Shelter Centre

Date: 18 Jun 2010
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Ziguinchor (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has today started distributing food and essential household goods to displaced persons in the village of Baraf on the outskirts of Ziguinchor, Casamance.

Source: IRIN More than 60 Dakar schools are still flooded, and as the academic year begins in Senegal people displaced by flooding are still sheltering in at least another 18 schools. Post-flood clean-up operations are under way but some Dakar residents say they are frustrated by what they say is the government's slow response.

Date: 05 Oct 2009
Source: Voice of America

Date: 05 Sep 2009
Source: Xinhua

DAKAR Wednesday, May 13, 2009 (IRIN) - Several industrialised countries, including Spain, the United Kingdom and Italy, are cutting foreign worker migration quotas, which migration experts call a “mistake” for the economies of both developing and industrialised countries.

Source: UNHCR The number of Mauritanian refugees helped home from Senegal with assistance from UNHCR after years in exile tops the 10,000 mark.

The number of Mauritanian refugees helped home from Senegal with assistance from UNHCR after years in exile tops the 10,000 mark.

Source: IRIN Scores of youths are hiding in the bush near Kédougou, southeastern Senegal, having fled the town following riots and mass arrests by police. A Senegal-based human rights group, RADDHO, has said security forces wrongfully arrested and "tortured" citizens after protests over poor living conditions in the mineral-rich area turned violent.

Mauritanian refugees receive good news as Mauritanian authorities move closer to granting national ID papers to returnees from countries like Senegal.

Source: IRIN Dozens of young Mauritanians recently repatriated from Senegal are crossing back over into long-time refugee communities because schools in Mauritania are not ready to take them in, according to the youths.