Rise in asylum seekers to Canada!

Photo credit: the Guardian Canadian border officials say there has been a steady rise in the number of people seeking asylum at a border crossing south of Montreal.  CTV News reports that the rise in would-be refugees at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing comes as the temporary status of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United…

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41,700 flee DR Congo violence to Uganda!

Photo credit; UNCHR Over 41,000 refugees have fled the Democratic Republic the Congo (DRC) into Uganda since January.  The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reports that many of them have witnessed killings, “sexual violence and other traumatic experience during their flight.  Since the end of last month, about 600 Congolese have been crossing into Uganda daily. …

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Discharged! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: BBC I was furious that a popular actress held a party, somewhere in Lagos, to celebrate her husband’s birthday while there was a lockdown because of coronavirus19. The government subsequently arrested the couple and they were prosecuted. I have since learnt that some of the other attendees at the party have had charges…

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