ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the quantum of protection available for refugees and asylum seekers within the framework of African sub-regional organizations. It refers to documents and instruments adopted on the platform of regional and global organizations but made directly applicable in the framework of sub-regional organizations. The chapter shows the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) has taken some relatively concrete steps to set standards regarding its 'concerns' about refugees through the adoption of more elaborate pro-refugee instruments. It peeks at the practice to show whether the rhetoric in the legal framework is matched by actual practice. Similar to their practices in relation to other aspects of human rights, African sub-regional organizations have relied largely on instruments adopted on the platform of the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) to pursue their protection activities.
