"Africans Say Europe Is No Promised Land"

Africans Say Europe Is No Promised Land
Five years ago, Guy left a pregnant wife in Ivory Coast, trekked across west Africa and crossed into Europe by clambering over a barbed-wire fence into the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Morocco's northern tip. Today, the former factory worker has yet to find the promised land he had hoped for in Europe, seen by many Africans as a place of relative peace, political stability and bountiful jobs

'Africa's poor hammer on Europe's door'
President Thabo Mbeki on Friday accused the countries of the North of having the wherewithal, but lacking sufficient will to help end poverty in Africa.

500 dumped in desert
African immigrants attempting to reach Spain are being deported by Morocco to the Sahara Desert without food or drink, Spanish Press reports said yesterday. Non-governmental organisations in Spain are critical of Madrid’s decision to start expelling illegal migrants from west and central Africa back over the Moroccan border, saying they risk dying in the desert or being mistreated by Moroccan police.

New entrants to join Security Council
THE UN General Assembly will on Monday elect five new non-permanent members of the Security Council, including Congo, Ghana, Qatar and Slovakia, a UN spokeswoman said overnight.

Peacetime Sudan deadly too
Hundreds of thousands of people lured back to southern Sudan have high hopes of peace after a 21-year civil war but they're faced with chronic food shortage, poor infrastructure and desolate homelands peppered with landmines

AU mediator admits stagnation of Darfur peace talks
The African Union (AU) mediator in the Darfur conflict in western Sudan acknowledged on Friday criticism by UN chief Kofi Annan about the stagnation of peace talks between the government and rebel groups.

Nigerians Living in Fear in China
I want to comment on the continous detention of Nigerians in China as a result of the prohibition of visa extention on the Nigeria passport. Most of the people detained are innocent Nigerians. Their crime is that they have expired visas because their visas could not be extended like those of other foreigners in China.

Nigeria to retrieve stolen Artifacts soon
The hope of getting Nigeria’s stolen or illegally exported artifacts back brightens as the country makes history by ratifying four UNESCO conventions at the same time.

Liberian refugees tip Weah for presidency
Liberian refugees at Oru Camp, Ogun State, have tipped the former World Footballer of the Year, Mr. George Weah, to win the country’s presidential election billed for October 11

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