24/11/2025
Countries in East Africa affected by incompetent leaders neglected to use public funds, while others persecuted their citizens for harbouring hatred and murdering fellow adherents of the same faith.
While most Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers live elsewhere in East Africa, with the largest numbers in Ethiopia (nearly 180,000 as of 2024) or Sudan (150,100), many Eritreans have taken dangerous journeys to Europe, with Germany home to the third largest Eritrean refugee population (71,300).Apr 9, 2025
Meanwhile South Sudan about 300,000 people have fled South Sudan so far in 2025 as armed conflict between rival leaders threatens civil war, the United Nations warns.
And Somalia is one of the countries with the most displaced people in the world. More than 2.6 million people have been forced to flee their homes within the country by conflict or drought. Often, it is the combination of conflict and drought that forces people to flee their homes.
Then Sudan came the first with more than 4.3 million Sudanese have fled to neighbouring countries since the start of the civil war in April 2023 between the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to the latest data confirmed by the United Nations.
Young people, who are the backbone of the nation, make up the majority of those fleeing, but they are doing so voluntarily in search of a better life overseas. Some people try to cross the Mediterranean Sea; some succeed, while others starve to death in the water and end up as fish dinner. Some people who are stranded in Northern African nations experience hardships, racism, and discrimination, which can lead to mental health issues. Instead, some use drugs to cope, which exacerbates their anxiety and depression. African leaders need to wake up as our a generation that could improve our nations' dying daily