Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani reports on the trafficking of young women from Nigeria to Italy which, according to international migration organisations, has significantly increased in the past two years. The report, sponsored by Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change, exposes the intricacies of the sex trade. EDO, …
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Funds given to African governments to control migration will mainly benefit European companies, reveal German journalists
Berlin-based daily newspaper TAZ claims that European industrial and arms companies will be among the beneficiaries of plans to grant financial aid to African countries that keep migrants away from Europe, take back failed asylum-seekers and introduce biometric controls at their borders. “The funds which African countries have been promised to help them fight migration will find their way, first …
Read More »Mugabe to stand for election again in 2018
Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party has declared President Robert Mugabe as its candidate for the next presidential election in 2018. By then he will be aged 94. His supporters broke into thunderous applause and chanted “tongai, tongai baba” [rule, rule father] as the Zanu-PF annual conference nominated Mugabe on Saturday in the south-eastern town of Masvingo . Mugabe has been in …
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