Once regarded as a safe haven for refugees, Kenya is slowly becoming a hostile place for some of those seeking protection from political persecution and war, rights groups say.
Their concerns come after masked men abducted at gunpoint four Turkish (...)
Migrants stranded for years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia will be offered the right to come to the UK, under a government proposal.
Around 60 Sri Lankan Tamils have spent more than three years in a makeshift camp on the island, (...)
King Charles has arrived in Samoa for a four-day state visit where he will preside for the first time over a gathering of Commonwealth presidents and prime ministers.
Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa greeted the King and Queen Camilla at Faleolo (...)
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has commended Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of the Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST), for its proactive efforts in establishing regulations that support the digital circular (...)
NEW YORK — Saudi Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) Governor Dr. Mohammed Al-Tamimi participated in the annual meeting of the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development as a member of the committee. The meeting aims to (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) is optimistic that the ongoing mpox outbreaks in Africa could be halted within the next six months, with the first shipment of vaccines expected to arrive in Congo within days, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) Secretary-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced on Friday that the new mpox virus can be halted and brought under control with coordinated global efforts.
"This new mpox outbreak can be controlled and (...)
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an urgent appeal for $16.5 million to bolster its response to the expanding mpox outbreak in East and Southern Africa, with a particular focus on protecting children and vulnerable (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a targeted vaccination approach rather than mass vaccination to combat the spread of the mpox virus, highlighting that controlling the spread of mpox is more manageable compared to (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the mpox outbreak in parts of Africa a public health emergency of international concern.
The highly contagious disease - formerly known as monkeypox - has killed at least 450 people during an initial (...)
Italy, which receives the most migrant arrivals in the European Union, is partially outsourcing the challenge from today, as it opens the first of two planned camps in neighboring Albania.
The centers will be used to house up to 3000 migrants per (...)
Rwanda President Paul Kagame is on course to extend his 24-year rule by another five years in a landslide victory, with most of the votes counted from Monday's election.
He has 99.15% of the vote so far, with about 79% of ballots counted, partial (...)
Voters in Rwanda lined up at polling stations on Monday to elect their next president, Reuters reported.
Incumbent president Paul Kagame, who has ruled the central African country for nearly a quarter of a century, is widely expected to clinch (...)
Four migrants have died after a boat capsized during an attempt to cross the English Channel, according to the French coastguard.
Overnight, a navy patrol boat reported that migrants had fallen into the sea off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer in (...)
Sir Keir Starmer's government has begun its first full day in power following a landslide victory that ended 14 years of Conservative rule.
From inside 10 Downing Street on Saturday morning, Sir Keir welcomed his new top team, stating, "We have a (...)
The United Kingdom is heading to the polls on Thursday to elect 650 new members to the House of Commons, with opinion polls painting a picture of Labour dominance few would have thought possible in the previous vote in 2019.
That election saw the (...)
MAKKAH — Wearing white seamless dress of Ihram, hundreds of thousands of Hajj pilgrims flock to Makkah from all over the world. More than 1.3 million pilgrims have already arrived in the holy city. Most of these pilgrims came directly to Makkah via (...)
Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer have faced off in the first TV debate of the general election, with heated exchanges over tax, the NHS and immigration.
The Conservative and Labour leaders got scrappy at times, forcing the host of the ITV event to (...)
Sudan's Darfur region is facing a growing risk of genocide as the world's attention is focused on conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, a UN expert warns.
"We do have circumstances in which a genocide could be occurring or has occurred," the UN Special (...)
The leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Serb-majority entity, Milorad Dodik, repeated his threat to withdraw from the Balkan country on Wednesday, a day before a UN vote on establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than (...)
The Rwandan government won't guarantee how many migrants it can take from the UK if flights start to depart.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised that migrants arriving in the UK without permission will be sent to Rwanda rather than (...)
The US has blamed the Rwandan army and M23 rebel group for the deadly bombing of a displacement camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
At least nine people, including seven children, were killed in the strike on the Mugunga camp in the eastern (...)
Britain's governing Conservative Party suffered heavy losses in local elections, a sign that they could be in real trouble when the country holds a general election at some point later this year.
With around a third of the results declared, the loss (...)
A plan to draft new Irish legislation which would redesignate the UK as a "safe country" to which asylum seekers can be returned has been approved.
Irish government ministers collectively approved the plan brought to Cabinet by Justice Minister (...)
The Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Simon Harris has said foreign migration policies "cannot be allowed to undermine ours".
He added Ireland will "not provide a loophole for anybody else's migration challenges".
Harris has asked Justice Minister (...)
