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Migrants put Sweden’s cozy Nordic Model under pressure
STOCKHOLM | Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander | Thu Jul 7, 2016 | REUTERS Swedes rarely use cash, but building firm owner Piotr can’t get enough of the stuff. Every week, he spends hours racing from ATM to ATM using four credit cards to withdraw up to 80,000 Swedish crowns ($9,400). He needs the cash, he says, to pay the undocumented immigrant workers he … [Read more...] about Migrants put Sweden’s cozy Nordic Model under pressure
The President of Uganda Kept Calling Israel ‘Palestine’ During Netanyahu’s Visit
Siobhan O'Grady | July 5, 2016 | Foreign Policy In July 1976, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s older brother Yonatan flew some 2,300 miles from Israel to Entebbe, Uganda, where pro-Palestinian hijackers were holding more than 100 people hostage in an abandoned airport terminal. The elder Netanyahu was part of a small group of elite Israeli commandos … [Read more...] about The President of Uganda Kept Calling Israel ‘Palestine’ During Netanyahu’s Visit
Zimbabwe shuts down in peaceful protest against corruption
Reuters in Harare | Wednesday 6 July 2016 | The Guardian Stay-away day fronted by #ThisFlag sees foreign banks and stores close doors in Harare to protest against injustice Zimbabweans have stayed at home and foreign banks and most businesses in the capital, Harare, have shut down operations in one of the biggest – and most peaceful – stay-away … [Read more...] about Zimbabwe shuts down in peaceful protest against corruption
Enough is enough, says the man behind Zimbabwe’s shutdown
Staff Writer | July 06 2016 | Daily News WEDNESDAY is about telling the politicians in Zimbabwe that "enough is enough"‚ the man behind the call for the stayaway told a South African audience. Speaking to Talk Radio 702’s Koketso Sachane‚ Pastor Evan Mawarire said he had started the #ThisFlag movement a month and a half ago to get his countrymen to unite against … [Read more...] about Enough is enough, says the man behind Zimbabwe’s shutdown
Protest strike hits Zimbabwe as pressure on Mugabe grows
Agency Staff | July 06 2016 | Daily News Riot police patrolled through Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Wednesday as a call for a national strike against President Robert Mugabe’s economic policies closed businesses and crippled the public transport system. The strike follows days of unrest over the government’s failure to pay civil servants’ salaries, a currency … [Read more...] about Protest strike hits Zimbabwe as pressure on Mugabe grows
Israel’s Netanyahu seeks to make new friends in historic first visit to Africa
Rush Englash | July 5, 2016 | The Washington Post NAIROBI — “Israel is coming back to Africa, and Africa is coming back to Israel,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in a joint news conference in Kenya’s capital Tuesday. The occasion marked the first official visit by an Israeli premier to sub-Saharan Africa in 30 years. … [Read more...] about Israel’s Netanyahu seeks to make new friends in historic first visit to Africa
Italian police smash suspected people-smuggling ring, arrest dozens
Gavin Jones | Mon Jul 4, 2016 | Reuters Italian police on Monday arrested 25 Eritreans, 12 Ethiopians and an Italian that they said belonged to an organization that had smuggled thousands of migrants into Europe from Africa. The arrests were made in ten cities across Italy, Sicilian police said, and the suspects were accused of people smuggling, drug trafficking and … [Read more...] about Italian police smash suspected people-smuggling ring, arrest dozens
Eritrean smuggler trial in Sicily has wrong man, say former victims
Lorenzo Tondo and Meron Estefanos in Palermo and Patrick Kingsley | Sunday 3 July 2016 | The Guardian Family of Medhanie Berhe and victims of Medhanie Mered to claim mistaken identity by British and Italian police The trial of an alleged Eritrean smuggler extradited to Italy will formally begin in Sicily this week, with two of the smuggler’s former … [Read more...] about Eritrean smuggler trial in Sicily has wrong man, say former victims
Eritrea: call for Red Cross to urgently visit political prisoners
Martin Plaut | 24 June 2016 | martinplaut.wordpress.com Eritrea’s Foreign Minister, Osman Saleh, maintained in an interview with Radio France International that political prisoners arrested and held without trial since September 2001 are ‘all alive’. Now a statement has been released calling for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to visit the … [Read more...] about Eritrea: call for Red Cross to urgently visit political prisoners
Islands enter legal battle
Amira Howeidy | 23 June, 2016 | Al-Ahram A ruling by the Adminstrative Court nullifying the Egyptian-Saudi maritime border deal puts the government in a legal and political predicament, reports Amira Howeidy Few expected that less than three months after Egypt ceded two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia a court ruling would nullify the deal and declare that they … [Read more...] about Islands enter legal battle