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The number of refugees has fallen for the first time in a decade, but millions of people are still trapped

UNHCRThe flagship Global Trends Report launched in Geneva by High Commissioner Barham Salih shows this the number of global refugees falls three percent by 2025 to 41.6 million. About 5.4 million people fled to other countries to escape violence and persecution so far this year. Heading home Returns are also increasing rapidly: 14.7 million refugees return to their regions or …

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June 12: Obasa reaffirms faith in democracy, Renewed Hope agenda and calls for peace in the APC

Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Mudashiru Obasa, has reaffirmed his implicit faith in Nigeria’s democratic odyssey and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s major agenda of renewed hope. He also called for calm and rapprochement with the All Progressives Congress, APC, as Nigeria celebrates Democracy Day. In a Democracy Day statement signed by Adeshina Oyetayo, his Special …

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Xenophobia: “They treated us like slaves, they killed my husband” – An evacuated Nigerian woman recounts her ordeal in South Africa

…He says discrimination and violence against Nigerians has persisted for years …Reveals the emotional escape during the FG evacuation flight Daud Olatunji One Nigerian returnee, Emilia Godwin, has recounted harrowing experiences of alleged xenophobic violence, discrimination and intimidation in South Africa, describing how Nigerians were “treated like slaves” and repeatedly subjected to physical attacks before she was eventually evacuated as …

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World News Brief: Türkiye condemns unrest in Northern Ireland, jobs threatened by spread of animal disease, heatwave triggers public health crisis in Europe

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed his concerns on Thursday over the unrest and destruction in Northern Ireland following an attack that went viral on social media – and the circulation of police bodycam footage relating to the murder of a student in Southampton by a British-born Sikh. Offering sympathy to the victims and their families, he …

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Gov Sani orders manhunt for attackers of Kaduna Catholic Church

The Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, on Friday condemned the attack on a Catholic Church in the Zangon Kataf local government area of the state. Gunmen suspected to be bandits had earlier on Friday attacked the parish house of the Saint Raphael’s Catholic Church in Zangon Kataf LGA and set fire to the building. They also set ablaze vehicles and …

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CNPP and CNCSO urge Tinubu to ensure former NNPCL boss Kyari appears before investigators – THIS FACILITY

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) and the Coalition of National Civil Society Organizations (CNCSO) have supported the decision of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts to order the arrest of the former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mallam Mele Kyari, for his alleged repeated failure to comply with invitations related to the …

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Three sailors died in the Hormuz attack as the UN warned of wider impacts

The latest attack, which America said was carried out as part of a blockade enforcement operation, involved the Palauan-flagged tanker MT Settebello near the coast of Oman. The backlash by the US and Iran following the suspension of talks to end the war is set to accelerate, with President Trump on social media vowing to hit Iran “very hard” and …

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