12.08.2021 - With the Taliban having taken several key provincial capitals, and with Kabul seemingly on the verge of falling to the group’s lightning offensive, Samuel Hall co-founder Nassim Majidi reports on conditions within the country. Nassim discusses the impact of recent Taliban gains, the abandonment of the Afghan people by the international community and calls on the EU and other actors to do more for Afghan refugees.
Read More12.08.2021 - With the Taliban making rapid gains throughout Afghanistan, and fighting taking an increasing toll on civilian populations, Samuel Hall’s co-founder Nassim Majidi speaks to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about the desperate plight of displaced Afghans, both those trying to flee the country and those displaced internally. To hear Nassim speak go to 01:33:00.
Read More02.08.2021 - With the Taliban advancing rapidly throughout Afghanistan and threatening an increasing number of provincial capitals and important cities, Samuel Hall co-founder Nassim Majidi talks to France’s Les Echos about what this could mean for the country. Going beyond a singular focus on the Taliban advance, Nassim highlights how other regional actors are looking to press their own interests as the situation in Afghanistan deteriorates.
Read More02.08.2021 - With the Taliban advancing rapidly throughout Afghanistan and threatening an increasing number of provincial capitals and important cities, Samuel Hall co-founder Nassim Majidi talks to France’s Les Echos about what this could mean for the country. Going beyond a singular focus on the Taliban advance, Nassim highlights how other regional actors are looking to press their own interests as the situation in Afghanistan deteriorates.
Read More30.07.2021 - Samuel Hall co-founder Nassim Majidi spoke to France Inter about how, as the Taliban advances through Afghanistan, the group is keeping its ‘old ways’. Residents are being terrorised, small business are being attacked, media outlets are being shut down and women are being forced to wear the Burqa as well as threatened with forced marriage to Taliban fighters.
Read More30.07.2021 - With the Taliban threatening to take power in Afghanistan, Turkey has began to build a wall in preparation for what it anticipates to be a new wave of Afghans migrating to its soil. Nassim Majidi recently spoke to France’s La Croix newspaper about the ongoing exodus from Afghanistan and the conditions Afghans must face when trying to cross into Pakistan, Iran and then Turkey.
Read More05.07.2021 - The Taliban continue to gain ground in Afghanistan. Now at the gates of the country's major cities, their objective of taking possession of Kabul seems to be confirmed. The capital is organising its defense but the feeling of panic has already invaded the population. Nassim Majidi reports on the situation in Kabul.
Read More03.07.2021 - As American soldiers begin to return from Afghanistan, what conditions are they leaving behind? Our co-founder Nassim Majidi spoke to Christine Ockrent for Radio France’s France Culture.
Read More28.06.2021 - Samuel Hall co-founder Nassim Majidi features in this new podcast from Le Monde, in partnership with AFD. « Femmes en lutte, un combat mondial » travels across four continents and gives voice to those who document and lead struggles against injustice and inequality. Nassim spoke to Joséfa Lopez about the situation for women in Afghanistan in the lead up to the US troop withdrawal deadline.
Read More24.06.2021 - Samuel Hall co-founder spoke to Preethi Nallu about the impact of migration on Afghanistan refugees and their families back home, as well as solutions for successful reintegration.
Read More10.06.2021 - Samuel Hall is the recipient of a research grant from the Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) to explore how refugees traveling within East Africa use mobile technology and the internet to support migration, and to what extent current mobile tech solutions meet their needs.
Conducted over six months, the study took place in Kenya and Uganda, home to some 1.7 million refugees. Both countries are two of the largest refugee hosts in the East and Horn of Africa (alongside Ethiopia and Sudan) and positioned at the nexus of regional migration.
This short video from Kakuma refugee camp presents some of the study’s main findings and takes a step towards deciphering the degree to which mobile phone coverage, access to smartphones, awareness of mobile-based services and technical literacy affect the role mobile technology can play in supporting refugees hosted in East Africa.
Read More24.06.2020 - In June, Jared Owuor, our Regional Operations Officer, was joined by the Kenya Red Cross Society, Oracle, Agha Khan Media Innovation Centre and Gravity Earth in a webinar organised by Techfugees’ Kenya chapter to discuss the role of technology in disrupting existing refugee inequalities in Kenya amidst Covid-19.
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Read More28.08.2019 - This video, produced by Samuel Hall in collaboration with ACP IOM and ACP EU, explains the various financial difficulties undergone by refugees residing in Kakuma, one of the world’s largest and most established refugee camps. Through interviews with residents and organization representatives in Kakuma, this video presents a number of methods employed by refugees to overcome financial barriers while displaced.
Read More28.08.2019 - This video presents a refugee experience from the perspective of Masoud, an Afghan man who, while seeking safety and a new future in Europe, considers hiring a smuggler to take him to Canada.
Read More27.08.2018 - In recent years, European countries have seen an increase of migrants from developing countries. This migration trend, often described as a “crisis,” has been characterized by the deaths of hundreds of thousands of migrants who take significant risks to reach their destination countries, as well as a significant concern regarding the lives of migrants in countries of destination. Despite the many benefits migration brings to both home and host communities, donor governments have sought to invest in programs in countries of origin that might reduce the flow of people to Europe.
Many such investments have been based on the assumption that more economic development in countries of origin will lead to more local jobs, fewer migrants, and therefore less economic and political turmoil in Europe. Yet this premise is increasingly contested by facts from the ground. For instance, some research suggests that economic development actually increases migration flows until a country reaches an upper-middle level of GDP.
This brief by Mercy Corps and Samuel Hall presents new evidence on this ongoing debate. Drawing from two countries of origin of many migrants to Europe – Afghanistan and Somalia – this paper tests assumptions about ‘root causes’ of and ‘solutions’ to migration
Read More14.04.2017 - This course gives you 8 key insights into migration that come from the largely overlooked perspectives of migrants. Delivered by origin country expert Nassim Majidi.
Read More24.04.2017 - Technology is already revolutionizing education delivery and livelihoods for low-income communities in East Africa. Samuel Hall’s Benjamin Hounsell argues that, with some infrastructure investment, this presents a major opportunity for refugees in the region.
Read More20.06.2017 - With 17 million people crippled by drought in the Horn of Africa, Samuel Hall researchers and photographer Ashley Hamer explain the realities of climate-induced displacement in Somalia on World Refugee Day.
Read More22.05.2017 - Afghan parents in desperate poverty often rely on sending children to work, but a school run on donations offers young people an alternative to a life of toil.
Read More24.04.2017 - Contrary to popular notions that most Eritrean refugees are headed to Europe, many are ‘warehoused’ in Ethiopia with few options to restart their lives, say researchers from Samuel Hall and the Overseas Development Institute.
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