The Climate Refugee Question: Does Southern Africa Have a Legal Framework to Protect Displaced People?
A Growing Crisis Without Clear Protection In early 2023, Cyclone Freddy swept across southern Africa and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Mozambique, Malawi, and Madagascar. Entire villages flooded. Crops failed. Families fled across borders searching for food, shelter, and medical care. Yet many of those people did not qualify for legal refugee protection. […]