What is it about?
The Biafran refugee children were confronted with the risk of extinction due to starvation and diseases. To save them, humanitarian organizations hosted them within African countries, this, promoting refugee hosting within African continent.
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Why is it important?
Amidst refugee crisis in places like Ukraine and Gaza, this article is essential in that it suggests the necessity of protecting the lives of vulnerable children. Within the African continent, it emphasizes the need to host African refugees within Africa.
Perspectives
In writing this article, I came to realize the importance of networking in solving human problems. It was our common humanity and the value of human lives that brought the different humanitarian organizations together with selected African countries to save the Biafran children.
Edidiong Ekefre
Akwa Ibom State University
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This page is a summary of: Hosting Biafran Child Refugees: the Inter-African Refugee and International Humanitarian Network System During the Nigerian Civil War, 1967 and Beyond, Journal of Migration History, October 2023, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/23519924-09030002.
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