Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was born in Tanzania, has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee."
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.
Lawyers working with the German Foreign Office have allegedly revealed the sexual identity of gay, lesbian and bisexual refugees to their home countries. The Lesbian and Gay Association of Germany (LSVD) referred to these instances as "human rights abuse" that has to be stopped immediately.
The organisation Human Rights Watch denounced that authorities in Tanzania have threatened and forced many of the 163,000 Burundian refugees and asylum seekers in the country to leave.
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.
The IOM reports that a project co-funded by the EU has enabled 300 Ethiopians to return voluntarily from Tanzania in June.
About 355,000 refugees from Burundi and DR Congo live in western Tanzania, where they are barred from working or setting foot outside their makeshift camps. The conditions are "miserable," as Prosper Kwigize reports.
Since the beginning of the so-called refugee crisis, Europe has been busy taking care of matters at home. Not much attention is paid to around 16 million refugees on the African continent. The UNHCR reported recently that there are more than ever before. Their situation is often catastrophic, as the example of Burundian refugees in Tanzania shows. A report by Linda Staude for ARD.