The International Organization for Migration warns that the number of internally displaced people in Sudan soon will top 10 million, as conflict and acute hunger spread throughout the country....
Asylum seekers from Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan detained in government’s Operation Vector share their stories. When Helen arrived at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre, she was taken to her cell and handed some cleaning spray and wipes and told to use them before making up her bed. She had no idea why she had been...
"'Last Thursday (23rd of May) there was an enormous revolt inside the detention centre in Rotterdam airport.
60 prisoners expecting deportation revolted and fought off the jailers, wounding 7. There have been no reports of casualties during the heat of the uprising under the resisters. 14 resisters were afterwards forced into isolation cells.'
Today [Yesterday] (Monday 27th of May) we held a spontaneous noise demo to show our solidarity and support for their courageous actions! We waved and shouted to each other "FREEDOM NOW!"
None are free until all are free.
Fire to the prisons with the jailers inside!
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I picked up two pretty grungy bikes donated to Repeat Boutique several weeks ago. They are good sturdy machines that can provide transportation to someone who shops there for free clothing, household goods, etc. But not in the shape they were in. Both are mountain hybrids with handlebar extensions and rat trap pedals. Lots of mud, 4 flat tires, 1 chain jammed, 4 nonfunctional combo shifter- brake levers, no kickstands. Ugh. So Friday I ⤵️
Israel has order the evacuation of parts of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah ahead of an imminent ground offensive in the region. "To all the residents and displaced people in Rafah area ... you are in a dangerous combat zone,” the evacuation leaflets read, before specifying certain parts of the region....
.Russian forces have captured five villages as part of a renewed ground assault in Ukraine’s northeast, the country’s Defense Ministry said Saturday. Ukrainian journalists reported Friday that Russian troops took the villages of Borysivka, Ohirtseve, Pylna and Strilecha, all of which lie in a militarily contested “grey...
The bodies of nine migrants found on an African boat off the northern coast of Brazil’s Amazon region were buried Thursday with a solemn ceremony in the Para state capital of Belem. Fishermen off the coast of Para found the boat adrift April 13, carrying the bodies that were already decomposing. Brazilian officials later said...
#Algeria#Maghreb#Refugees
رشيد طه - يا رايح وين مسافر
Rashid Taha, an Algerian- French singer’s ‘93 version of “Ya Rayeh” an Algerian chaabi song original to Dahmane al-Harrachi - He performed it with Khaled and Faudel in ‘98. About the exile, who longs to come home. @algeria https://youtube.com/watch?v=uUDKfK3R42Q&si=ZYK0jGhi1Y3GDOLW
"The insistence that #refugees might be left to drown is the kind of thing that used to be confined to the meeting rooms of dodgy pubs & white supremacist marches where the police always outnumbered the protesters."
"The immigration debate has become so warped, though, that opening safe, legal routes is seen by many as the equivalent of an “open border”, while mass deportation is viewed, in Sunak’s words, as “compassionate”. There is nothing compassionate or constructive about the performative cruelty that now stands for immigration policy"
Kenan Malik on how govt policy, far from being a deterrent, promotes the small boats in the Channel.
"..this model that some people want to put in place, which means that you go and look for a third country, for example in Africa, and send our immigrants there”.
“We’re creating a geopolitics of cynicism which betrays our values and will build new dependencies, and which will prove completely ineffective”
Emmanuel Macron.
April 23, 2024 (GENEVA) – Hundreds of thousands of people and refugees fleeing from the Sudan war going to neighbouring Chad or Ethiopia, the European Union (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Josep Borrel said. Borrell, also the Vice President of the EU Commission, was speaking during the 25th EU-Non...
As the UK government pushes through its execrable Rwanda Bill, some background on Rwanda’s activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ironically creating hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing violence, rape and murder perpetrated by the Rwandan backed M23 militia.
If the charter company the Govt uses to transport refugees is also in the travel business then it's to be hoped their charter holiday flights will be boycotted.
If they use RAF or Naval aircraft then I would hope the Public Accounts Committee would look into it as a misuse of public funds and a diversion of critical military resources (as we don't have that many resources to play with).
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation bill will become law after peers eventually backed down on amending it, opening the way for legal battles over the potential removal of dozens of people seeking asylum....
Fleeing from war, the experience of Romani people in Germany differs from that of other Ukrainians. They often encounter racism instead of help. More than 1.1 million people have fled to Germany as a result of the war in Ukraine — including an estimated several thousand Romani refugees, members of Europe's largest minority....
For Ukraine’s entry in this year’s Venice Biennale, two artists asked refugees to help them create an ‘acceptable’ portrait of a woman ravaged by war. We meet the team behind an astonishing project
Crisis unfolding in Sudan as internally displaced nears 10 million (www.voanews.com)
The International Organization for Migration warns that the number of internally displaced people in Sudan soon will top 10 million, as conflict and acute hunger spread throughout the country....
‘I’m frightened’: the asylum seekers rounded up to be sent to Rwanda (www.theguardian.com)
Asylum seekers from Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan detained in government’s Operation Vector share their stories. When Helen arrived at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre, she was taken to her cell and handed some cleaning spray and wipes and told to use them before making up her bed. She had no idea why she had been...
Rafah faces evacuation as UN warns food supplies will ‘run out tomorrow’ - live (www.independent.co.uk)
Israel has order the evacuation of parts of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah ahead of an imminent ground offensive in the region. "To all the residents and displaced people in Rafah area ... you are in a dangerous combat zone,” the evacuation leaflets read, before specifying certain parts of the region....
Russia claims capture of villages in northeast Ukraine as more than 1,700 civilians flee (apnews.com)
.Russian forces have captured five villages as part of a renewed ground assault in Ukraine’s northeast, the country’s Defense Ministry said Saturday. Ukrainian journalists reported Friday that Russian troops took the villages of Borysivka, Ohirtseve, Pylna and Strilecha, all of which lie in a militarily contested “grey...
Brazilian authorities bury deceased migrants who drifted in African boat to the Amazon (apnews.com)
The bodies of nine migrants found on an African boat off the northern coast of Brazil’s Amazon region were buried Thursday with a solemn ceremony in the Para state capital of Belem. Fishermen off the coast of Para found the boat adrift April 13, carrying the bodies that were already decomposing. Brazilian officials later said...
Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Sudan war - EU official (sudantribune.com)
April 23, 2024 (GENEVA) – Hundreds of thousands of people and refugees fleeing from the Sudan war going to neighbouring Chad or Ethiopia, the European Union (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Josep Borrel said. Borrell, also the Vice President of the EU Commission, was speaking during the 25th EU-Non...
UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda (www.theguardian.com)
Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation bill will become law after peers eventually backed down on amending it, opening the way for legal battles over the potential removal of dozens of people seeking asylum....
Ukraine's Romani people face discrimination in Germany (www.dw.com)
Fleeing from war, the experience of Romani people in Germany differs from that of other Ukrainians. They often encounter racism instead of help. More than 1.1 million people have fled to Germany as a result of the war in Ukraine — including an estimated several thousand Romani refugees, members of Europe's largest minority....
UNRWA chief warns human-caused famine 'tightening its grip' across Gaza (www.japantimes.co.jp)
The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees accused Israel of blocking their ability to deliver aid to Gaza, where many are starving.
Bloodied, despondent, clutching a toy: the Ukrainian artists savaging refugee portrait stereotypes (www.theguardian.com)
For Ukraine’s entry in this year’s Venice Biennale, two artists asked refugees to help them create an ‘acceptable’ portrait of a woman ravaged by war. We meet the team behind an astonishing project