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Afghan woman sexually assaulted!
Photo credit: Amu TV Five Afghan refugees in Khalabat Township allegedly gang-raped a married Afghan woman, police said on Friday. Dawn reports that the initial medical examination of the victim confirmed the offence. The police quoted the 21-year-old victim as saying that her husband was abroad and she was living in a rented house in…
Burkina Faso scraps visa fees for African travellers!
Photo credit: Business Day The West African country, Burkina Faso, has removed visa fees for all African travellers. The country’s security minister Mahamadou Sana announced after a cabinet meeting chaired by military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore on Thursday that, “From now on, any citizen from an African country wishing to go to Burkina Faso will not pay any…
Mozambique’s multiple crises worsening!
Photo credit: UNICEF The UN-led system, for obvious reasons, has cut the number oof people it aims to reach this year by a third. The New Humanitarian reports aid groups as saying tens of millions who need emergency relief will go without. This deprioritisation also means a shrinking international presence for the system itself. Jeremy Wellard. head of coordination at the…
Hungary bars 11 million migrants!
Photo credit: Human Rights Watch Hungray has prevented over 11 million migrants from entering Europe over the past 10 years. The Budapest Times reports that the country succeeded in doing so by using its own border fence and police forces, according to Gyorgy Bakondi, thhe chief security advisor to the prime minister. He emphasized that despite these efforts,…
The fear of Gen-Z is the beginning of wisdom: a look at Nepal! by Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: BBC If you haven’t heard, hear it now! Gen-Z, those born between the mid-to-late 1990s and the early 2010s, exhibits more secretive and guarded behaviours in both personal and professional contexts than any other age group. They generally compartmentalize their lives and use private online spaces to curate a specific identity. Fortune magazine reports them as being…
Malaysian immigration arrests 125 immigrants!
Photo credit: Human Rights watch The Malaysian Immigration Department has arrested 125 illegal immigrants during a raid on a 19-storey building in Setapak, early today. The Sun reports that Kuala Lumpur Immigration director Wan Mohamed Saupee Wan Yusoff confirmed the operation. It resulted in the detention of 81 men and 43 women, and one child. The detainees included 79…
Premier’s office fails to back up claim!
Photo credit: GroundUp The office of Premier Panyaza Lesuti of Gauteng, South Africa, has failed to back up his claim that most residents of informal settlements in the province are undocumented immigrants. Ground Up reports that he had announced a crackdown on informal settlements, claiming that most of their residents are undocumented migrants. However, his office is…