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Over 67,000 South Africans Want To Move To US After Trump's Refugee Offer
Over 67,000 South Africans have shown interest in relocating to the United States after Washington offered to resettle Afrikaners facing alleged racial discrimination
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"UN Agency Is Lying": Rwanda Denies Claims On UK Asylum Seekers
Rwanda said the United Nations refugee agency had lied when it told a British court this week that asylum seekers sent to the East African country could be moved on again to states where they risked torture or death.
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Assassin’s Creed Red Female Protagonist Character Art Leaked by Ubisoft Writer
Assassin’s Creed Red’s female protagonist art has leaked online, showing a hooded figure wielding a katana. The image was spotted on Ubisoft writer Pierre Boudreau’s LinkedIn profile, which has since been changed. The game is set in feudal Japan and is reported to feature two protagonists, which also include an African refugee samurai who lea...
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Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict Worsens, 550 Rebels Killed
Refugees fled to Sudan on Tuesday and the African Union appealed for a ceasefire in a north Ethiopian region where Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is waging a military offensive against local leaders defiant of his authority.
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Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu Scraps African Migrant Relocation Deal With UN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was cancelling an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency to relocate thousands of African migrants, bowing to right-wing pressure to scrap the deal.
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Bhutanese Man's Store Set On Fire Allegedly By African-American In North Carolina
A Bhutanese refugee is the victim of a false flag assault in Charlotte by an African-American man who allegedly made the attack on the man's store.
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Donald Trump Expected To Order Temporary Ban On Refugees
President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders starting on Wednesday that include a temporary ban on most refugees and a suspension of visas for citizens of Syria and six other Middle Eastern and African countries, according to several congressional aides and immigration experts briefed on the matter.
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Boko Haram Refugees In Niger Feel 'Abandoned' By The World
"Take us away from this hell," said Boussam, a mother of seven cradling skeletal goats in Niger's Assaga camp, where thousands of desperate refugees fleeing Boko Haram Islamist insurgents are living in hunger.
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Pope Readies for Africa, Riskiest Trip of His Papacy
Pope Francis heads to Africa this week for the riskiest trip of his papacy, defying danger with an open-topped popemobile and visits to a slum, refugee camp and mosque despite security fears following jihadist attacks.
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Sudan Urges More Support to Check Human Trafficking, Migration
A senior Sudanese official today called for more international support to check human trafficking and migration across Sudan's borders towards Europe, as EU and African leaders met in Malta to discuss the migration crisis.
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Central Africa Leader Pleads for Calm as United Nations Says 27,000 Flee Unrest
The Central African Republic's president appealed for calm Tuesday as the United Nations reported 36 people dead and almost 30,000 displaced in three days of bloodshed terrorising the capital Bangui.
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UN Rights Chief Sounds Alarm Over Reports of Burundi Youth 'Militia' Violence
The UN human rights chief said today he was alarmed by accounts from refugees fleeing Burundi about violence and threats by members of the ruling party's youth wing which risked tipping the African nation "over the edge" into conflict.
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Food Rations Slashed for 800,000 African Refugees: United Nations
Nearly 800,000 refugees in Africa have had their food rations slashed due to a lack of global aid funding, threatening to push many to the brink of starvation, the UN warned on Tuesday.
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Divers recover 83 more bodies from Italy refugee shipwreck
Divers in Italy recovered 83 more bodies on Sunday after a shipwreck in which over 300 African refugees are feared to have died, as a government minister called for an easing of immigration rules.
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300 feared killed in Italy migrant boat disaster
Three hundred people were feared dead after a boat carrying up to 500 African asylum seekers caught fire and sank off Italian shores in the worst recent refugee disaster in the Mediterranean.
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Over 67,000 South Africans Want To Move To US After Trump's Refugee Offer
Over 67,000 South Africans have shown interest in relocating to the United States after Washington offered to resettle Afrikaners facing alleged racial discrimination
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"UN Agency Is Lying": Rwanda Denies Claims On UK Asylum Seekers
Rwanda said the United Nations refugee agency had lied when it told a British court this week that asylum seekers sent to the East African country could be moved on again to states where they risked torture or death.
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Assassin’s Creed Red Female Protagonist Character Art Leaked by Ubisoft Writer
Assassin’s Creed Red’s female protagonist art has leaked online, showing a hooded figure wielding a katana. The image was spotted on Ubisoft writer Pierre Boudreau’s LinkedIn profile, which has since been changed. The game is set in feudal Japan and is reported to feature two protagonists, which also include an African refugee samurai who lea...
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Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict Worsens, 550 Rebels Killed
Refugees fled to Sudan on Tuesday and the African Union appealed for a ceasefire in a north Ethiopian region where Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is waging a military offensive against local leaders defiant of his authority.
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Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu Scraps African Migrant Relocation Deal With UN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was cancelling an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency to relocate thousands of African migrants, bowing to right-wing pressure to scrap the deal.
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Bhutanese Man's Store Set On Fire Allegedly By African-American In North Carolina
A Bhutanese refugee is the victim of a false flag assault in Charlotte by an African-American man who allegedly made the attack on the man's store.
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Donald Trump Expected To Order Temporary Ban On Refugees
President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders starting on Wednesday that include a temporary ban on most refugees and a suspension of visas for citizens of Syria and six other Middle Eastern and African countries, according to several congressional aides and immigration experts briefed on the matter.
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Boko Haram Refugees In Niger Feel 'Abandoned' By The World
"Take us away from this hell," said Boussam, a mother of seven cradling skeletal goats in Niger's Assaga camp, where thousands of desperate refugees fleeing Boko Haram Islamist insurgents are living in hunger.
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Pope Readies for Africa, Riskiest Trip of His Papacy
Pope Francis heads to Africa this week for the riskiest trip of his papacy, defying danger with an open-topped popemobile and visits to a slum, refugee camp and mosque despite security fears following jihadist attacks.
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Sudan Urges More Support to Check Human Trafficking, Migration
A senior Sudanese official today called for more international support to check human trafficking and migration across Sudan's borders towards Europe, as EU and African leaders met in Malta to discuss the migration crisis.
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Central Africa Leader Pleads for Calm as United Nations Says 27,000 Flee Unrest
The Central African Republic's president appealed for calm Tuesday as the United Nations reported 36 people dead and almost 30,000 displaced in three days of bloodshed terrorising the capital Bangui.
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UN Rights Chief Sounds Alarm Over Reports of Burundi Youth 'Militia' Violence
The UN human rights chief said today he was alarmed by accounts from refugees fleeing Burundi about violence and threats by members of the ruling party's youth wing which risked tipping the African nation "over the edge" into conflict.
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Food Rations Slashed for 800,000 African Refugees: United Nations
Nearly 800,000 refugees in Africa have had their food rations slashed due to a lack of global aid funding, threatening to push many to the brink of starvation, the UN warned on Tuesday.
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Divers recover 83 more bodies from Italy refugee shipwreck
Divers in Italy recovered 83 more bodies on Sunday after a shipwreck in which over 300 African refugees are feared to have died, as a government minister called for an easing of immigration rules.
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300 feared killed in Italy migrant boat disaster
Three hundred people were feared dead after a boat carrying up to 500 African asylum seekers caught fire and sank off Italian shores in the worst recent refugee disaster in the Mediterranean.
