Who Deserves to Emigrate? Mapping the Loopholes at the Africa-Italy Summit of 2024
Just as young Italians aspire to migrate elsewhere because their country fails to meet their needs, so do Nigerians, Gambians, Congolese, Somalis.
Climate Violence and Mobility in Zimbabwe: Survival for Domboshava Community Residents
In the peri-urban community of Domboshava in Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe, a community 30 km away from Harare. Its people are heavily impacted by the effects of climate violence and mobility.
Voices Unheard: Women, Education, & the Battle Against United Kingdom's New Migration Policy
In September 2022, Akaniro arrived at Cambridge, UK, alongside her family to pursue a postgraduate degree in Public Policy. If she had waited a year longer, she would have found herself in a difficult situation of choosing between studying in the UK.
Away from Home: Ghana's Homophobia Employs a Calculated Media War
They did not catch me having sex or in any compromising position. Someone asked me, no, accused me, of being homosexual, and I said, 'Yes, that I was homosexual.' And the school suspended me.
African Migrant Labourers in the Middle East: A Need for Right-Based Humanitarian Intervention
Penal sections should be metered out as punishment for those who violate these laws because the proper treatment of migrant workers essentially touches on their fundamental human rights.
The Wet Grave of the Mediterranean: Why are African Migrants & Refugees Dying?
Official reports show that thousands of migrants and asylum seekers lose their lives or disappear every day in the Mediterranean and the Northwest African routes.
Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel are Facing Attack While Demanding Good Governance
These forced displacements, be it through colonization, neocolonialism, or geopolitical conflicts, have left countless Africans in a state of uncertainty, searching for safe havens and opportunities elsewhere.
The Realities of Migrant West African Healthcare Professionals Navigating the United Kingdom's Medical Landscape
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated that healthcare vacancies in the United Kingdom's health and social care sector rose to 217,000 between July and September 2022.
Africans are Emigrating into the Cultural Disconnection & Loneliness that They Can't Control
Almost 20 million Africans are reported to be living outside the continent as of 2020, yet the experiences documented above are only a drop in the ocean of countless others. There are many more who in the quest to make it out of the continent lose their lives in the desert and on the sea.
Mixed Fortunes for 68,320 African Students that Travel to the UK for Study
In Africa, the hope of an undisrupted academic period is wishful thinking for many African students, hence, the strikes fuelling the drive of the continent’s youth to seek education outside their homeland, but the pursuit of a better-standardized education in Western countries like the United Kingdom is mixed fortunes.