Photo credit: Yahoo News The number of people facing a “food crisis” around the globe has doubled over the past decade, a new report finds, with the new data coming in the wake of figures that show that foreign aid has also fallen to a 10-year low. The annual report, co-published by aid partners including the…
Photo credit: Greek reporter Greece has dispatched senior coast guard officials to Libya in a bid to strengthen cooperation and curb the rising flow of irregular migrants heading toward the island of Crete. Libya Review reports that the move highlights the growing European concern over migration routes from North Africa. Greek Minister of Maritime Affairs, Vasilis Kikilias,…
The Ogun State government in Nigeria has declared that anyone not wearing a facemask will be arrested and quarantined for two weeks. According to Dr. Ben Cowling, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Hong Kong, ‘In general, there’s not a large benefit of wearing surgical face masks either for people who…
Could it be true that Mr. Goodluck Jonathan is a possible candidate for the 2023 presidential elections in Nigeria? Could he be true that he might become the consensus choice of APC? I can’t just help asking if we, Nigerians, do think at all. So, Jonathan’s sins have been forgotten or is it forgiven? I…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Windsor-Essex community members and experts have said an upcoming new federal co-payment system will hurt access to healthcare for refugees and instead can increase overall costs, CBC News reports. CBC News reports that members of the St John’s medical community speak out against the new federal co-payment system they say will hurt access…
Photo credit: the Korea Times The Ministry of Justice said it has released two new sets of nationally approved statistics tracking the regional movement and migration flows of foreign residents in Korea, with the data now available to the public for the first time. The Korea Times reports that the two new databases – the Foreign Residents…
Photo credit: WSJ Rebel fighters in Sudan’s civil war have landed on a lucrative way to fund their brutal campaign: looting the country’s museums. The Wall Street Journal reports that historians and curators are saying that the Rapid Support Forces that have been fighting government forces for the past three years are now targeting Sudan’s rich cultural…
