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South African soldiers apprehend illegal migrants from Zimbabwe

Securitising Africa’s borders is bad for migrants, democracy, and development

5 July 2017

Ramped-up border controls in Africa are only likely to make more people want to migrate

Analysis

New study points the finger at “anthropogenic warming"
6 February 2017
Three years of dry weather have left millions hungry in Ethiopia and southern Africa. How much blame falls on human-driven global warming?
Feature

Top Picks: Nauru, Lebanon, Haiti, the Hague and Geneva
21 October 2016
This week's recommended reading from IRIN's editors.

As AIDS money shrinks, who loses?
21 July 2016 Analysis
Go South young man: migration in the developing world
23 April 2016 Analysis
Southern Africa’s food crisis in numbers
28 January 2016 Analysis

Analysis

Unwanted: El Niño and Africa in 2016
23 December 2015
El Niño is the largely unwanted Christmas gift – a warming of the tropical Pacific causing drought and floods that will peak at the end...
News

Counting the money
14 December 2015
The rejoicing and back-slapping at the conclusion at the weekend of the Paris climate summit extended even to the African delegations. Historically sidelined, they had...
Feature

Southern Africa's food crisis
4 December 2015
Close to 29 million people in southern Africa are already facing food shortages as a result of this season’s poor harvest, but worse could be...
News

Need asylum in South Africa? Pay a bribe
22 July 2015
In South Africa, asylum seekers and refugees in need of documentation often have no choice but to pay for it. So says a new report...
Analysis

Regional alarm grows at Burundi crisis
14 July 2015
Burundi’s political crisis is centred on a leader who is refusing to leave office after almost 10 years. The man sent in to mediate has...
News

Lawyers see ‘xenophobia’ detainees
15 May 2015
Human rights lawyers are interviewing hundreds of migrants rounded up last week in night raids by South African police, trying to ascertain if they should...

Tough homecoming for Zimbabwean migrants fleeing xenophobia
27 April 2015 News
South Africa’s xenophobia problem: dispelling the myths
21 April 2015 Analysis
Killing us softly
27 March 2015 Analysis
Ebola and HIV: how to change behaviour for the long term
20 March 2015 Analysis
Three words of advice for WHO Africa's new chief
24 February 2015 Analysis
Who celebrity advocates are really targeting. And it’s not you.
13 February 2015 Analysis

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