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The African refugee crisis: A crisis for whom?

Rich countries who complain of a refugee crisis now spend billions to keep refugees from their borders. But the real crisis is not theirs. It is more of a crisis for the low and middle-income countries which host most refugees. But the real and most palpable crisis is for refugees themselves.

They are the people surviving life-threatening insecurity and destitution, with damaged physical and mental health, due to the greed and selfishness of the first world; the world which controls international finance so that Africa spends more in servicing its debt than it does in educating and caring for its children.

Even the small amount of face-saving ‘development aid’ has been slashed and the UN body established to help refugees, UNHCR, is so short of funds that it has closed offices and reduced or cancelled real help in terms of subsistence and access to education and health care.

Assistance to Oromo and other refugees in Egypt, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia and Yemen has been reduced or stopped altogether. Corruption in government bodies and UNHCR has compounded their problems in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa.

Governments of these countries are complicit in the hostility which meets refugees.

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Part 3
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Part 2

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