Divide on African asylum centres
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Plans to set up EU asylum processing centres in North Africa provoked deep divisions yesterday, but more limited UN-backed moves to boost co-operation with five governments in the region won broad backing.
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CAIRO, EGYPTâTwo old friends in Sudan fled for their lives this spring, separately, each powerless to aid the other&#39;s migration north to Egypt, where they both sought refuge.
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South Africa investigates reports that 137 delegates to an Aids forum in Canada are seeking asylum.
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African regional leaders gather Wednesday, in Tanzania for a summit on Burundi&#39;s peace process, but the recent massacre of Congolese Tutsi in a UN refugee camp is expected to be high on the agenda.
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BELIEL CAMP, Sudan -- Dinka men once danced in a green field here in Darfur. A weave of drum rhythms would rise with the smoke of their twilight bonfires. The men would form a tight line with their spears, honoring their lost homeland in war-scattered southern Sudan and chanting praise for the peace they had found as refugees.
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An African summit went on into the night on Tuesday as the leaders struggled to forge a consensus and avoid a public split over moves to unite the continent under one federal government.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 14 (IPS) - Proposals to build centres for asylum-seekers  outside the EU will be back on the table at the next European  summit in Brussels Nov. 5.
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South Africa investigates reports that 137 female delegates to an Aids forum in Canada are seeking asylum.
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Â· Kibaki put on defensive by Odinga's yes to mediation  Â· African Union head due to arrive to help end turmoil
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On the eve of a high-profile UN Security Council visit to Nairobi, members are split over a draft resolution on atrocities in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region.
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France and Spain called for a rethink yesterday on radical German-Italian plans to set up a European Union transit camp in north Africa for refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
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(CPOD) Aug. 26, 2004 - Adults in Zimbabwe are divided over the performance of Robert Mugabe, according to the Afrobarometer conducted by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Ghanaâs Centre for
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GENEVA -- As many as 10,000 refugees from Sudan's Darfur region are dying from disease and violence every month in the teeming camps where they have taken refuge, UN health agency officials said yesterday. European Union foreign ministers called yesterday for the United Nations to ''immediately investigate&quot; whether atrocities by the government-backed ethnic Arab militias against the region's black African ...
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African leaders struggled on Tuesday to avoid a damaging split over moves to unite the continent under one federal government.
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Dispersal of asylum seekers to seven areas of England has been suspended this year amid fears of rising tensions.
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ABOU GOULEM, Chad  - Muslim tribesmen in east Chad hope EU peacekeepers will shelter their families from civil war and ethnic conflict, but memories of colonial rule have left them wary of Western meddling in their affairs.
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FLORENCE, Italy  - France and Spain moved Monday  to sink a controversial Italian-German plan to create holding  centers in North Africa for would-be refugees.