An increasing number of asylum seekers are taking advantage of Serbia’s visa-free policy to enter the country – but now the Balkan nation is backing down under EU pressure and imposing entry requirements on Burundians. Assu is 16 years old. The young Burundian lives in the Brussels transit center for migrants. Like many of his […]
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“We come unannounced not to catch you doing wrong things, but to ensure that your shop is in satisfactory hygienic condition” Human rights organisation, Africa Unite, recently hosted a dialogue between City of Cape Town health inspectors and mostly immigrant business owners in Mitchells Plain. The meeting follows recent conflict between immigrant shop owners and […]
Rishi Sunak, the new British Prime Minister, has vowed to pursue the tough and uncompromising UK-Rwanda immigration plan designed to transfer to Kigali asylum seekers and refugees including Senegambians that crossed the English Channel. Even though several pundits and politicians across the political spectrum have suggested that Sunak, who recently took over the position of […]
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Uganda: UAE Slaps Visa Ban On Ugandans
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates(UAE) have announced a visa ban slapped on Ugandans and 20 other nationalities seeking to visit Dubai with immediate effect. Authorities in the United Arab Emirates(UAE) have announced a visa ban slapped on Ugandans and 20 other nationalities seeking to visit Dubai with immediate effect. “This is to inform you […]
No fewer than 542 stranded Nigerians in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been evacuated by the Federal Government. The evacuees arrived Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja aboard a Max Air Chartered flight operated with the Airline’s Boeing 747. On board the plane, which touched down at 4:29 a.m, were 79 males, 460 females and […]
Ado Ekiti — The Controller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Idris Isah Jere, has charged officers and men of the Service to be upright, steadfast and patriotic, neutral and apolitical in the discharge of their national duties during the 2023 general polls. Jere urged his operatives to always be alive in their […]
An estimated 281 million migrants span the globe. The remittances they send home get a lot of attention from policymakers and development agencies like the World Bank due to their positive impacts on developing economies. This is because the movement of money is – for the most part – quantifiable, as much of it goes […]
The secretary said that there were too many students coming into the UK and need to be cut down. The UK’s Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has expressed her office’s intentions to cut immigration numbers, potentially affecting a path for many Nigerians seeking a new life in another country. In an interview with The Telegraph, she […]
Nairobi — The government says Kenyans will still be able to renew or replace the old generation passports even after the November 30 deadline. In a press statement, Director General Alexander Muteshi stated that the exercise will continue in all passport application centres locally and at missions abroad. According to Muteshi, Kenya will fully migrate […]
Harare — Zimbabweans cling to hope even after years of silence from loved ones who have disappeared across borders. Blessing Tichagwa can barely remember her mother. Like hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans, Noma Muyambo emigrated to South Africa in search of work, leaving baby Blessing, now 15, behind with her grandmother. The last time they […]
Harmful rumours about migrants from other African countries get attention on social media in South Africa. One recent claim about the jobs they hold is wildly inflated. Claim Three claims about the number of Zimbabweans employed by South Africa’s electricity utility and by a major telecoms company, and foreign nationals with jobs in government departments. […]
Forced migration and its concomitant enslavement of the African was a blight on the world’s collective conscience between the 1500s and 1800s. It is paradoxical that the ships of the slave masters were filled with unwilling and forced migrants, brutally repressed and tortured to keep them on board, yet some would rather drown than move […]
SOUTH Africa’s home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has scornfully dismissed speculation that his decision to extend permits for Zimbabwean immigrants was aimed at helping the ruling Zanu PF party win next year’s crunch general elections. Motsoaledi had, throughout the year, vowed to not renew the expiring Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP), meaning its holders – many […]
The boat set off from the Western Sahara some nine days ago, carrying 34 migrants attempting to flee to the Spanish islands. Thousands of migrants attempt the trip each year, in search of a better life. Spanish coastguards have recovered a migrant boat off one of Spain’s Canary Islands, rescuing a sole survivor and retrieving […]
The Department of Employment and Labour’s Inspection and Enforcement Services (IES) inspectors, have discovered that South Africa’s largest online retail company, Takealot, has not been complying with the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993, at its warehouse in Gauteng, Kempton Park, where parts of the facility pose immediate danger to its workers onsite. […]
A new declaration could set a precedent for regional cooperation on Africa’s climate-change crisis. Regional cooperation and free movement are critical for handling climate-linked migration and displacement but are vastly underused. East Africa and the Horn – regions battered by climate change – have emerged as leaders in recognising their importance. The Horn countries contribute […]
Harare — Cross-border immigration is frequently the focus of divisive and passionate debate in the host nation and has emerged as the subject of contentious and emotional debate in many countries. A disturbing trend globally is that some political groups tend to blame and scapegoat immigrants for socio-economic problems like crime, health crises, unemployment, and […]
Some have good memories of their years in South Africa Zimbabweans who have returned to their old country after working and studying for years in South Africa are battling to rebuild their lives. Most were forced to make the move because of the South African government’s announcement that after 12 years it is now scrapping […]