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Since 1998, the U.S. Border Patrol recorded more than 8,000 migrant deaths along the border with Mexico.VOA immigration reporter Aline Barros visited a South Texas county with a high rate of migrant deaths.
After being elected as the 78th UN General Assembly’s President, Dennis Francis, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago’s Permanent Representative to the UN, briefs reporters
The Kenyan government says it has or plans to enter into labour agreements with countries in the Persian Gulf, Canada, Germany, and the United States. The agreements are meant to make it easier for Kenyans to find work abroad. However, activists of workers’ rights claim that, particularly with Gulf countries, such agreements expose employees to exploitation and abuse.
A wide view of the high-level Committee on South-South Cooperation’s 21st session
According to reports, fighting and intercommunal violence between the Sudanese army forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the state of West Darfur have intensified recently. Witnesses who escaped the city of Geneina say that their hometown is being destroyed.
The Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Edem Wosornu, briefs United Nations Security Council meeting about the situation in the Middle East (Syria)
As the U.N. urges greater participation of women in international peace and security efforts, West African women are playing a more significant role in the region’s military campaign to combat extremism. In order win hearts and minds in terrorist hot spots, order to win over people in terrorist hotspots, U.S.-led training is helping in putting more women on the front lines.
After a break of three years due COVID pandemic,the Mogadishu Book Fair, an annual literary event that launched in 2015, was held last week. The fair, which brought together literary artists and young people meant to promote reading and Somali culture and history. It was held in the National Theatre of Somalia.
Three more schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in northern Borno state more than nine years ago were rescued by the Nigerian military this month. In that 2014 incident, Boko Haram raided a public secondary school in the Chibok town and seized nearly three hundred students. Negotiations resulted in the release of many of the girls, but many more are being held captive.
Thai voters elect the progressive Move Forward Party to lead their country’s next government.But over a week later, powerful political rivals are blocking the party’s progress and forcing an early climbdown over the controversial royal defamation bill.