migrants die off Libya in worst shipwreck of 2020 -UN

NEWS
AT least 45 African migrants and refugees have perished in the Mediterranean Sea in the largest recorded shipwreck off the Libyan coast this year, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday. The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in a statement disclosing Monday's accident, called for stepping up search and rescue capacity to respond to distress calls. "Some 37 survivors, mainly from Senegal, Mali, Chad and Ghana, were rescued by local fishermen and later detained upon disembarkation," the statement said. "They reported to IOM staff that 45 others, including five children, lost their lives when the vessel's…
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Aug
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Around 40 migrants drown in shipwreck off Mauritanian coast

Around 40 migrants drown in shipwreck off Mauritanian coast

NEWS
A boat carrying around 40 migrants and refugees has sunk off the coast of Mauritania, leaving only one survivor, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR. The perilous sea passage from West Africa to the Canary Islands was once a major route for migrants seeking jobs and a better life in Europe. Attempts became scarcer when Spain stepped up patrols in the mid-2000s, but the route is seeing a fresh surge. "New shipwreck off the coast of Nouadhibou #Mauritania of approximately 40 persons on board, there is one survivor (from Guinea)," tweeted UNHCR special envoy Vincent Cochetel. UNHCR "along…
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Jul
31
2020
By The African Mirror
Half of violence against African migrants is by law enforcers, UN says

Half of violence against African migrants is by law enforcers, UN says

NEWS
CECILE MANTOVANI NEARLY  half of all the violence visited on African migrants during their journey to the Mediterranean coast is perpetrated by law enforcers, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has said. According to a report by UNHCR and the Danish Refugee Council's Mixed Migration Centre (MMC), thousands of refugees and migrants suffer extreme abuse including torture and sexual or gender-based violence, and in some cases death. The report is based on nearly 16,000 interviews with refugees and migrants. "In 47% of the cases, the victims reported the perpetrators of violence are law enforcement authorities, whereas in the past, we…
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