UK urged to pull its weight to support African refugees

A cross-party committee said the British government should"lead by example" by resettling and employing refugees, especially those forcibly uprooted from their homes in sub-Saharan Africa.

The committee said Britain resettled 5,756 refugees in 2017/18, but only about 450 were from sub-Saharan Africa - a region where conflict uprooted 15,000 people every day in 2017, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Over a third of the world's forcibly displaced people are in Africa, including some 6.3 million refugees and 14.5 million who have been forced from their homes within their own country's borders, according to the African Union.

As a member of the Global Compact on Refugees, which was approved by U.N. member states in December, Britain had an obligation to help ease pressures on host countries and provide refugees with access to education and work, it added. “Once an individual has been granted protection, they have immediate and unrestricted access to the labour market,” a DFID spokesman said.

I urge UK otherwise. Africa needs to sort it self out without the help of western civilisation. They are their own people with their own culture.

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