July 11, 2024
?? We don’t have to repay UK for axed deal – Rwanda
Rwanda has said it is not required to refund the UK after a multi-million pound migrant deal between the two countries was scrapped. New UK Prime Minister…
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Category: Refugees & Immigration
July 8, 2024
Statement on the Publication of the United Nations Group of Experts Report on Uganda’s Support to M23 Backed by Rwanda
The current humanitarian crisis caused by M23 could have been prevented if the United Nations had acted in 2019 when we first raised the alarm. We learned from…
April 24, 2024
East Congo – the perpetual humanitarian catastrophe continues:The never-ending war targets mainly the civilian population by Peter Küpfer
Before our very eyes yet another humani- tarian catastrophe unfolds in East Congo. Many alarming reports from the region it- self prove this. Thematter-of-fact eyewit- ness account of…
April 24, 2024
Visit to Bulengo IDP Camps: Addressing the Plight of Twa/Pygmies
On Sunday, April 21, 2024, our team visited two groups at the Bulengo IDP camps near Goma, North Kivu, including the Catholic Community. On our way back, we…
April 24, 2024
The US Did Not Fail to Intervene in Rwanda
The U.S. kept the U.N. Security Council from sending in troops to stop the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. 17 Apr 2024 – The most widespread and pernicious myth about…
April 24, 2024
Myanmar Activist Zarni Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Questions Award’s Legacy
‘I was very happy but of course that is not to say that I see a Nobel Peace Prize as something that is perfect.’ 20 Apr 2024 –…
April 8, 2024
Israeli Army War Crime against Aid Workers Could Have Killed Me
Delivering aid is a dangerous business. Before the tragic assassination of the seven World Central Kitchen staff, a lot of aid workers have died while on mission. If…
April 8, 2024
April 6, 1994: RWANDA’S DAY OF INFAMY A personal reflection by Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Today, thirty years ago, I attended a Pan-African Movement conference in Kampala, Uganda. Later that night, as I prepared to go to sleep, I tuned in to the…
April 8, 2024
Eric Nshimiye, Another Rwandan American Facing Trial in Another Rwandan Witch Hunt
From Ann Garrison – Black Agenda Report 3 Apr 2024 – The totalitarian state of Rwanda is guilty of many forms of transnational repression, including the lawfare exemplified…
April 7, 2024
The Unremarkable Death of Migrants in the Sahara Desert
Sabah, Libya, is an oasis town at the northern edge of the Sahara Desert. To stand at the edge of the town and look southward into the desert…
March 22, 2024
Transitional Justice (Part 56): Rohingya the Voiceless, Stateless Refugees
Introduction 15 Mar 2024 – It is natural to have questions about how this paper on transitional justice fits into the series of 56 articles. The author has…
March 5, 2024
Investigations of Attacks on the Eritrean Diaspora Are Underway
February 17 Eritrean Independence Day Celebration in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event was attacked by violent protestors who threw bricks at police and set a tractor trailer on…
March 5, 2024
Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti
How can I hold the knowledge of unspeakable horrors happening far away and not explode inside? How can I sit in my modest but comfortable home, refrigerator well…
January 24, 2024
The Middle East and North Africa
In 2024, 12 percent of “forcibly displaced and stateless people” are expected to be from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, said the United Nations. This…
November 22, 2023
Deadly Diseases Stalk Millions in War-Torn Sudan
As the war in Sudan continues into its eighth month with no ceasefire in sight, cholera stalks millions in Africa’s third-largest country. The nation’s already fragile healthcare system…
August 21, 2023
Moving From Trauma to Healing: Practicing Self-Care in Refugee Camps
A Rohingya woman tells a forum of peer counselors the story of her divorce. A survivor of domestic abuse, she has started a new life alone with…
September 26, 2022
Survivors Uncensored: Voices from Rwanda and the Rwandan Diaspora
Most reporting on the Rwandan 1994 atrocities was false and driven by the Clinton administration’s need to hide its culpability. The book Survivors Uncensored allows Rwandans to tell…
June 3, 2022
US Threatens Ethiopia and Eritrea with Illegal “Legal Designation of Genocide”
25 May 2022 – The US is falsely accusing Ethiopia and Eritrea of hindering food aid and committing genocides in the ongoing war in Tigray. The charges are false…
April 4, 2022
South Sudan: Oil Underground, Blood on the Surface
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service 29 Mar 2022 – While several politicians -and media– have been viewing the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan…
March 23, 2022
Belgium : Thierry Michel • Director of Empire of Silence
“We can’t just stand back and watch forever, without saying or doing anything” by Aurore Engelen 19/01/2022 – The director uses his documentary to look back on 25 years of…
September 27, 2021
Biden Threatens Sweeping Sanctions on Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Responds
22 Sep 2021 – The U.S. is once again attempting to overthrow a legitimate head of state in Africa, this time in Ethiopia, where they want to put their…
September 22, 2021
Despite dire conditions, U.S. deports Haitians
By G. Dunkel An Aug. 14 earthquake completely devastated southwestern Haiti, the country’s breadbasket. At least 2,200 people were killed, and tens of thousands of homes destroyed, along with roads,…
August 10, 2021
Crisis In Ethiopia: What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the War In Tigray
The Western media has largely cheered on the TPLF and demonized the Ethiopian government and its allies, with allegations of ethnic cleansing, intentional famine and even genocide. The US has…
August 3, 2021
Defining Refugees in the Era of Climate Displacement
27 Jul 2021 – July 28th marks the 70th anniversary of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This historic document, signed by 149 nation-states, defines refugees as those with a…
May 8, 2021
Refugee doctor chronicles Tigray’s pain as he treats it By CARA ANNA
HAMDAYET, Sudan (AP) — He is a surgeon and a father. Every morning, he wakes up under a plastic tarp and is reminded he’s now a refugee, too.…