Photo credit: ABC News The Iran-backed Houthi rebel group on Thursday took over Yemen’s port city of Mokha, an area vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni officials said. The Associated Press reports that the takeover gives Iran another potential point of leverage in its war with the US, analysts said, if the Houthis use…
Photo credit: EWN Migrants who have been camped outside the Home Affairs refugee offices for three months have committed to leaving the area for fear of being attacked. Eyewitness News reports that the migrants have agreed to the government’s offer to move them to Lindela Repatriation Centre. Tensions were high yesterday as more than a hundred…
#Change begins with the individual. Mmmm! Dasorai!!! A riot act, isn’t it? Now, it has to begin with you and I since our rulers have put the enabling environment in place. To begin with every unemployed youth is given a tidy sum to tide him over until he gets a fitting employment. In any case,…
Who says Africa is underdeveloped? Those people might not even know that development includes the ability to conduct elections fairly. For instance, I received a letter in my mailbox yesterday notifying those concerned about Quebec’s election on Monday, October 1. All the things stated in the election time table will be nonsensical to the average…
Photo credit: Reuters European lawmakers are set to vote this week on a resolution addressing the migrant crisis at Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in North Africa, with a section holding up in Poland’s border policies as a model for the bloc, according to a Polish MEP. More than 70,000 people crossed into Ceuta from Morocco in…
Photo credit: DW African nationals now form the largest group of those trafficked to and stranded in countries like Myanmar and Cambodia. DW Canada reports that in Cambodia, the main obstacles to facilitating any return are that many African countries, like Uganda, Liberia, and Ghana, have no consular representatives. “But also because some countries have zero interest,” says Montse…
Photo credit: Daily Mail DHS said in a statement Wednesday that it will announce a decision on El Salvador “at the appropriate time” and that protections would remain in place until then. The Associated Press reports that about 200,000 people from El Salvador have lived in the US since 2001 under TPS, which allows people…
