Author: Carlotta Murrin

Remembering The Genocide Of The Rohingya People In Myanmar

Members of the Rohingya community living in refugee camps in Bangladesh and those still living in Myanmar staged rallies for “Genocide Remembrance Day” this week, marking five years since nearly 750,000 Rohingyas living in Myanmar were forced to leave the country, with accusations of murders and rapes taking place during

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ECOWAS Revokes Economic Sanctions Against Mali

After the Malian military regime agreed that it would hold elections in 2024, reversing a previous decision to postpone elections until 2026, the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, also known as ECOWAS, has lifted economic sanctions placed against Mali in

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Protests Over Rising Prices In Sierra Leone Turn Deadly

Protests sparked as a result of rising prices in Sierra Leone have turned deadly, with at least four police officers and an unknown number of protestors killed. Videos show police officers opening fire on protestors in the streets of Freetown, the nation’s capital. Protests escalated this week after protestors began

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Turkey Resists Finland And Sweden’s Admittance To NATO

The June 2022 NATO summit in Madrid was “not the deadline” for Turkey to give the green light to Sweden and Finland’s entrance into the coalition, says Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin. Though Sweden and Finland applied to join NATO shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Turkey has remained

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Under New Policy, Asylum Seekers in the UK Will Be Deported to Rwanda

The High Court of the United Kingdom has upheld a new policy that will deport asylum seekers from the United Kingdom to Rwanda. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson struck a 120-million-pound ($148 million) deal with the government of Rwanda to send migrants to the Central African nation, with additional payments

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