From refugee in Kenya to U.S. representative: Oballa Oballa’s long trek to election day

By VOA,

Oballa Oballa’s trek to election day was a long and improbable one. He grew up in the Gambella region of Ethiopia, where he witnessed mass killin...

oballa oballa

German President Steinmeier pledges Ksh.328M to help fight locust invasion

By PSCU,

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has announced plans to support Africa in combating the desert locust invasion is threatening food security. ...

locust , Steinmeier

Tanzania, Sudan, Nigeria on U.S. travel ban list

By CNN,

The Trump administration on Friday announced an expansion of the travel ban -- one of the President's signature policies, which has been derided by cr...

Tanzania , Travel ban , Trump

Poor nations hosting most refugees worldwide, need more Western help: U.N.

By Reuters,

Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world’s refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million ...

Global Trends , refugees , UNHCR , United Nations

African migrant apprehensions spike at Southern US border

By VOA,

The number of African migrants apprehended by U.S. border officials has spiked, from a total of less than a hundred in years past to more than 600 in ...

U.N. refugee agency , US immigration policy

149 African migrants evacuated from Libya to Italy

By VOA,

The U.N. refugee agency says it has evacuated 149 refugees and asylum-seekers from the strife-torn Libyan capital of Tripoli and brought them to safet...

italy , libya , refugees , UNHCR

African refugees evacuated from Libya to Italy, more help needed: U.N.

By Reuters,

A total of 149 Africans in Libya were evacuated to Italy on Thursday, but more states must help people escape deteriorating conditions in Tripoli afte...

Commander Khalifa Haftar , libya , refugees , U.N

Ethiopian survivor recounts New Zealand mosque attacks

By VOA,

Abdulkadir Ababora was sitting in the front row of a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, last week when a 28-year-old Australian gunman opened fire d...

Ethiopian survivor , mosque attacks , New Zealand , Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Suspected white supremacist charged with murder after New Zealand mosque shootings

By Reuters,

Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday after 49 people were killed and dozens wou...

New Zealand , white supremacist

Kansas bomb plot trio given decades in prison

By VOA,

Three militia members convicted of taking part in a foiled plot to massacre Muslims in southwest Kansas were sentenced Friday to decades in prison dur...

Bomb plot trio , Kansas

Italy accuses France of ‘impoverishing Africa’ as migration tensions erupt

By VOA,

A diplomatic spat between Italy and France over migration to Europe is a likely forerunner of coming political battles in the run-up to European Parli...

africa , Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio , European Parliament , France , italy , poverty

Ethiopia allows almost 1 million refugees to leave camps and work

By Reuters,

Ethiopia passed a law on Thursday giving almost 1 million refugees the right to work and live outside of camps, in a move praised for providing them w...

daadab , Ethiopia , kakuma , refugees

Canada wants to welcome more than 1 million new immigrants in the next three years

By CNN,

Remember when you said you wanted to move to Canada? Now is a good time to start packing your bags. The Canadian Parliament has announced plans t...

UNICEF: Children in conflict face grave rights violations

By VOA,

Violence and insecurity have forced more than 28 million children from their homes in 2018, UNICEF said in a news release Thursday. The U.N. childr...

Yemen migrant route grows 50 percent, surpasses Mediterranean: IOM

By Reuters,

The number of migrants arriving in Yemen is set to rise 50 percent this year compared to 2017, with almost 150,000 risking all on the journey from the...

International Organization for Migration (IOM) , Joel Millman , U.N , Yemen

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib become first Muslim women elected to U.S. Congress

By Reuters,

Voters in Minnesota and Michigan on Tuesday elected the first two Muslim women to serve in the U.S. Congress, a former refugee who fled Somalia’s ci...

Ilhan Omar , muslim , Rashida Tlaib

Trump Vows Crackdown on Asylum-Seekers ‘Sometime Next Week’

By VOA,

U.S. President Donald Trump again stoked fears Thursday about undocumented immigrants and promised an executive order “sometime next week” that wo...

immigrants , Trump

Somali-American Ilhan Omar set to be first Muslim woman in Congress

By Linda Ngari,

Ilhan Omar landed in the US as a refugee at 12-years-old, fleeing the war in her home country Somalia. 24 years later, Omar stands to make history ...

Ilhan Omar , Minnesota , President Donald Trump , U.S Congressional House of Representatives

Africa’s trafficking gangs flourish as nations fail to work together

By Reuters,

Trafficking gangs are flourishing across Africa through the exploitation of hundreds of thousands of migrants, yet nations are failing to dismantle ne...

african migrants , anti-human trafficking , crime , domestic servitude , forced labour , Mediterranean , Sexual slavery , Trafficking gangs , U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Nairobi on high alert as new polio virus is discovered in Eastleigh

By Mercy Kandie,

Nairobi has been put on high alert following the discovery of a new strain of polio. The Ministry of Health now says it is putting all its resource...

Eastleigh , ministry of health , Nairobi , Polio , Polio outbreak , vaccination