Congolese Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/congolese/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Congolese Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/congolese/ 32 32 Refugee numbers swell as court action to move them looms https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/refugee-numbers-swell-as-court-action-to-move-them-looms/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/refugee-numbers-swell-as-court-action-to-move-them-looms/ With a court action looming designed to get them moved, protestors sitting-in outside offices of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees has increased in  number. Ten portals have been provided and they have pitched later tents on the pavements. The residents associations of Brooklyn and Waterkloof are seeking a court order forcing the Tshwane […]

The post Refugee numbers swell as court action to move them looms appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.

]]> With a court action looming designed to get them moved, protestors sitting-in outside offices of the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees has increased in  number.

Ten portals have been provided and they have pitched later tents on the pavements.

The residents associations of Brooklyn and Waterkloof are seeking a court order forcing the Tshwane Metropolitan authority, South African Police Service and Department of Home Affairs to move the refugees.

More than 600 mainly Congolese citizens are involved in the protest that has lasted more than three weeks.

Residents say the the refugees pose health and security risks.

The UNHCR says moving them is a complex matter that has to take its place with hundreds of thousands of other refugees in need of help around the world.

The post Refugee numbers swell as court action to move them looms appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.

]]> Refugees escaping xenophobic attacks in South Africa say they will go where the United Nations sends them https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/refugees-escaping-xenophobic-attacks-in-south-africa-say-they-will-go-where-the-united-nations-sends-them/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/refugees-escaping-xenophobic-attacks-in-south-africa-say-they-will-go-where-the-united-nations-sends-them/ Congolese citizens sitting outside the Pretoria office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees say they have no say about where they are moved to escape xenophobic attacks in South Africa. They will go to any country the United Nations decides is safe for them. Compatriots in Cape Town of the demonstrating Congolese refugees […]

The post Refugees escaping xenophobic attacks in South Africa say they will go where the United Nations sends them appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.

]]> Congolese citizens sitting outside the Pretoria office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees say they have no say about where they are moved to escape xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

They will go to any country the United Nations decides is safe for them.

Compatriots in Cape Town of the demonstrating Congolese refugees has asked to be sent to a Australia, New Zealand or Canada.

In Pretoria, spokesman for the organization Women and Children in Crisis Alex Nkoy says they’re in no position to make any requests.

Asked if they would go to Rwanda, which is currently taking in African would-be migrants held in Libyan detention centers, Nkoy says they will go where the UNHCR decides to send them. 

The post Refugees escaping xenophobic attacks in South Africa say they will go where the United Nations sends them appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.

]]>