Mr Akuneme said that the service recently found out that Lagos State had half of the uncollected passports. The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says about 97,000 passport booklets issued were uncollected in the 36 states nationwide including Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Service Public Relations Officer, (SPRO) Comptroller of Immigration, Tony Akuneme, said this in […]
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Families of the dead and missing are trapped in limbo as their attempts to find out what happened to their loved ones and efforts to ensure justice, truth and reparation are being impeded in an apparent cover up by Spanish and Moroccan authorities, said Amnesty International on the eve of the first anniversary of the […]
Egypt mourned with deep sorrow the victims of a migrant boat that sank off the coast of Greece. The boat, which was carrying hundreds of illegal migrants, including Egyptians, sailed from Libya’s coast to Europe. In a statement released on Friday 16/06/2023, the Foreign Ministry said the Egyptian Embassy in Athens is following up with […]
Cape Town — The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that it is constitutionally invalid for South Africans to lose their citizenship when acquiring those from other nations, SABC reports. The judgment reads: The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) today declared that s 6(1)(a) of the South African Citizenship Act 88 of 1995 is inconsistent […]
Top EU figures are to meet with the Tunisian president to discuss a rise in attempted migration to Europe. But Kais Saied says his economically stricken country won’t act as a “border guard” for the bloc. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni are […]
A coalition of International authorities in collaboration with local partners has disclosed that the stressors of illegal migration and human trafficking can precipitate mental health issues. The group made this known at an outreach organised by Umagba n’Edo ne Prayer Ministry International and the Evangelical Believers Outreach Ministries International, in collaboration with indigenes of Edo […]
Government has approved the National Migration Policy for Zimbabwe, a move said to ensure involvement of those in foreign lands in local development. The policy according to head of Cabinet’s Committee on National Development Planning Mthuli Ncube will also ensure orderly migration that will ensure Zimbabwe’s security is not put at risk. His policy comes […]
Former President Donald Trump has pledged to stop Nigerians and other nationals from getting citizenship for their children born in the United States if wins the 2024 election. Trump said he would issue an order during his first day back at the White House in January 2025 to deny citizenship to children with parents who […]
The United Kingdom announced on Tuesday that foreign students will not be allowed to bring their families – spouses, children and parents to the country. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the restrictions will take place from January 2024. She also said the ban is only for foreign undergraduate and postgraduate students on non-research courses. The […]
A trial began last week in the French capital Paris, where a Rwandan man, Philippe Hategekimana faces charges of playing a key role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The suspect, who was most known for the pseudonym of Biguma, is mainly linked to massacres of Tutsi in southern Rwanda, mainly the areas around […]
Arusha — KENYAN President William Ruto is expected to grace the launch of the flagship report titled ‘The State of Migration in the East and Horn of Africa” at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi, Kenya today. The inaugural report, co-published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office for the East and […]
In the wake of reported human rights violations in the Gulf countries, the East African Community (EAC) is pursuing the harmonisation of labour migration policies to curb exploitation and abuse of migrant workers, The East African reports. The initiative being spearheaded by the International Labour Organisation and the EAC secretariat is targeting to strengthen regional […]
Cape Town — A plan by Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government to send thousands of Rwandan migrants back home as part of a U.S.$174 million deal agreed upon in 2022 has been deemed unlawful by their lawyers, The East African reports. The deal was made to discourage record numbers of asylum seekers crossing the […]
Comoros has refused to allow a boat carrying migrants to dock from the French Indian Ocean department Mayotte, where the authorities have announced a controversial operation against illegal migrants. Comoros decided to suspended all passenger traffic at the Mutsamudu port on the island of Anjouan, where deported migrants usually land on Anjouan Island, from Monday […]
Abuja — Barely two weeks after it instituted a legal action against the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Seplat Energy Plc, Mr. Roger Brown, as well as the oil firm for allegedly breaching the extant provisions of the Immigration Act, 2015, the federal government yesterday withdrew the suit. In a corporate notice to the Nigerian […]
The Opposition in Parliament has challenged the government to initiate the process of evacuating all Ugandans caught up in the Sudan war before the situation gets worse. It also asked the government to urgently verify the actual number of Ugandan nationals currently trapped in war-torn country. The Shadow Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs, Muwadda […]
The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros is urging France to step back from a looming operation that could see the forced return of illegal migrants from the neighbouring French island of Mayotte. Authorities in Mayotte are expected to launch Operation Wuambushu (Take Back) on Friday, after the end of Ramadan. Its goal is to […]
Global South Against Xenophobia urges police to act The director of the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF), Nicole Fritz, and her family received threats on Twitter the day before the foundation’s court action to stop the scrapping of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP). On 10 April, Twitter user Freeman Bhengu (@zibuseman) wrote, “We are watching her […]