The Australian government has rejected an offer by its New Zealand counterpart to take in 150 refugees from those now barricading themselves in at the Manus Island facilities. The offer, first made in 2013, would have seen 150 refugees resettled annually in New Zealand. It was reinstated this weekend, with
The World Health Organization cancelled its appointment of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in response to international outrage. While Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, previously praised Mugabe for improving the public health system in Zimbabwe, critics, however, say that the system has collapsed due to the failure of the
A truck rigged with explosives detonated in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, on Saturday October 14. At least 500 people were killed or seriously injured in the blast. On Sunday, October 15, the death toll stood at 276. That number is expected to rise as bodies are uncovered from the rubble that
Currently, in the midst of a bloody civil war, Yemen is facing what the World Health Organization (WHO) calls the “world’s worst cholera outbreak.” The WHO predicted up to 300,000 people would be infected by August of this year. That number is expected to increase to an estimated one million cases
Germany’s recent election brought an overtly nationalist party into parliament for the first time in over 60 years.The AfD or Alternative for Germany party is a far-right eurosceptic group with anti-immigration and anti-Islamic views. After narrowly missing the threshold to sit in the Bundestag in a 2013 election, the party
A Malta-based aid organization that has rescued 40,000 refugees while crossing the Mediterranean Sea is moving its operations to Asia to help the Rohingya people. The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) suspended its work in the Mediterranean due to the increasingly insecure situation for refugees in both Libya and Europe.
The Australian government is cutting financial support and accommodation for 100 asylum-seekers originally transported from detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island for medical treatment. The group will be issued “final departure Bridging E Visas.” They will no longer receive the $200 a fortnight in government support that they had
The Pakistani Taliban is testing a new recruitment technique: a women’s magazine. The first edition of Sunnat-i-Khaula or “The Way of Khaula,” referring to a female Muslim warrior from the 7th century, was recently published and urges its readers to become involved with the Pakistani Taliban or Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The Trump administration recently ended CIA arms support for anti-Assad rebels in Syria. The covert program, launched by former President Barack Obama in 2013 to pressure Assad to step down, armed and trained select rebel groups. The decision was made after President Donald Trump met with National Security Adviser H.R.
