50 years of OAU’s refugee pact

Also, in many cases, refugees’ countries of origin and countries of asylums are members of the same regional and sub-regional groupings. For example, Burundi, S Sudan are the members of the EAC as Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda that host refugees from Burundi and S Sudan. DRC, Tanzania, Zambia are all members of the SADC, and Zambia and Tanzania host refugees from DRC. These two realities present an opportunity for the African countries to come up with approaches that would complement the traditional durable solutions to refugees. The commendable roles of the regional integrations and individual member countries in finding peace in the other member states, which prevents the outflow of refugees and pave the way for voluntary repatriations, is recognized. In the current protracted refugee situations, these regional blocks should also find a better way of dealing with those refugees who are not yet able to return to help them rebuild their lives.

50 years of OAU’s refugee pact

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