Lemn Sissay said applying for a UK or EU visa had become ‘a serious problem’ for African and Asian artists. Photograph: Ian Davidson/Alamy African and Asian artists, made up of musicians, authors, producers, and festival managers, are complaining about “humiliating” and costly visa-rejection rates for those visiting Britain and European Union countries. The Guardian reports…

Photo credit: Bloomberg Around 4,000 Rwandan troops with high-tech weaponry have crossed into eastern Congo to fight battles that have fuelled a vast human catastrophe across the region. The Globe and Mail reports that the fighting which has caused heavy casualties with incessant shelling of civilian areas, has forced at least a million people to…

Photo credit: Irish Mirror A worker has won 5,000 euros over a racial comment by his supervisor. The RTE reports that the man accused his supervisor of making “hateful” comments about immigrants in a works canteen. The supervisor allegedly said, “Now, they’re coming over here, and they’re mixing with us. That’s the problem.” The worker…

Photo credit: National Post Less than half of Canadians aged 18 to 39 say they “support the government’s new rules to regulate the web, podcasts, streaming and social media to restrict offensive speech and online harms,” a new poll has discovered. National Post reports that a new Postmedia Leger poll has found that more Gen…