Pakistan’s PM calls for expanding legal migration opportunities
Photo credit: The Nation Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday called for expanding legal migration…
Biden under knocks!
Rights Advocates criticised President Joe Biden of the United States for referring to an undocumented immigrant as an “illegal”.He was accused of echoing the dehumanising rhetoric of his predecessor, Donald Trump. Rights advocates and progressive lawmakers have long condemned the use of the term “illegal” to refer to human beings who do not have immigration…
BAM BAM L’AYO! WE’RE OVERFED!! – Adewale Sobowale
When I was a kid, I can still remember situations when I refused to eat. It normally happened when I was annoyed. Whenever that happened, my mother wouldn’t utter a word. She would have her meal, and for what I then thought was an overkill, she would begin singing, Bamubamu la yoAwa o mo p’ebiNpo’mo…
Israeli attacks on Palestinian aid seekers continue
Israel has not relented in its efforts to fire Palestinian civilians. Al Jazeera reports that its cameras captured some Israeli forces firing a crowd of Palestinians awaiting aid distribution at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City. The attack is noted to be the second since yesterday. It is also reported that an Israeli air attack…
US judge blocks new immigration law in Texas
A federal judge on Thursday blocked a new Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S., dealing a victory to the Biden administration with a broad rejection of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration enforcement effort. U.S. District Judge David Ezra’s preliminary injunction pausing a law that…
Lords checkmate Rwanda plan!
The U.K.’s Upper House has passed five amendments on the Rwanda bill. If the amendments are ratified, it would make it harder for the lower house to declare Rwanda a “safe” country. It would therefore require the government to comply with domestic and in international laws. The amendments would also severely affect the main purpose…
Sheffield United 0-6 Arsenal; Match Report
A breathless, brutal display of attacking football saw us equal our record away win the Premier League for the second time in a matter of weeks. Following a 6-0 win at West Ham late last month, and a 5-0 hammering of Burnley in our last away league game, we were at it again at Bramall…
Nigerians deploy different strategies to survive as economic hardship kontinu to bite
Di rising cost of living dey push Nigerians to di point wey be say dem no know wetin to do again. Wit inflation wey don almost hit di highest in thirty years for January, almost half of di population dey live inside poverty now. Di money wey dem dey earn dey below $1 a day….
Trump’s claims of a migrant crime wave are not supported by national data
When Donald Trump speaks at the southern border in Texas on Thursday, you can expect to hear him talk about “migrant crime,” a category he has coined and defined as a terrifying binge of criminal activity committed by undocumented immigrants spreading across the country. “You know, in New York, what’s happening with crime is it’s…
Pakistan’s PM calls for expanding legal migration opportunities
Photo credit: The Nation Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday called for expanding legal migration opportunities for Pakistani skilled workers and professionals in European countries, saying pathways could help meet labour-market needs while reducing migrants’ vulnerability to smuggling networks. Business Recorder reports that he made these remarks while speaking to Magnus Brunner, European Union Commissioner…
Taiwan clarifies pregnancy rules for migrant caregivers
Photo credit: Taipei Times Employers are not required to support a foreign worker’s family if the worker becomes pregnant, the Ministry of Labour (MOL) said yesterday, following complaints from an employer who discovered a caregiver they recently hired was pregnant. Taipei Times reports that the ministry urged the public not to spread misinformation, saying pregnant foreign domestic workers…
Environmentalists picket African Energy Week…
Photo credit: CW39 Houston Climate activists picketed outside the African Energy Week conference in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday, calling for an end to new oil and gas exploration across the continent and accusing energy companies of prioritizing profits over people and the environment. The Associated Press reports that Greenpeace Africa and Extinction Rebellion…
Scarborough takes centre stage in mayoral campaign on Thanksgiving
Scarborough was the focal point for Toronto’s mayoral campaign on Thanksgiving, with the main candidates making their stops in the city’s east end. City News reports that Mayor Olivia Chow attended an event hosted by the Chinese Cultural Centre and served meals to seniors. She was technically present in her capacity as mayor, but she…
A generation of angry young Indians takes to the streets to challenge Modi
Photo credit: Bozeman Daily Kashish Rawat travelled to New Delhi on Saturday to protest. She did not tell her parents. The Associated Press reports that when the 22-year-old economics student arrived in the Indian capital, she encountered a city transformed. Metal barricades choked the streets as police moved against young demonstrators, beating some, dragging others into…
Scores die as rival groups clash in central South Sudan
Photo credit: The Guardian Clashes last week between armed groups from rival communities in the central part of South Sudan left scores of people dead and overwhelmed a hospital with wounded people, officials said. The Associated Press reports that fighting swept through the Rumbek area of Lakes State on Friday as government soldiers and UN…
