The number of people forcibly displaced or stateless across West and Central Africa has reached a record 12.7 million, ...

Andrew CurielDeputy Political CounselorNew York, New YorkJune 9, 2025AS DELIVEREDThank you, Madam President. And thank you, SRSG Abarry and ECCAS President Da Piedade Verissimo, for your report and ...

Legislative and local elections in Burundi on June 5, 2025, took place in a context of severely restricted free speech and ...

General Michael Langley, head of U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM), said that there is a need for local capacity-building and reduced reliance on U.S. forces. This shift marked a departure from previous ...

According to UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report released today, there were 122.1 million forcibly displaced people by the end of April 2025.

The halls of academia have long been considered sanctuaries of critical thinking, intellectual discourse, and the pursuit of ...

Nearly 1 million people from eight countries with high asylum recognition rates were offered entry permits into 38 destination countries via work, family and study permits between 2019 and 2023, ...

The number of people who have fled Sudan since the beginning of its civil war in 2023 has surpassed four million, U.N.

"Several passports were recovered at the scene which appear to be from the Republic of Mali" in northwest Africa, police Superintendent Junior Simmons said Wednesday. "The remains were in an ...

Ten years of crisis have exacerbated conflict between herders and farmers in the Central African Republic. But reduced insecurity, coupled with warmer relations with Chad, gives Bangui an ...

The White House meeting came about a week after the Trump administration welcomed a group of white South Africans to the United States as refugees, after they claimed they were persecuted in their ...

At least 67,000 South Africans have shown interest in seeking refugee status in the US, according to the South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA (SACCUSA). In comments justifying his decision ...