CategoriesMigrant News NarrativesAfrican women are moving across countries, across borders, and across personal boundaries, rewriting stories of strength, skill, and social change. Uganda, known for its progressive stance on regional integration and open-door policies under frameworks like the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the AU’s Free Movement Protocol, has become a fertile ground where many […]
CategoriesMigrant NewsKenya has an estimated 3 to 4 million citizens living abroad, with sizable communities in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries—including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar—where thousands of Africans are engaged in domestic work, construction, and service industries. These countries have been known to be drawn, directly or indirectly, into broader Middle East conflicts. […]
CategoriesMigrant NewsThe Diaspora Technical Working Group (DTWG), which brings together Kenyan professionals from across the globe, is engaging key government ministries and parastatals in a bid to anchor diaspora voices in national decision-making and development. A powerful coalition of over 100 Kenyan diaspora leaders has launched a nationwide campaign in Kenya, calling for full voting rights […]
CategoriesMigrant NewsKenya hosts over 600,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers, with many more undocumented migrants living and working in Nairobi’s Eastleigh, Kawangware, Githurai, and other informal neighborhoods. While Kenya’s public healthcare system has made strides in providing free contraceptives, access remains limited or non-existent for many in these migrant communities. Sayana Press (DMPA-SC), a self-injectable contraceptive, has […]
CategoriesMigrant NewsCameroon is now the world’s most neglected displacement crisis, according to a new report from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). “Decision makers must recognise that displacement isn’t a distant crisis; it’s a shared responsibility which cannot be ignored” – NRC A new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), released two days ago, has once […]
CategoriesNarrativesIn countries like Bahrain and Qatar, where gambling is outlawed under Islamic law, a growing number of African migrants are risking it all—not in casinos or betting shops, but behind closed doors and on smartphone screens, navigating restrictions using VPNs and foreign betting apps. Migrant Narratives Africa speaks to three East Africans living both in […]
CategoriesMigrant NewsKenya’s former Justice Minister Martha Karua, former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, along with civil society actors Hussein Khalid and Hanifa Adan were denied entry at Julius Nyerere International Airport earlier this week. Kenyan human rights activists, including a former justice minister, were denied entry to Tanzania over the weekend and on Monday 19, as they […]
CategoriesMigrant NewsBorn in Argentina, and being the first Latin American elected as Pope in over 1,300 years, Pope Francis made caring for migrants a hallmark of his papacy. Across his 12 years of service, he was constantly vocal on the issue of migration further advocating for fairer and better migration policies, human dignity and upholding of […]
CategoriesNarratives“I realized these may not be very comfortable conversations to have, so I started with the people I went to the gym with. We would meet in my house, and just talk. I created that safe space for women to open up because I knew if they can remove their shoes, they can open their […]
CategoriesNarrativesI spent hours browsing the internet for details about the company to no avail. Kennedy was nowhere to be found; our agent in Kenya kept reassuring us that we would soon find jobs. Whenever he called me, he changed his tone, and became more aggressive and threatening. He threatened to have us deported, so we […]
