The African Center for Strategic Studies reports that conflicts continue to drive record levels of population displacement in Africa. The continent's 36 million forcibly displaced persons represent 44% of the global total.
The OTB Foundation of designer and entrepreneur Renzo Rosso -- co-founder of the Diesel brand -- and the UN refugee agency have announced a partnership for the construction of a new school in Mozambique. The initiative is part of the "Instant Network Schools" program for the education of refugee children.
The director of the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Coordination Office for the Mediterranean has denounced that disasters were responsible for 30.7 million newly internally displaced people in 149 countries this year alone. More than 98% of these movements were the result of risks linked to meteorological phenomena.
Malaria remained the leading cause of disease among refugees in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Young children in sub-Saharan Africa are especially vulnerable to the mosquito-borne disease.
In 2015, it was reported that a man fell from a plane into the streets of West London. The man, Carlito Vale, died as he hit the ground. But with him was another man, who survived. Documentary filmmaker Rich Bentley has made it "his mission" to find out more.
Police and immigration authorities have discovered 64 bodies and 14 survivors in the back of a truck in Mozambique. The people are believed to be migrants from Ethiopia hoping to reach South Africa.
One of the less common but most dangerous routes taken for the purposes of irregular migration is as a stowaway passenger on an aircraft. However, these journeys typically tend to result in one-way tickets to only one destination: death.