Tag: Immigration
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🇸🇴 Five Swedish Politicians of Somali Origin Enter the Riksdag After 2026 Election
Five politicians of Somali origin have entered Sweden’s 349-member Riksdag following the September 2026 election. Representing the Green Party and Left Party across several constituencies, their election marks a notable development in Somali representation in Swedish national politics.
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🇱🇷 Deportees Sent to Liberia: A New Chapter in America’s Expanding Deportation Policy
MONROVIA, LIBERIA — A group of people deported from the United States to Liberia has found itself thousands of miles from home, navigating an unfamiliar country and an uncertain future after being removed under the Trump administration’s expanding immigration enforcement policies. According to reporting by CBS News, the deportees include individuals from countries such as…
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🇨🇦 Canada Expands Military Recruitment to Permanent Residents, Raising Questions About Loyalty, Security and National Service
By panafrican.email | Global Affairs & Defense Canada is widening the pool of people eligible to serve in its armed forces, including permanent residents who are not yet Canadian citizens. The policy is part of a broader effort by Ottawa to address military recruitment challenges, strengthen the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), and attract skilled personnel.…
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🇭🇹 Haitian Student’s Death Highlights Human Cost of TPS Uncertainty in the United States
Springfield, Ohio — Pierre Damas Bel was only 20 years old, but he had already begun building a future around education, service and the pursuit of medicine. A high-achieving graduate of high school in Springfield, Ohio, Bel had recently begun studying physiology and neuroscience at Wright State University, with aspirations of eventually becoming a doctor.…
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🇱🇷 Liberia Receives First 20 Deportees as U.S. Begins Plan to Send Up to 1,200 Third-Country Migrants
MONROVIA, Liberia — August 21, 2026 — Liberia has received the first group of migrants deported from the United States under a controversial new third-country transfer arrangement that could bring as many as 1,200 people to Liberia over the next 12 months. The first batch of 20 deportees arrived at Roberts International Airport on Thursday,…
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🇬🇭 Ghana’s Anti-Corruption Battle Reaches Former Finance Minister: A Test for the Rule of Law
A red notice from Interpol and an extradition request to the United States mark a dramatic turn in Ghana’s pursuit of a former finance minister accused of masterminding a multimillion-dollar scheme that allegedly defrauded the state. Ghana’s former Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has been formally charged with 78 counts of corruption. The charges stem from…
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🇸🇴 90,000 Somalis ‘Out by Dawn’ as Trump’s “Deportation Troops” Empty Minneapolis
View this post on Instagram In this 8 December 2025 video, host Cash Jordan talks about how as the Trump administration brings a “law enforcement” surge to MN in an attempt to crack down on various types of fraud, the fraud itself is still growing. Meanwhile, sanctuary rioters and activists are saying these actions affect even…
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🇬🇭🇮🇱 Ghana hits back at Israel with reciprocal deportations
Ghana has expelled three Israeli citizens after accusing Israeli authorities of mistreating and wrongfully deporting several Ghanaians who arrived in Tel Aviv last week. The move is Ghana’s way of signalling that it will not tolerate what it sees as unfair treatment of its nationals abroad. In a statement issued on 10 December, the Ministry…
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🇺🇸 U.S. President Calls Somali Immigrants “Garbage”
Somali American community members serve a home-made lunch in Minneapolis, Minnesota. U.S. President Donald Trump has called the Somali immigrants in Minnesota “garbage.” Somali nationals in the U.S. are a primary target in the Trump administration’s new directive to freeze all immigration applications from 19 countries already subject to a travel ban. This pause includes…
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🇬🇧🇬🇭 Teenager taken to Ghana away from UK ‘gang culture’ to stay for now, court rules
A British teenager whose parents left him in Ghana, fearing he was at risk from “gang culture” in the UK, should stay there until at least the end of his GCSE exams, a judge sitting at London’s high court has ruled. The boy took legal action against his parents, seeking a court order that would…