Yusuf Salat, deputy county commissioner for Turkana West, said the asylum seekers belonged to two rival clans from South Sudan."Three people were killed and several others were injured. We have deployed police to calm the situation," Salat told Xinhua news agency.Kakuma refugee camp manager...
"Please issue a clear rejection of the plan to outsource asylum processes," the authors demanded in the letter published Wednesday.Signatories include Amnesty International Germany, Médecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) and migrant advocacy group Pro Asylum.The open letter was...
Parties (PVV), People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), New Social Contract (NSC), and Farmers-Citizens Movement (BGBB) 2023, Xinhua news agency reported.A breakthrough came in May when they reached an agreement on forming a new government and then a new Prime Minister, Dick Schuof, who...
The long-awaited measure, which Biden has been considering for months, would take effect once the seven-day average for illegal crossings between ports of entry at the US-Mexico border reaches 2,500 per day, effectively closing the border. Will give, Xinhua news agency reported quoting senior...
LONDON [UK], UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said there will be no deportation flights to Rwanda ahead of the July 4 snap elections, Al Jazeera reports. Sunak made the announcement during the first full day of campaigning on Thursday. The Labor Party, which currently holds a 20-point lead in...
EU officials were struggling to complete migration reforms ahead of European elections in June. The issue has been politically divisive, especially since the influx of arrivals in 2015 that exposed the weaknesses of the system.The overhaul includes 10 pieces of legislation, which were...
The new body of legislation is the result of years of bitter debate, which culminated in a tense vote in the European Parliament on April 11. Protesters disrupted the vote by throwing paper airplanes into the House and chanting, "It kills PACs, not votes!" ,The new law requires all 27 EU...
London, if the Labor Party comes to power in the next election, is to set up a new "elite border unit" partly to "destroy" people smuggling gangs dealing with small boats crossing the English Channel. Rwanda will end the financing scheme and replace it with "corruption with gimmicks". ...
LONDON (AP) — A group of protesters on Thursday blocked a bus carrying asylum seekers from a hotel in south London to a shipping ship off the southwest England coast, as the British government moved to crack down on illegal migration. Phased action has been started.The Metropolitan Police said...
LONDON [UK], British authorities have begun detaining asylum seekers as part of a new initiative aimed at deporting them to Rwanda, with initial flights scheduled to depart in early July, the government said. As the announcement was made, Home Secretary James Cleverley commented, according to a...
Dublin [Ireland], The Republic of Ireland is considering legislative changes to enable the return of asylum seekers to the United Kingdom. The move comes after a surge in arrivals at the border with Northern Ireland, which falls under Britain's jurisdiction, Al Jazeera reported, broadcaster RTÉ...
His meeting with his German counterpart Olaf Scholz will focus on military aid to Ukraine and the war in Gaza. There is also likely to be discussion on Britain's controversial asylum deal with Rwanda, which was approved by the British Parliament on Tuesday.Although Britain has not been an EU...
PARIS [France], Five asylum seekers died on Tuesday while crossing the English Channel from France to Britain in an overcrowded small boat, Al Jazeera reported. This comes just hours after the UK government approved a bill to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda. The boat carrying 112 people had...
New Delhi, Saying that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is "patent discriminatory", senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said his party's position is that it should go and be replaced by an asylum law which Is in accordance with international treaties. India is a party.His...
Michael O'Flaherty, Europe's human rights commissioner in Strasbourg, said on Tuesday: "The UK government should refrain from removing people under Rwandan police custody and reverse the bill, which effectively violates judicial independence." “This law raises questions about the human rights of...
The Security of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration Bill) was approved by parliament after midnight after peers pushed back, ending opposition to the plan.Sunak hopes the Rwanda plan will stop migrants crossing the English Channel, but on Tuesday morning a small boat was seen leaving the Calais...
London [United Kingdom], UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced in a strong message that there will be no longer any delays on flights to Rwanda and that they will start sending asylum seekers there within 10 to 12 weeks, according to Al Have promised to do. Jazeera In an effort to turn...
LONDON [UK], The UK Parliament has passed a controversial bill that would allow the government to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda for their claims in what is considered the East African nation, CNN reports. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's efforts to pass the bill were stuck amid protests in...
The Prime Minister will hold a press conference ahead of a vote on legislation aimed at legally empowering a plan to send asylum seekers on one-way journey to Rwanda.Several weeks of parliamentary turmoil are set to begin on Monday night.The government has vowed to keep Parliament...
The House of Commons returned from the Easter recess on Monday, with legislation high on the agenda after a minister insisted flights taking asylum seekers to Kigali could resume "within weeks". There should be.It came as Sunday became the busiest day for Channel crossings so far this year...