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Czech President expands Ukrainian refugee protections!
Photo credit: Ukrinform Czech President Petr Pavel has signed an amendment that tightens restrictions on Russian citizenship applications while extending protections for Ukrainian refugees. Expats CZ reports that the new law is set to take force the day after publication in the Law Digest. It mandates Russian applicants for Czech citizenship to renounce their Russian nationality and provide proof…
Nigeria’s budget by Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Facebook The Yoruba have a saying: The elder who refuses to shout at the start of a misdemeanour, will only have themselves to blame when the anticipated result becomes glaring. In his so-called “Budget of Restoration: Securing Peace, Rebuilding Prosperity,” the Nigerian President, Mr Bola Tinubu allocated 1.7 per cent or N826.5 billion…
US imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China!
Photo credit: CNN President Donald Trump of the US has walked his talk by actualizing his threat to impose broad tariffs on major trading partners Canada, Mexico and China. Jamaica Observer reports that he cited an “extraordinary threat” from illegal immigration and drugs. While Canadian and Mexican exports to the US will face a 25%…
“Arrange asylum shelter, or we’ll do it for you.”
Photo credit: NL Times The province of Zuid-Holland has given eight municipalities, including The Hague and Leiden, a warning that if they do not house enough refugees with a temporary residence permit, then the province will do it for them and charge them for it in addition to The Hague and Leiden, municipalities like Leiderdorp,…
Hundreds demonstrate in Santa Barbara for immigrant rights!
Photo credit: Santa Barbara Independent Nearly 300 people packed along sidewalks surrounding the Milpas Street roundabout Friday evening in what was a show of solidarity with the city’s immigrant community in keeping with Santa Barbara’s deep history of activism. Santa Barbara Independent reports that the crowd proudly flew the Mexican, Honduras and Guatemalan flags, chanted “Si…
Controversy over soldiers detained after shooting migrants!
Photo credit: Reuters Soldiers who fired warning shots at a group of migrants who tried to force their way into Poland through the Belarusian border have been detained but not arrested, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. TVN24 reports that he said the incident had occurred at the end of March and that he…