The Legal Framework of the National Reconciliation Commission

Xenophobia and internal displacement in Africa: Defining protection and assistance through the Kampala Convention

“…11 Yankson-Mensah describes the implications of this act for non-nationals, noting that it 'seriously infringed on the property rights of foreign nationals, as their properties were confiscated by the state and distributed amongst supporters of the Busia government'. 12 She further notes that those 'who remained in the country were also barred from engaging in specific local businesses and were therefore placed in very difficult economic positions'. 13 In this and other instances of xenophobia on the part of African governments, it did not seem to matter that such ideation had minimal evidential basis when cast against empirical data.…”