A family displaced by prolonged drought in Ethiopia now live in a makeshift tent in Mogadishu, Somalia. June 2023. Credit: IOM/Muse Mohammed Opinion by Sudip Ranjan Basu – Chen Wang – Monica Das (bangkok, thailand) Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan 17 (IPS) – As the world …
Read More »Sadiq Khan: plans to cut migration will trigger London recruitment crisis
Sadiq Khan has said ministers’ plans to cut legal migration will lead to a “full-blown recruitment crisis” in London, with vacancies in hospitality alone still higher than they were pre-pandemic. Net migration to the UK boosted the UK population by 672,000 in the year ending June 2023, and about half …
Read More »UK unveils package of measures aimed at curbing migration
UK Home Secretary James Cleverly has announced new measures to cut record net migration figures. James Cleverly pledged to slash arrivals by around 300,000 a year by making it much harder for foreign workers to bring family members and hiking the minimum earnings needed to secure two key types …
Read More »Migration Puts the Brakes on Venezuela’s Vehicles
On residential streets of Caracas with little traffic it is possible to see cars that have been abandoned by their owners for years. They probably migrated from Venezuela or cannot afford to repair and sell their vehicles. CREDIT: Humberto Márquez / IPS by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Monday, October 23, 2023 Inter …
Read More »Fentanyl, Illegal Migration and Guns Top Agenda as Blinken Visits Mexico
President Biden’s top cabinet officials will seek to forge a united front with Mexico during a series of meetings in Mexico City on Thursday that will focus on drug and gun trafficking, as well as illegal migration. The U.S. officials — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary …
Read More »Peru Faces Challenge of Climate Change-Driven Internal Migration
by Mariela Jara (lima) Thursday, September 28, 2023 Inter Press Service LIMA, Sep 28 (IPS) – Nearly 700,000 people have migrated internally in Peru due to the effects of climate change. This mass displacement is a clear problem in this South American country, one of the most vulnerable to the global …
Read More »Safe, Regular & Orderly Migration for Inclusion and Sustainability
Shinkiari, Pakistan Opinion by Vanessa Steinmayer, Simon Graham (bangkok, thailand) Friday, September 08, 2023 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 08 (IPS) – In Asia and the Pacific, migration is again on the rise. In 2020, almost 109 million people lived in a country other than that of their birth. They …
Read More »Pacific Island Countries To Develop Advanced Warning System for Tuna Migration
Pacific Community-led regional initiative aims to assist countries in the region with mitigating the impacts of climate change-induced tuna migration. Credit: Pacific Community/SPC by Neena Bhandari (sydney) Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Inter Press Service SYDNEY, Apr 19 (IPS) – Climate change and warming ocean waters are causing tuna fisheries to migrate …
Read More »Migration Tops Agenda as Biden Visits Canada
OTTAWA — Nearly every day at Roxham Road, people cross over from the United States into the arms of the Canadian police and ask for asylum. When President Biden arrives in Canada’s capital on Thursday for his first visit to the country since taking the Oval Office, the influx of …
Read More »Disregard trending messages on 5G migration. It?s fraud – Nigerian Police cybercrime unit warns public
The Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC) has warned members of the public and strategic stakeholders in national security matters to be wary of a suspected ploy by subversive elements to prepare the ground for likely phishing and cyber-attacks through the deliberate publication and dissemination of a WhatsApp message, currently …
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