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Dai Bing, China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN has called on European countries to “address the issue of migrant refugees with an open and inclusive mindset, and to protect the right to life  and human rights of migrant refugees.” CGTN reports that Bing made the remarks during an open briefing of the Security Council concerning the…

There are concerns that refugees in Ireland are being “scapegoated and discriminated” against by anti-migrant forces. Irish Independent reports that they are being framed as a threat to women’s safety. The executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, Dr Natalia Kanem said this before the publication of a new report that gives evidence of the…

Georgian lawmakers resorted to blows in the parliament when members of the ruling party were about to present a bill on “foreign agents.” Aljazeera reports that the bill had been criticized by Western countries and had been protested against at home. Mamuka Mdinaradze, leader of the ruling Georgian Dream Party who is a driving force…

After a year-long war in Sudan that has almost pushed its people into famine, donors across the globe have pledged to donate $2.1 billion in aid. AP reports that French President Emmanuel Macron said this at the end of an international conference in Paris aimed at getting support for Sudan’s 51 million people. The aid…

Sunday, March 14, was the tenth anniversary of the senseless abduction of the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School. Chibok is a town in Borno state of Nigeria. At a meeting in Lagos, calls for releasing the remaining girls were renewed. Present at the meeting were relatives of the girls and activists. A rescued schoolgirl, Grace…

Legislation to declare Rwanda safe is likely to pass through parliament and the British authorities are full of hope that this will allow the first flights to take off. However, Charities supporting migrants are planning to launch legal challenges “as quickly as possible” against the movement if the law is passed in the coming days….

One of the widow’s of the late MKO Abiola, Modupe Onitiri-Abiola declared a secession of the Yoruba of South Western Nigeria from Nigeria over the weekend. Abiola was the winner of the June 12, 1993 election in Nigeria. However, the military regime annulled the election. Abiola later died in prison on July 7, 1998 after…