Spike in Asia, Africa migrants turns Amazon jungle outpost into crossroads
Reuters A recent crackdown on migrant smuggling and human trafficking throughout the Americas turned up migrants from 69 countries, an indicator of the steep growth in Asians and Africans who are crossing oceans and continents to reach the United States. Coordinated by the international police organisation Interpol, the fifth annual Operation Turquesa united immigration enforcement […]
Wow!: French soccer tournament celebrates diversity, fights racism
JADE LE DELEY and JEROME PUGMIRE, of Associated Press, report from Creteil in France…
“They told us they hate Africans”: Hundreds detained, deported from Abu Dhabi
Beirut, LebanonThomson Reuters Foundation Kabirat Olokunde, a Nigerian migrant worker, planned to spend her birthday with friends in the city of Abu Dhabi. Instead, she turned 28 in a frigid prison cell, one of about 700 Africans imprisoned by Emirati authorities without charge. In unparalleled mass arrests, the workers were jailed with “no legal justification” […]
AFRICANS IN AUSTRALIA: OPEN LETTER URGES AUSTRALIANS TO “STA-UP” IN SUPPORT OF REFUGEES
DAVID ADAMS reports …