Migration

War and peace – Mali repeats the cycle

BAMAKO, 29 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - During a visit to Bamako, capital of Mali, on 26 February, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé observed that the Malian government would be best advised to sit down and negotiate with the MNLA (Mouvement National pour la liberation de l’Azawad), which is fighting to carve out an independent state in the north. full report

UGANDA: HIV services in western refugee camps overwhelmed

 ISINGIRO, 29 March 2012 (PlusNews Global) - Health workers manning five health centres in two refugee camps in the southwestern Ugandan district of Isingiro say they are overwhelmed by the high number of refugees and local residents in need of HIV services. full report

MYANMAR: What next for the Rohingyas?

 BANGKOK, 29 March 2012 (IRIN Asia) - As Myanmar gears up for a by-election on 1 April, experts and community leaders are divided over what the ongoing reforms may hold for the Rohingya people, a stateless Muslim ethnic group living in the country’s Northern Rakhine State. full report

Briefing: Myanmar’s ethnic problems

 MAE SOT, 29 March 2012 (IRIN Asia) - Mutual distrust, power struggles and tension over the hoarding of resources, including gold, gems and timber, have characterized the long history between the rulers of Myanmar - primarily of Burman background - and the many other smaller ethnic groups that comprise this Southeast Asian nation of more than 50 million. full report

CLIMATE CHANGE: A three-degree warmer world by 2050?

 JOHANNESBURG, 27 March 2012 (IRIN Global) - The apocalyptic vision presented on cinema screens of a world devoid of food (Hunger Games) or with too much water (Waterworld) as a result of climate change, is not as far-fetched as some may think. full report

Analysis: Has the Refugee Convention outlived its usefulness?

 JOHANNESBURG, 26 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - Can an international convention drafted 60 years ago to protect a limited number of Europeans uprooted by World War II continue to provide protection to the millions of people around the world today forced to flee their countries for a variety of reasons? full report

MIGRATION: Too many migrant children locked up

 JOHANNESBURG, 21 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - Arun*, a refugee from Myanmar, was just eight when he was arrested by immigration authorities in Malaysia and taken to a detention camp where he spent five months separated from his mother and six-year-old sister. full report

MIGRATION: Australia to enact uniform asylum process

 BANGKOK, 20 March 2012 (IRIN Global) - Rights groups have welcomed a decisionby the Australian government to process all asylum-seekers in the same way, regardless of how they arrived in the country. full report

SIERRA LEONE: Land deals beginning to stir discontent

 FREETOWN, 20 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - In southeastern Sierra Leone’s Pujehun District, the small village of Kortumahun sits at the edge of orderly rows of hundreds of thousands of bright green palm oil seedlings. Small groups of women weed the pots while men spray fertilizers and pesticides across the nursery. full report

KENYA: Conflict fears as wildfires destroy pasture, cause displacement

 ISIOLO, 20 March 2012 (IRIN Africa) - Wildfires have destroyed large tracts of grassland in northern Kenya, giving rise to fears of conflict between pastoralist communities amid an already serious food security crisis. full report

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