DHAKA: Parvin Begum, who saw her home on a secluded island in northern Bangladesh steadily devoured by floods this month, feels lucky. She received some money before the disaster hit under a new form of aid, used for the first time in Bangladesh by the government and humanitarian agencies. It gives funding to vulnerable people […]
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Grief-struck families of Sudan’s revolution seek justice
Amidst mounds of sand capped by hand-written signs naming the dead, Khadom embraces the tomb of her son, one of the more than 200 killed in Sudan’s months-long turmoil. It was an April morning when a freshly-shaven Al-Moez drank his tea before heading out to the office from the modest home he shared with his […]
US targets families for deportation to discourage migrants
US immigration authorities want to deport recently arrived families who are in the United States illegally to discourage the surging numbers of Central Americans arriving from Mexico, a government official leading the effort said on Wednesday. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will target for deportation families that have received a removal order from a […]
Anti-apartheid activists laid to rest in peace, 50 years on
Pulane Koboekae looked pensively at the seven nooses suspended over a trap door in Pretoria Central Prison where her brother Richard Motsoahae was hanged by South Africa’s apartheid regime in 1964. Then she pulled out a white tissue and sobbed silently. “It has opened up old wounds. I’m feeling mixed emotions. I feel sick, but […]