The Norwegian Refugee Council is calling on countries of the African Union to fully enact the Kampala Convention to provide protection and assistance to internally displaced persons, following the African Union summit.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the University of Bologna have signed a memorandum of understanding to create "university corridors" between Ethiopia and Italy to give refugee students the chance to continue their studies in Italy.
Hundreds of people continue to pour out of Eritrea every day into neighboring Ethiopia. The reopening of the border in September and the peace deal ending two decades of war have raised hopes in some quarters of an improved human rights situation in Eritrea. But the head of the world's largest Muslim charity, Naser Haghamed, who fled the country as a young teenager, worries that it will be crippled by the ongoing exodus.
A boat carrying 25 migrants that departed from Libya in an attempt to reach Europe was adrift on the Mediterranean for almost two weeks. More than half of the passengers died of thirst and starvation.
The International Organization for Migration facilitated the return of 418 migrants from Yemen with the first voluntary repatriation flight from the country in more than three years.
In the past two years, school-age migrant and refugee children have missed a combined 1.5 billion days of school, according to a new report by the UNESCO. While there have been positive developments in the inclusion of refugees and migrants in the classroom, there is still vast room for improvement.
The border agencies of eight countries in the East and Horn of Africa have committed to the establishment of ''inter-agency cross-border technical working groups'' to facilitate the management of migrant flows, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said it obtained the release of 67 irregular Ethiopian migrants detained in Tanzania, who were repatriated to Ethiopia thanks to the cooperation between the two governments and the UN agency.
A total of 76 Ethiopians stranded in Libya returned to their country through a voluntary repatriation program of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). It was the highest number of people repatriated from Libya so far.
The Norwegian Refugee Council has denounced that Ethiopia is at the center of one of the ''fastest growing displacement crises in the world'' due to violence with an estimated 978,000 people who were forced to flee their homes since mid-April.
The IOM reports that a project co-funded by the EU has enabled 300 Ethiopians to return voluntarily from Tanzania in June.