Africa

Since 2018, Cape Town, a city of 3.7 million people, has been experiencing an unprecedented drought. Cape Town’s water crisis was declared a national emergency when a decline in rainfall between 2015 and 2018 resulted in the worst droughts on record. The city announced a Day Zero – a point when the municipal water supply would be shut off. Thankfully, Day Zero never came, and the city’s largest water supplier, the Theewaterskloof Dam, was able to show an increase from 11 per cent of capacity on 9 March 2018, to 100 per cent on 2 October 2020 (Global Citizen, 9 October 2020).

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Ethiopia currently hosts over 900,000 refugees, primarily from neighbouring South Sudan, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea, as well as smaller numbers of refugees from Yemen and the Syrian Arab Republic. On 17 January 2019, Ethiopia’s parliament adopted revisions on its existing refugee law; the revised policy offers a more comprehensive response to displacement in which refugees are included in national services like health and education, rather than setting up parallel systems. It also focuses on ensuring refugees have the opportunity to be self-reliant and can contribute to local economies in a way that also benefits their hosts (UNHCR, 2019). The amendment derived from the need for a comprehensive legal framework in compliance with international standards, one that contains rights and entitlements embodied in the International Conventions, provides better protection of refugees and promotes sustainable solutions (Ethiopia Refugee Proclamation, 2019).