Kenya abductions: the powerful legal shields citizens and courts can use – expert: Kenya’s national human rights commission recorded 82 abductions or enforced disappearances between June and December 2024. Many of the people reported missing after the country’s anti-tax protests later resurfaced, but some have been found dead. Dozens of young Kenyans reported being snatched …
Khorasan: why many Afghanistan citizens are pushing back against the term’s association with terrorism: The Mausoleum of Ali, which is located in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, is a site of cultural significance for Khorasan. Mushtaq B/Shutterstock Gunmen attacked Moscow’s Crocus City Hall concert venue in March, killing 137 people. The four suspects were purportedly aligned to the …
Some African governments are spending millions to spy on their citizens – stifling debate and damaging democracy: Governments around the world use surveillance technology to monitor external threats to national security. Some African governments are also spending vast sums on mass surveillance of their own citizens. They are using mobile phone spyware, internet interception devices, …
South Africa’s surveillance law is changing but citizens’ privacy is still at risk: In a ringing judgment for the right to privacy, the South African Constitutional Court declared sections of the country’s main communication surveillance law unconstitutional in February 2021. The court gave parliament three years to pass a new law remedying the areas of …
Cameroon’s anglophone conflict has lasted for six years: what citizens say about how to end it: Cameroonians want an end to the six year old armed conflict. Wikimedia Commons The armed conflict in Cameroon between separatist groups and the military is in its sixth year. Armed groups are fighting for secession of the English-speaking north-west …
How citizens could help government with emergency decisions in the next pandemic: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock The UK’s COVID inquiry is putting pandemic policymaking under the microscope. One of the key questions is who should make decisions in an emergency, and how. In a government committee hearing before the inquiry began, Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to Boris …
Windrush compensation scheme: how the UK government is failing its citizens with this ‘belittling and horrible’ process: The Windrush scheme was set up in 2018 to provide documentary confirmation of British citizenship and residency rights for the Windrush generation and other commonwealth citizens, and their children. This came in the wake of the growing scandal …
Kenya’s police are violent, unaccountable and make most citizens feel less safe – should they be abolished?: Kenyans protest against police extrajudicial killings in Nairobi in December 2022. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images A world without the police is inconceivable to many people. The police are viewed as part of modern society’s foundation, ensuring democracy …
Brexit sparked greater attachment to the European Union in UK and EU citizens living abroad, survey suggests: Shutterstock Prior to the 2016 referendum on leaving, polling consistently showed that people in Britain had previously given little thought to the European Union. But a survey of British people living in Europe and UK-resident EU citizens conducted …
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is a chance to reinvent international bailouts so that citizens don’t take most of the pain: Sri Lanka recorded the first casualties from its spiralling economic crisis several days ago, with one protester dead and 24 more injured. This was from police firing gunshots into a crowd who were demanding the …
From mercenaries to citizens: how the Nubians gained acceptance in Uganda: Ugandan strongman General Idi Amin raised the national profile of Uganda Nubians — but they were persecuted soon after his overthrow in 1979. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images It’s been well over a century since the Nubian people arrived in Uganda from what was then …
How poorer citizens pay the price of economic change in the UK: In the 1970s, Britain briefly achieved peak equality. Jean Carlo Emer | Unsplash, FAL Despite the early claims of British prime minister Boris Johnson’s much vaunted plan to cap personal adult social care costs, his government’s new plan – designed to save the …
Citizens of fragile states can fund public services directly – it’s working in Somalia: A person counts Somali shilling notes. AMISOM Public Information/Flickr Two billion people live in countries where development outcomes are affected by conflict and violence. By 2030, up to two-thirds of the world’s extreme poor could live in these fragile regions. Because …
South Africa in the news: Britain significantly expands countries that citizens can travel to: Those countries that UK citizens are prohibited from traveling to is to be reduced from 54 to seven the government announced …: “South Africa” – BingNews Shoaib Malik can contribute big time for Pakistan in T20 WC, says Afridi: Former Pakistan …
South Africa in the news: Postal operators in five African countries will distribute Lleida.net services to all their citizens: Lleida.net (BME: LLN) (EPA: ALLLN) (OTCQX: LLEIF) has signed contracts with the postal operators of five African countries to provide …: “South Africa” – BingNews Slc reds vs Slc greens CRICKET NEWS: SLC Invitational T20 League …
South Africa in the news: Saudi Arabia threatens 3-yr travel ban for citizens who visit ‘red list’ countries, including India: It cited an unnamed interior ministry official as saying some Saudi citizens, who in May were allowed to travel abroad without prior permission from authorities for the first time since March 2020, ha …: “South …
South Africa in the news: UAE bans citizens from travelling to Bangladesh, India, Pakistan: The United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday a travel ban on its citizens to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, …: “South Africa” – BingNews Calls For Government To Reinstate TERS: Business Unity South Africa says unspent government money can be used …
Settled status deadline: what’s next for EU citizens in the UK?: Ascannio/Shutterstock Today, June 30, is the deadline to apply for EU Settled Status. All EU, EEA and Swiss citizens living in the UK (before December 31 2020), as well as their non-EU family members, needed to submit an application to the EU Settlement Scheme …