Tag Archives: ASYLUM

The spokesperson of the Lagos state police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin has shared the rather shocking story of how a Nigerian seeking asylum abroad approached him and asked that the police to declared him wanted.   Posting via his X handle, Hundeyin wrote; ‘‘Please, declare me wanted!’   I was …

A woman who was wrongly accused of being a member of the LGBTQ+ community although she was married, was nearly lynched, but found a way to escape from Ghana to Canada, has opened up about her ordeal for the first time. Speaking in an interview with a Ghanaian Canada-based journalist, …

South African police have evicted more than 100 asylum seekers camping for over three years outside the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Pretoria. The asylum seekers began living in makeshift tents pitched outside the UNHCR offices as they asked to be relocated to other countries after a …

An addendum to the memorandum of understanding between the United Kingdom (UK) and Rwanda, signed last month when UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman visited Kigali, will now see the transfer of people who have not claimed asylum in the UK to Kigali. The initial memorandum signed on April 13, 2022, …

At least 19 refugees and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have drowned off the coast of Tunisia while trying to cross the Mediterranean and reach Italy, according to a human rights group. Reports of the deaths came early on Sunday as Italy’s ANSA news agency said more than 2,000 asylum seekers …

The US and Canada have reached a deal to reject asylum seekers at unofficial border crossings, officials say. US President Joe Biden and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau will announce the pact on Friday during Mr Biden’s visit to Ottawa. The accord is expected to allow officials on both sides of …

Germany-based International Human Rights Activist, Mr Anthony Kwabena Rau, has said that people can also use their economic situation to seek asylum in Germany. In an interview on Daily Hustle Worldwide, Mr Rau mentioned that according to the German law on immigration, non-citizens can even seek political asylum based on …

Boris Johnson has defended plans to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda as three men due to be on the first flight failed in their bids to avoid being removed. Up to eight people are due to be on Tuesday evening’s flight but appeals against removal are being heard. The PM …

A flight to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda next Tuesday has been allowed to go ahead by the High Court. Campaigners failed in an initial legal bid to halt the removals to the east African country, but have confirmed they will take the case to the Court …

The first batch of asylum seekers sent to Rwanda from the UK under a controversial new deal will likely arrive in the East African nation “in the next few weeks”, officials in Kigali said Thursday. Since being announced last month, the agreement enabling Britain to send migrants and asylum seekers …