South Africa’s President acknowledges rising tensions over migration
Photo credit: AP News South Africa’s President promised Sunday to act on what he called concerns…
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…
South Africa’s President acknowledges rising tensions over migration
Photo credit: AP News South Africa’s President promised Sunday to act on what he called concerns over illegal migration after a rise in anti-immigration protests and sentiment in Africa’s most advanced economy, with other nations claiming their citizens have been targeted in xenophobic attacks. The Associated Press reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s comments in a speech on…
Side hustles in Toronto tied to FIFA 2025 could be a risk, as are fraud scams
Photo credit: Toronto Star Like with any major event in Toronto, a major influx of visitors can be expected in the city. The Toronto Sun reports that with the FIFA World Cup 2026 right around the corner, it’s understandable that Toronto residents and businesses are looking for ways to capitalize on the crowd and make some extra…
Italy recovers 11 bodies from a capsized migrant boat off Malta; fishing vessel rescues 53
Photo credit: Chicago Tribune Eleven migrants died, and 53 others were rescued after a boat carrying irregular migrants capsized east of Malta on Sunday evening, in an operation involving Maltese and Italian authorities. According to the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM), Malta Vessel Traffic Services received a distress notification from a fishing vessel regarding a boat…
Kabie O Si! – Adewale Sobowale
I hear Twitter says it neither knows Buhari nor the country he governs! In the Murtala/Obasanjo days, everybody that mattered knew Nigeria. In fact, if Nigeria coughed, the whole world would shiver. Those were the finest days of Nigeria’s foreign policy. The USA, UK, etc were all ‘begging’ to be in Nigeria’s good books. But…
Southern European states want tougher measures to debar new migration crisis
Photo credit: DW Italy, Greece, Cyprus, and Malta have called for stronger European measures to prevent a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis, warning of continued pressure on Mediterranean emigration routes and the growing activity of human trafficking networks. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reports that the appeal was made during a summit held in…
Behind China’s expanding detention camps
Photo credit: the Guardian The north-west Chinese province is the ancestral homeland of the predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uyghur people. SBS News reports that it is also the site of expanding facilities where hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in detention. “Uyghurs have been subjected to restrictions on religious activities for a long time, but in…
Victoria Mboko: from war-torn Congo to the glamorous world of tennis
Photo credit: Tennis Canada There is an African saying that good things might come from ugly developments and vice versa. Cyprien Mboko and Godee Kitadi originally lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the late 90s, the country was engulfed in violent political conflict. Godee moved to Montreal in 1999 while pregnant, according to…
