With the first convoy of 88 refugees, the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR on July 19 resumed the voluntary repatriation of Congolese refugees from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after departures were halted in 2020.
This is the story of Kilson, a young Angolan who is blocked in Italy due to the coronavirus, following a theatre workshop in Palermo, where he arrived in March. "Now I find myself with an expired tourist visa and continually calling the embassy to know what my future will be if the quarantine continues for a long time," he said.
One of the less common but most dangerous routes taken for the purposes of irregular migration is as a stowaway passenger on an aircraft. However, these journeys typically tend to result in one-way tickets to only one destination: death.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has more internally displaced persons than any other country. That’s due to numerous violent conflicts – fuelled by a political crisis. Experts say fresh EU sanctions could help.