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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Migration

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World

India’s Modi could visit U.S by February

  U.S President Donald Trump says Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could visit the US as early as February. He told reporters after a phone call with Modi that India is also working to repatriate illegal migrants. Ishan Garg tells us more from New Delhi.  

todayJanuary 28, 2025 45

World

More than one million now displaced in Haiti

  The United Nations reports that the number of people in Haiti who have fled their homes has risen threefold in the last year. According to the UN's International Organization for Migration latest data some one million people are now displaced with more than half being children. Armed gangs continue to control most of the capital, Port-au-Prince following an outbreak of violence last year. Jody Jacobs reports from the United […]

todayJanuary 15, 2025 19

Africa

Tragic Boat Capsize off Madagascar Claims 22 Somali Lives

At least 22 Somali nationals lost their lives when two migrant boats capsized off the coast of Madagascar over the weekend, according to Somalia's Information Minister Daud Aweis as per Reuters. The boats had departed from Somalia on Nov. 2, heading towards Mayotte, a French territory in the Indian Ocean. Madagascar's Port, Maritime, and River Authority reported that the first boat was found near Nosy Iranja, with 25 survivors rescued, […]

todayNovember 26, 2024 10

Africa

Africans who apply for Schengen visas face high rejection rates – migration scholar explains why

    By Mehari Taddele Maru, European University Institute   Africans face a high rejection rate for visas to enter the Schengen group of countries. The group is made up of 29 European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their mutual borders. A Schengen visa is an entry permit for non-EU nationals which would allow them to make a short, temporary visit of up to 90 days in […]

todaySeptember 20, 2024 24

World

Greek Prime Minister criticizes German migration restrictions

The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has criticized Germany's plan to tighten migration restrictions. On Monday Berlin will begin implementing a policy aimed to curb irregular migration. William Denselow reports from Brussels.     German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced on Monday that the country would reinstate checks at all land borders to curb irregular migration. On Tuesday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk slammed Germany over the move, saying: “Such […]

todaySeptember 12, 2024 62

World

UK’s Starmer in France for post-Brexit trade talks

United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in France for talks with President Emmanuel Macron on issues such as migration, the Middle East, and Ukraine. Catherine Barnard - Professor of EU law at the University of Cambridge - says any improvements to the UK's post-Brexit trading relationship with Brussels will be a challenge.  

todayAugust 29, 2024 48

Africa

West Africa is changing: five essential reads on breakaways from Ecowas

        By Adejuwon Soyinka, The Conversation     The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has been in the news lately – mostly for the wrong reasons. The bloc is facing its biggest crisis since it was formed in 1975. Three of its 15 countries – Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali – have broken away and formed an alternative grouping, the Alliance of Sahel States. While […]

todayJuly 10, 2024 16

World

We polled EU citizens on what they want asylum policy to look like – their answers may surprise you

Asylum seekers arriving on the Greek island Lesvos in 2015. Nicolas Economou/Shutterstock     By Natalia Letki, University of Warsaw; Dawid Walentek, Ghent University; Peter Thisted Dinesen, University of Copenhagen, and Ulf Liebe, University of Warwick     The issues of migration and asylum are contentious in Europe, and have caused deep rifts among EU member states for years. These topics are fully on the agenda for the 2024 EU elections. […]

todayJune 6, 2024 29

Africa

Young middle-class Nigerians are desperate to leave the country: insights into why

    By Jing Jing Liu, MacEwan University   Since the 1980s, migration has been a part of the Nigerian middle-class psyche, catalysed by the usual suspects: high unemployment, security concerns, infrastructure gaps, and poor governance. Migrants tends to be middle-class since one needs resources to migrate. For many young Nigerians, the bloodshed that ended the 2020 #EndSARS protests against police brutality proved to be a decisive factor. Their desire […]

todayApril 30, 2024 11