Mamadou Diop 
Ndengar Masbé 
Ange Banouwin 
Tamaltan Inès Sikngaye 
Youssouf Abdoulaye Haidara Dialogue Migration
Pan-African information platform on migration in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Since Saturday 2 May 2026, the province of KwaZulu-Natal has seen targeted violence against foreign nationals. Behind barricaded shops and daily fear, the 5,000 to 10,000 Senegalese who live in the region are trying to organise and get through a crisis that keeps returning. Daily life under shadow of terror in Durban In Durban, the …
Leaving your country is never trivial. When forced, it becomes an ordeal that fractures a life in many ways. Some people migrate by choice; others have no option but to go. For the latter, every step into the unknown cuts deep. The pain is dull, sometimes invisible, but it lodges in the mind. To leave …
As migration increasingly shapes economic and social life in West Africa, a common language to understand it becomes essential. In Benin, the National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INStaD) sets the benchmarks. Through a series of precise definitions, the institute helps harmonise analysis, read the data better and inform public policy. Two ideas sit at …
Recent migration news reveals contrasting dynamics, between regulation, cooperation and control. In Senegal, circular migration to Spain takes shape around new recruitment. Mali strengthens its legal framework and its voice in international talks. Chad turns to the links between climate and mobility, while Morocco steps up its fight against irregular departures. In the Democratic Republic …
The Mediterranean no longer washes up only debris and bodies; it is starting to wash up evidence. This spring of 2026, the silence around Frontex’s operations is cracking in the French courts. Frontex began as a small coordination agency and grew into a military power with 10,000 guards. Now it must answer for its choices …
Issoufou Issaka teaches physical education (PE) and coaches volleyball at the West African level. He founded his own gym in Niamey after watching sedentary habits and chronic illness take hold among his colleagues. Training in Germany shaped his approach: he favours “sport for health” and technical ingenuity over expensive equipment. He faces real constraints, from …
Since Saturday 2 May 2026, the province of KwaZulu-Natal has seen targeted violence against foreign nationals. Behind barricaded shops and daily fear, the 5,000 to 10,000 Senegalese who live in the region are trying to organise and get through a crisis that keeps returning. Daily life under shadow of terror in Durban In Durban, the …
Interception of a migrant canoe off the coast of Sangomar
Seven suspects arrested for migrant smuggling off the coast of Sangomar
Regional workshop on Legal and Administrative Assistance for Returning Migrants, in Tambacounda
Senegalese navy rescues 133 distressed migrants off the coast of Dakar
[Press review] Between rescues, tragedies, tougher migration policies in Africa and Europe
Overfishing fuels irregular migration in Senegal
Migration and mental health, silent suffering of exilées
In Benin, terms that frame migration according to INStaD
Migrant women, gender-based violence and Benin’s institutional response
Deep in the Sahel, another reading of migration takes shape in N’Djamena
Impeded mobility, circulation reinvented by ‘Colibri littéraire’
Ten years of modernisation put Lomé airport at heart of West African mobility
Fact-checking: “Do irregular migrants have a significant financial impact on host countries?”
? Pending 
Did Senegal introduce new measures affecting Mauritanian citizens?
✗ False 
Did the number of Senegalese people granted residence permits in Europe actually double between 2008 and 2023?
✓ True 
Using UNHCR name to scam internet users
? Pending
Surveillance or complicity? What Leggeri’s inquiry reveals about Europe’s Mediterranean ‘wall’
From Burkina Faso to Canada, inspiring rise of Flora Zongo
‘Migrant women are not only victims, they are agents of development’ — Arlette Mvondo, UN Women
In Chad, Sudanese women in the Kuchaguine-Moura camp recount war and exile
Understand the terms
Clear definitions to better understand migration issues
Administrative, logistical and financial support, including reintegration, for migrants who are unable or unwilling to stay in the host or transit country and who decide to return to their country of origin.
Read definition →A person seeking international protection. In countries with individualized review procedures, an asylum seeker is a person whose claim for asylum has not yet been finally decided by the potential host country. Not every…
Read definition →Agreements between two States, which are legally binding and primarily related to inter-State cooperation in the field of labour migration.
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