We published a collection of information on the partial military mobilisation in the Russian Federation.

The report on the Russian Federation covers political protests and dissidence in the context of the conflict in Ukraine. The report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo covers the situation of the Banyamulenge from 2020 to March 2022 (South Kivu: security situation and armed groups; attacks agains Banyamulenge; humanitarian situation; North Kivu and Ituri: situation of Banyamulenge)

We are pleased to introduce an improvement to country pages on ecoi.net.

In early 2022, we updated our country priorities. These priorities define which sources are covered on ecoi.net, i.e. which documents you can expect to find for a country. The update is based on Austrian, European and global asylum statistics and affects what sources we cover for what countries.

The ACCORD training manual “Researching Country of Origin Information” is now available in Korean. It was translated by UNHCR Korea.

Together with the Federal Agency for Reception and Support Services, ACCORD held a COI webinar on Afghanistan on 22 February. Its written documentation is now available.

In earlier posts we talked about suggestions received in our survey that we will implement. This post now deals with some suggestions we won’t implement, for various reasons.

This post discusses suggestions made in our user survey concerning filters in our search engine.

We published a new feeatured topic on Afghanistan and updated a report on Côte d'Ivoire.

This post discusses suggestions made in our user survey concerning sources.