When Venezuelan journalist Eulimar Nunez saw the airport chaos triggered by President Donald Trump's now-suspended executive order on immigration, she decided to try to upgrade her status from...
Farhan Ahmed hoped to find refuge in the United States after fleeing death threats in Somalia, but fear over a US crackdown on immigration sent him on another perilous journey -- to Canada. The...
A 36-year-old seamstress, Sherifat Adetunji, on Friday pleaded at a Lagos Island Customary Court that her marriage should be dissolved on grounds that her husband was longer ejaculating inside her...
Mexico is warning its citizens in the US to "take precautions" following the deportation of a Mexican woman who had lived in the US for more than 20 years. In a statement, the foreign ministry said...
Land rights are the key to creating jobs, ending poverty and reducing high living costs in Africa's cities, the World Bank has said. The bank said African countries should reform procedures for...
U. S. President Donald Trump's proposed wall along his country's 3,200-km southern border with Mexico is unlikely to deter migrants fleeing violence, poverty or a lack of opportunities, a Mexican...
Refugees crossing into Canada from US on foot despite freezing temperatures Uncertainty caused by Trump’s policies has pushed asylum seekers to take long, risky routes that in one case cost two...
Kenya’s high court has blocked the government’s bid to close one of the largest refugee camp’s in the world at Dadaab near the border with Somalia and to repatriate Somali refugees. The judge...
The High Court in Kenya has blocked the government's bid to close the largest refugee camp in the world. A directive to shut the Dadaab camp and forcibly repatriate about 260,000 Somali refugees...
.. he walked across USA-Canadian border Immigration and Refugee Board questions legitimacy of birth certificate A 29-year-old Ghanaian asylum seeker's fate will remain in limbo for at least the next...
Access to birth control can be a challenge for women across the world. In Uganda unintended pregnancies are common. According to the 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey, more than four in 10...
The US Department of Justice has defended President Donald Trump's travel ban and urged an appeals court to reinstate it in the interests of national security. A 15-page brief argued it was a "lawful...
About 18 months ago, he was declared “extremely obese” with abnormal fats, which experts claimed, threatened his health; something that triggered the musician, Bice Osei-Kuffour, to embark on a...
Pope Francis on Sunday urged the faithful to pray for unborn children threatened by “the termination of pregnancy” in a throwaway culture marked by falling birthrates. “Every life is sacred....
Teenage pregnancy and unsafe abortions have become a worrying phenomenon in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region. Teenage pregnancies increased from 251 in 2015 to 340 in 2016 while unsafe...
An activist on behalf of refugee rights, Angelina Jolie, 41, has finally spoken out against President Donald Trump's recent policies, including the controversial immigration and Muslim ban. In a New...
Actress and human rights advocate Angelina Jolie on Thursday said U. S. President Donald Trump's executive order barring travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries hurts vulnerable refugees and...
President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that debate about what to call his executive order preventing travelers from seven majority Muslim countries and temporarily barring refugees are irrelevant....
U. N. human rights experts said on Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban on nationals from seven Muslim-majority states contravenes international law and could lead to people denied...
Aydin Sefa Akay is part of a panel of UN judges reviewing the case of a former Rwandan minister A UN legal body has ordered that Turkey release a judge detained in the aftermath of last year's failed...
