{"id":44537,"date":"2026-09-03T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44537"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:30:19","slug":"drought-displaced-angolans-face-severe-human-rights-abuses-in-namibia-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/drought-displaced-angolans-face-severe-human-rights-abuses-in-namibia-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought-displaced Angolans face severe human rights abuses in Namibia: Amnesty \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angolan women and children displaced into Namibia by severe drought are facing systemic human rights abuses due to a lack of safe, legal migration pathways for climate-impacted populations, Amnesty International warned in a recent report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The report, titled &#8220;The Drier It Gets The Longer You Have To Walk, The Deeper You Have To Dig&#8221;, details how recurrent, El Ni\u00f1o-exacerbated droughts across southern Angola have collapsed traditional farming and pastoral systems, forcing thousands across the border into northern Namibia in search of food, water, and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the rights group, displaced Angolans face persistent threats of arbitrary arrest, detention, and forced deportation. The report documents instances of collective expulsion by Namibian authorities, including a June 2025 incident in Opuwo where roughly 40 Angolans, including women and children, were rounded up and forcibly returned across the border at Ruacana without individual protection screenings or asylum assessments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International\u2019s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, urged the Namibian government to establish a rights-based framework providing documentation, healthcare access, and legal protection against refoulement, whilst calling on Angolan authorities to urgently improve climate adaptation and social protection infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica\/AmnestyInternational&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22443,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-44537","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Amnesty International accuses Namibian authorities of collective expulsions of Angolan climate refugees","published_date":"2026-09-03 14:13:34","news_description":"Amnesty International accuses Namibian authorities of collective expulsions of Angolan climate refugees","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44538,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44537\/revisions\/44538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=44537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}