Trump threat to deport immigrants raises stakes in agricultural sector that runs on expatriate labour
Donald Trump, a Republican, vowed to deport millions of immigrants in the US illegally as part of his campaign to win back the White House, a logistically challenging undertaking that critics say could split apart families and disrupt US businesses.
‘Abducted’ opposition leader’s wife tells Ugandan president ‘to reflect on solution of criminalising and eliminating opposition’
Uganda’s government spokesperson, Chris Baryomunsi, said last week his country does not carry out abductions, and that arrests abroad were done in collaboration with host countries, but did not comment on the specific case.
Frying pan into fire: Sudanese and Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s Amhara region face daily attacks
Some refugees at the site have been shot, while others have been stabbed by armed men who steal mobile phones, cash and other items. At least nine refugees have been killed at Alemwach in the past year, according to a tally by the camp’s leadership committee.
Central African Republic journalist once retained by Russian mercenaries pulls veil off Wagner disinformation
Yalike-Ngonzo said that for three years he was tasked with writing stories praising the activities of the Russian forces and the army and military government of the Central African Republic and placing them in local media outlets. He was also asked to organise anti-Western demonstrations and suppress voices critical of the government.
Opposition clinches presidency in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland, calls for economic benefits from Ethiopia deal
Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi of the main opposition Waddani Party received more than 50 per cent of the votes cast. Abdullahi, 69, served as Somaliland’s parliament speaker in 2005.
Ukraine uses US-supplied ATACMS missiles to hit Russian territory as Kyiv marks 1,000 days in trenches
Military experts say US missiles can help Ukraine defend a pocket it has captured as a bargaining chip inside Russia but are not likely to change the course of the 33-month-old war.
After helping Ethiopia’s federal government repel Tigray rebels, Amhara’s Fano militia now aim fire at former allies
Amhara anger with the government in Addis Ababa escalated into confrontation between Fano and regional forces. By July, major cities were under attack and the regional government requested federal help. The ENDF restored order the next month, but there were many civilian casualties in the process.
Woman with personality disorder jailed for eight years for demanding Putin’s death over Ukraine
On May 14, 2022, she posted over three dozen times on VKontakte, a social network, hurling insults at Putin and saying he bore personal responsibility for the deaths of men, women and children whose bodies were being pulled from under the rubble of Ukrainian apartment blocks.
Russia relapses into dark era of Soviet paranoia as citizens spy on each other over Ukraine
In news reports, court cases and on social media, examples have come to light of neighbour informing on neighbour, churchgoers denouncing priests and students reporting on teachers. For some, the resulting current climate is reminiscent of the atmosphere of mutual distrust and suspicion under Soviet Communist rule.
Climate change: World meets in Baku as Uganda grapples with scourge of environmental refugees
A time or temporal dimension of the environment does exist so that we can talk of four dimensions of the environment (the ecological-biological, the socioeconomic, the sociocultural and the temporal). However, the dimensions are not mutually exclusive but are mutually inclusive. Some causes of refugee migrations are a result of interactions of the phenomena occurring in the dimensions of the environment.
