Inquest Highlights Abuses in Canada’s Immigration Detention

Central East Correctional Centre in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, February 10, 2021. Kawartha 411 By Human Rights Watch A coroner’s inquest into the 2015 death of Abdurahman Hassan, a refugee from Somalia, has brought to light shocking details about Canada’s immigration detention system and abusive conditions in provincial jails. In response, 40 organizations have renewed their

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Billionaire Issa brothers’ EG Group sells $1.5 billion in property in bid to slash debt burden

Zuber and Mohsin Issa / PA Evening Standard By Simon Hunt EG Group, which runs hundreds of petrol stations in the UK as well as the Leon fast food brand, said it had sold 415 store assets in the US to property company Realty Income, in a deal which will see it lease the assets

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Saudi Arabia deposits $5 bln in Turkey’s central bank – statement

Saudi Minister of Finance Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan/Reuters By Reuters Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement with Turkey to deposit $5 billion in the country’s central bank through the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), the fund said on Monday. Saudi Minister of Finance Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan announced his country’s intention to make the deposit

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Illegal fishing by foreign ships in Somalia

File Photo/Somali Times The Ministry of Fisheries of Somalia said that evidence received from the fisheries monitoring center shows that many fishing vessels from foreign countries are fishing illegally in Somali waters. The ministry said the evidence indicates that the vessels have been operating in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) since January 2023. “This represents

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UN appeals for unhindered humanitarian access amid clashes in northern Somalia

File Photo Somali Times/Hargeisa SNM militia shelling, bombing hospitals, destroying mosques and massacring women and children By Xinhua News Agency The United Nations relief official in Somalia on Friday appealed for unhindered humanitarian access to all those in need as clashes between security forces and clan leaders in Las Anod in northern Somalia intensifies. Magatte

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Is Tshisekedi really keen on holding polls this December?

DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi. His country is set to hold elections on December 20 this year/AFP By The East African In the words of Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi to the UN Human Rights Council session this week in Geneva, Switzerland: “The persistence of the war in the east of our country

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UK’s government has withdrawn support for the SNM militia that committed genocide in northern Somalia Las Anod

File Photo Somali Times/Hargeisa SNM leaders massacring women and children The UK government has announced an unexpected decision affecting the Hargeisa SNM militia, which is currently facing a serious crisis as a result of the uprising in the town of Las Anod in the Sool region. The UK has announced that it has suspended the

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UK to unveil new law to stop Channel migrants on Tuesday – paper

Rescue workers stand on board an RNLI lifeboat, amid a rescue operation of a missing migrant boat, at the Port of Dover in Dover, Britain December. Photographer Peter Nicholls By Reuters A new law to crack down on migrants arriving in Britain in small boats from Europe across the English Channel will be unveiled on

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Museveni, Ramaphosa root for pan-African solutions to ‘local’ issues

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (right) welcomes Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni in Pretoria/AFP By The East African Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni last week visited South Africa on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s invitation, ostensibly to build “strong political and economic relations”. The two heads of state held discussions encompassing political, economic, regional, continental and international issues. But it

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How Africa can cut impact of US dollar on its markets

The discussion we don’t have often enough, though, is the oversized impact the movements of the US Dollar can cause upon emerging market countries/Shutterstock By Business Daily Africa Whenever I meet clients and investors, the one discussion I always end up having, regardless of market conditions, is on currency markets. There are often strong views

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