2. The term "refugee" shall also apply to every person who, owing to external aggression, occupation, foreign domination or events seriously disturbing public order in either part or the whole of his country of origin or nationality, is compelled to leave his place of
habitual residence in order to seek refuge in another place outside his country of origin or nationality.

4. This Convention shall cease to apply to any refugee if:
(a) he has voluntarily re-availed himself of the protection of the country of his nationality, or,
(b) having lost his nationality, he has voluntarily reacquired it, or,
(c) he has acquired a new nationality, and enjoys the protection of the country of his new nationality, or,
(d) he has voluntarily re-established himself in the country which he left or outside which he remained owing to fear of persecution, or,
(e) he can no longer, because the circumstances in connection with which he was recognized as a refugee have ceased to exist, continue to refuse to avail himself of the protection of the country of his nationality, or,
(f) he has committed a serious non-political crime outside his country of refuge after his admission to that country as a refugee, or,
(g) he has seriously infringed the purposes and objectives of this Convention.

5. The provisions of this Convention shall not apply to any person with respect to whom the country of asylum has serious reasons for considering that:
(a) he has committed a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity, as defined in the international instruments drawn up to make provision in respect of such crimes;
(b) he committed a serious non-political crime outside the country of refuge prior to his admission to that country as a refugee;
(c) he has been guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the Organization of African Unity;
(d) he has been guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

1. Member States of the OAU shall use their best endeavours
consistent with their respective legislations to receive refugees and
to secure the settlement of those refugees who, for well-founded
reasons, are unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin or
nationality.
2. The grant of asylum to refugees is a peaceful and humanitarian act and shall not be regarded as an unfriendly act by any Member State.
3. No person shall be subjected by a Member State to measures
such as rejection at the frontier, return or expulsion, which would
compel him to return to or remain in a territory where his life,
physical integrity or liberty would be threatened for the reasons set
out in Article I, paragraphs 1 and 2.
4. Where a Member State finds difficulty in continuing to grant asylum to refugees, such Member State may appeal directly to other
Member States and through the OAU, and such other Member
States shall in the spirit of African solidarity and international cooperation take appropriate measures to lighten the burden of the
Member State granting asylum.
5. Where a refugee has not received the right to reside in any country of asyum, he may be granted temporary residence in any country of asylum in which he first presented himself as a refugee pending arrangement for his resettlement in accordance with the preceding paragraph.
6. For reasons of security, countries of asylum shall, as far as possible, settle refugees at a reasonable distance from the frontier of their country of origin.