West Africa: Ensuring effective alternatives to dangerous journeys

Strengthening protection and solutions for refugees and asylum seekers in West Africa is critical in response to mixed migratory flows.

November 5, 2017 News

West Africa mobilized to ensure that everyone has the right to a nationality

One million people are stateless or at risk of statelessness in West Africa, essentially because of gaps in nationality laws and obstacles in administrative procedures to establish proof of nationality

October 27, 2017 News

Over 500 Togolese seek refuge in Ghana

UNHCR is working with Ghanaian authorities to support over 500 recently arrived Togolese asylum-seekers, fleeing the recent political unrest in their country

March 2, 2016 Stories

On the way to resettlement

Fears and Hopes of a Central African Refugee