Starting on Monday, the Africa desk at Al Jazeera is launching a new weeklong feature series on intra-Africa migration, called “Migration within Africa: Home so close to home”. Even though accurate migration data is hard to come by, the United Nations says more than 31 million Africans live outside the country of their birth. But some of the problems that make travelling outside Africa cumbersome are also present in intra-Africa travel; some visa applications still take on average 10-15 working days and require a truckload of documents. Still, migration on the continent continues in large numbers and unheralded for the most part. We hope these stories will inspire a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit and provoke deep reflection about movement within Africa.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 10, 2023 11:32 UTC