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Saleh Ahmed Handule Ali, 33, left the UK in 2008 for East Africa. But he became stranded. Ali arrived in the UK at the age of nine in 2000 with his mother and two younger siblings from Somalia. They had gone to join Ali’s father, whom the government had granted refugee status. Since the family…

Richard Drax, a British MP from a slave-owning family is set to gain 3 million pounds from the sale of his family’s plantation. The Guardian reports that he is a subject of criticism for his ancestors’ role in Caribbean slavery. Despite threats to make him pay reparations and seize his family’s plantation, the government is…

Ireland’s Justice Minister, Helen McEntee has said the Irish government will introduce some measures that will favour asylum seekers from unsafe countries. Irish Independent reports that those in that category will be processed through a fast-tracked international protection system. That step will be part of a further clampdown on record levels of immigration. The plan…

When some descendants of migrants who are now citizens of foreign countries and happen to be in government talk, one wonders where their sense of history is. So it is with Kemi Badenoch, the British Secretary of State for Business and Trade. When addressing financial bosses at TheCityUK’s international conference in London last week, Badenoch…

Chicago has committed a whopping sum of $1.32 billion to migrant aid. Courthouse News Service reports that the money is split between an additional $70 million to feed and house new migrants and $1.25 billion to create more affordable housing and economic opportunities across the city over the next five years. The $1.25 billion represents…

Authorities in the Philippines are working towards bringing the corpses of three nationals of the country killed after the flooding in the United Arab Emirates. Rappler reports that the Migrant Workers Office in Dubai and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration met with the three Filipino Workers’ next of kin and explained the procedures. The DMW, OWWA…

A United Nations report has said the West African Sahel is fast becoming infamous for drug trafficking. According to the report, the conflict-ridden region is becoming an influential route for drug trafficking. In 2022, 1,444kg of cocaine were seized in Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso and Niger while an average of 13kg was seized between 2013 and…