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In Shire in Tigray, UNHCR staff, together with partners, have already distributed water, high energy biscuits, clothes, mattresses, sleeping mats and blankets to an estimated 5,000 internally displaced. The agreement was reached recently between the UN in the country and the Federal Government to facilitate access to aid organizations to provide assistance to civilians affected by the month-long conflict. In Shire in Tigray, UNHCR staff in the town together with partners have already distributed water, high energy biscuits, clothes, mattresses, sleeping mats and blankets to an estimated 5,000 internally displaced. However, we continue to receive disturbing reports regarding the Eritrean…

“The impact of the UN’s famine predictions will be disastrous, and even fatal, for IDPs and migrants, who are already greatly suffering as a result of limited access to food and humanitarian assistance.” New United Nations data showing record levels of acute food insecurity in Yemen raise major concerns over the impact of hunger on particularly vulnerable groups, especially internally displaced people and migrants. Millions of people are displaced across Yemen, with over 166,000 newly displaced this year alone, while at least 14,500 migrants are stranded in the country — both groups worryingly cite access to food as among their…

BuzzFeed News said on Friday it refused a demand from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reveal anonymous sources the publication used while reporting on a deportation program. ICE reportedly issued a subpoena to the outlet earlier this week, demanding the identities and contact information of sources. “BuzzFeed News emphatically rejects any requests for information about possible sources and methods of our reporting,” Editor-in-Chief Mark Schoofs said, according to the outlet. “We do not confirm or discuss confidential sources, and this subpoena is an outrageous overreach by the federal government,’ Schoofs said. “It’s fundamentally at odds with the US Constitution and will not…

The judge ordered DHS to post a public notice by Monday prominently on its website to accept first-time applications. A New York federal judge on Friday restored the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — which President Donald Trump has tried to end — in a court ruling that would swiftly grant thousands of immigrants whose parents brought them to the U.S. as young children the ability to continue to work and study in the country. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said in his six-page ruling that he was fully reinstating the DACA program based on the terms established under former…

Taipei, Dec. 5 (CNA) Prosecutors in Yilan have filed human trafficking charges against a Taiwanese labor broker and two others for allegedly contracting migrant fishermen using fake employment applications, and then profiting off their placement in jobs where they worked long hours for little pay. In a press release on Friday, the Yilan District Prosecutors’ Office said the main suspect, a labor broker surnamed Huang (黃), had used fake employment applications to contract 15 migrant fishermen since 2017, and then send them work illegally in the local fishing industry. In 2018, after he allegedly reported one of the migrants as…

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has directed the immigration authority to decide on whether or not to allow a US citizen of Indian origin who has been convicted for possession of child pornography to travel to Mumbai. A bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and Milind Jadhav on Thursday passed the order on a petition filed last year by the 57-year-old chartered accountant who lives in Connecticut. The man, also an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI), had moved to the US in 1990. On August 31, 2018, he left from New York to visit his ailing and aged parents in Mumbai. On arrival…

Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale has sent a strong warning to politicians spreading posts reportedly written on his instagram page. In one of the posts making the rounds, Shatta Wale reportedly criticized former President and flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama for saying he launched the Free SHS policy in 2015. However, in a message on social media, the Dancehall artiste asked those spreading the false statements to ‘STOP’ He wrote: “Stop dragging me into matters of politics when I haven’t said anything. I see prominent people in our country posting photoshop statements about…

Priscilla Serwaa Manu, a nurse from Mampong Nursing Training School is the newly crowned Queen of Miss Health Ghana. It was a tale of beauty and elegance at this year’s grand finale held at the GNAT Hall, as Serwaa Manu saw off competition from nine other finalists to win herself a brand new 2017 Hyundai Accent as well as securing a one-year health ambassadorial deal. Akambey Awontemi Isabella, a medical student at the University of Development Studies was the first runner-up for this year’s competition while Gracia Helarie Fraikue, a student of the University of Health and Allied Sciences was…

With the potential risk of famine in Yemen and South Sudan, Save the Children is calling for an urgent and large-scale global response to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe. An estimated 11 million children under five are facing extreme hunger or starvation[i] across eleven countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Middle East and Asia, new analysis by Save the Children reveals, with the potential risk of famine in Yemen and South Sudan. The aid agency is calling for an urgent and large-scale global response to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe. Save the Children is particularly concerned for children in five ‘hunger…

In early November 2020, military confrontations between federal and regional forces in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which borders both Sudan and Eritrea, led the Government to declare it in a State of Emergency. Since then, Ethiopia’s Tigray region has reportedly continued to be affected by incidents of armed conflict. Since early November, Eastern Sudan received large numbers of refugees through at least three border points, and there are currently no clear signs that this refugee flow is coming to an end. The population in the Tigray region of Ethiopia includes approximately 600,000 people dependent on food relief assistance (more than 400,000…