Photo credit: IOM A new $91 million appeal has been launched to support migrants along key migration routes in Africa. Relief Web reports that the International Organization for Migration (IOM), together with 48 partners, is seeking funding to deliver life-saving assistance to migrants from the Horn of Africa travelling along the Eastern Route to Yemen and…
Photo credit: CP24 Ontario Premier Doug Ford spontaneously promised to fund the return of Toronto’s Taste of the Danforth festival, suggesting Mayor Olivia Chow should also chip in to his seemingly spur of the moment plan. Global News reports that the premier began his remarks at an unrelated transit announcement reminiscing about the east end festival, which…
A Nigerian senator has called for a nationwide debate to replace the current two-term, four-year presidential system with a single 16-year tenure. Methinks the idea is brilliant. However, I would love to propose a couple of amendments. Let’s make it a life presidencyThen, we should make it hereditary. You know, anybody who has chosen not…
Photo credit: Premium Times Mmm! We’re very happy here. In fact to say we’re enjoying will be worse than an understatement. We get fed 24/7 on the grass in the court. This is a place to be for us. Can you imagine the fact that we even go to the hall to scavenge? And I’m…
Photo credit: BBC Three men, alleged to be part of an organized people smuggling group have been rearrested after investigations. The BBC reports that the trio had been on remand at a Liverpool prison before prosecutors arrested them on suspicion of transporting Vietnamese migrants to the UK in lorries and small boats, the National Crime Agency (NCA)…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Palestinians in Gaza have gathered for the pre-dawn meal on the first day of fasting as several Arab and Islamic countries begin Ramadan, while others are set to start a day later. AlJazeera reports that people in Gaza even though they started observing the holy Muslim month on Wednesday were struggling to access…
