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

January 12, 2017 News

UNHCR and the African Development Bank call for solidarity with forcibly displaced populations in Africa

The Bank organized a two-day forum in Abidjan to explore, among other issues, how to better support countries affected by displacements of populations.

July 15, 2016 News

UNHCR, the Ivorian Government and the governments of asylum countries pledge to strengthen their efforts in the search of durable solutions for the Ivorian refugees.

Some 40,000 refugees still remain in exile in West Africa

July 12, 2016 News

Towards Durable Solutions for Ivorian Refugees in West Africa

HCR organizes a regional meeting in Abidjan from 12 to 14 July

February 24, 2016 Multimedia

From stateless to having a nationality: the story of Mamadou

Now an Ivorian citizen, the 59-year-old man finally feels he belongs to a nation

Voices of Refugees in West and Central Africa

Côte d’Ivoire