From the IBPP Research Associates. Eritrea/Ethiopia: Pan African News Agency

This article - Ethiopia, Eritrea Fighting Enters Sixth Day. February 11, 1999 by a staff writer of the Pan African News Agency (PANA) - provides a report that organization. It was submitted anonymously, and it has been provided here with permission. The article discusses the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea. IBPP commentary expands the scope of the article, discussing Western uses of resources in the prevention of political violence in Europe but not Africa

Unspoken inequality: How COVID-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in South Africa

An estimated 2 million foreign-born migrants of working age (15-64) were living in South Africa (SA) in 2017. Structural and practical xenophobia has driven asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in SA to abject poverty and misery. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) containment measures adopted by the SA government through the lockdown of the nation have tremendously deepened the unequal treatment of asylum-seekers and refugees in SA. This can be seen through the South African government's lack of consideration of this marginalized population in economic, poverty, and hunger alleviation schemes. Leaving this category of our society out of the national response safety nets may lead to negative coping strategies causing mental health issues and secondary health concerns. An effective response to the socioeconomic challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic should consider the economic and health impact of the pandemic on asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants

IBPP Research Associates: Zambia

The article - Refugees Hamper Zambia\u27s Polio Eradication Drive by Lewis Mwanangombe, Pan African News Agency (PANA) Correspondent - was originally published on August 25, 1999 Africa News Online at http://www.africanews.org. The full text of the article may be found on the reliefweb website at https://reliefweb.int/report/angola/refugees-hamper-zambias-polio-eradication-drive. The article discusses obstacles in the eradication of polio in Zambia by the year 2000

The transformation of lieux de mémoire: the Nyabarongo River in Rwanda, 1992-2009

This article takes the Nyabarongo river as a lens through which to tentatively reflect on the transformation of lieux de memoire in post-genocide Rwanda in the period 1992–2009. It is culled from a larger, multi-year project on the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of collective memory in Rwanda that revolves around a systematic, historical, and spatial analysis of the hundreds of genocide memorials, informal and otherwise, that have been created - and some that have disappeared - in the last fifteen years