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

August 23, 2017 News

Au Sénégal, les réfugiés mauritaniens invités à un exercice de vérification et mise à jour des données

Le HCR, l’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés, lance un exercice de vérification et de mise à jour des données des réfugiés mauritaniens établis dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal

March 3, 2017 Multimedia

Being ready for emergencies with UNHCR training

Forty aid workers gathered in Thies, Senegal, for 10 days of practical lectures and simulation exercises

January 24, 2017 Stories

As Gambia crisis passes, displaced return from Senegal

Several thousand people have returned to the Gambia since ex-president Yahya Jammeh ceded power.

January 20, 2017 News

Some 45,000 people have fled uncertainty in Gambia as tension mounts

It is feared that more people may continue to leave as the situation remains tense