DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The West African nation of Ghana is the latest in a growing list of African countries that have received third-country nationals deported by the U.S. or agreed to receive them, a controversial approach whose legality lawyers for the deportees have questioned. Other African nations that have received such deportees from the U.S. include Eswatini, Rwanda and South...
The Immigration and Citizenship Agency (ICA) of Somalia today announced the official launch of its electronic visa service (e-Visa/eTAS), which will be operational from September 1, 2025. Accessible online via the www.evisa.gov.so portal, this system aims to modernize entry procedures and facilitate the process for foreign travelers. Thanks to this platform, presented by VisasNews a few months ago, foreign nationals will...
NAIROBI (Xinhua) — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Wednesday that more than 82,000 people are currently missing across Africa due to armed conflict and violence. “This figure represents just a small fraction of those who have disappeared,” ICRC Regional Director for Africa Patrick Youssef said in a statement issued in the...
(ERGO) – Over 550 displaced children living in nine camps on the outskirts of Baidoa have been out of school since April after the UN’s children’s agency UNICEF cut funding to local NGO, Barak, which had built and operated their school. The sudden closure of Qaydar-ade school has left the children without education. Parent Yusuf Adan...
NAIROBI, Kenya – American tech giants are tapping into Kenya’s desperate youth labor market to fuel the development of artificial intelligence, but civil society groups warn the promise of opportunity masks a deeper crisis of exploitation. In what activists are calling “AI sweatshops,” thousands of young Kenyans are being hired to train artificial intelligence systems for...
(ERGO) – Hundreds of children in Jana Abdalle, an area west of Kismayo city, are out of school due to a lack of educational facilities and the poverty of their families. Parents in this part of Jubaland, whose livelihoods have been devastated by repeated droughts and conflict, cannot afford to send them to schools in bigger...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — When 19-year-old Nigus Yosef told his parents he was going to leave home in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and try to get to Saudi Arabia, they begged him not to go. Two of their children had already made the crossing, via the Gulf of Aden and then war-torn Yemen. Yosef’s brother...
Nairobi (WDN) –– A devastating fire swept through the Somali neighborhood of Islii in Nairobi on Saturday afternoon destroying property and causing significant losses to local business owners. Islii, one of the city’s largest commercial hubs for the Somali community, is known for its bustling marketplaces and vibrant trade activity. The fire broke out at...
The Anti-Counterfeit Authority seized bags of counterfeit sugar and jerricans of cooking oil worth Ksh10 million that were being smuggled from Somalia into Kenya. In a statement on its social media account on Thursday, August 21, the authority claimed that, in collaboration with a Multi-Agency Team, it intercepted three lorries at Sabaki Security Patrol Point,...
(ERGO) – Displaced women in Baidoa have resorted to begging for food and income from local farmers after a critical aid programme was halted in May. Many of these women are the sole providers for their families, and are now depending on the generosity of farmers currently harvesting their crops. Salado Nur Ishaq, a mother of...