Saturday, October 31, 2026 • Morocco: A release by the Mixed Migration Centre for North Africa on the third quarter of 2026 showed that Sudanese have become the largest group among registered refugees and asylum seekers in Morocco, numbering 6,816 people as of July 2026, representing 29% of a total of 23,615 people from more than 60 nationalities, including 10,538 refugees and 13,077 asylum seekers, with an average Sudanese registration of nearly 233 people per month since 2024 (Source: Mixed Migration Centre of the Danish Refugee Council, based on data from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, via Hespress) • Central African Republic: A solar-powered water system, built by UNICEF and its partner Triangle with funding from the US Department of State, provided a permanent water supply to all 25,000 residents of the Korsi settlement near Birao, all of them refugees from Sudan, through four towers and 12 distribution points reaching the farthest parts of the settlement (Source: UNICEF in the Central African Republic) • Europe and transit: The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa — COMESA — warned that the European Union's tightening of its asylum framework could leave thousands of migrants stranded in African transit countries not equipped to support them, and considered that concern is particularly acute in Libya, Sudan and Tunisia, which are main transit routes towards Europe, with routes feeding Sudan and Egypt via the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea (Source: COMESA via The East African)
— Editorial Team
