Speaking to the BBC on Monday, Nigeria’s representative in the UK, Sarafa Tunji Isola, said that the targeted approach taken by the British government has created a “travel apartheid” by limiting travel to and from some African nations. Nigeria became the latest country to be added to the UK’s travel …
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A coalition of more than 130 groups calling itself the ‘Our World is Not for Sale Network’ penned a letter to the international trade bloc on Wednesday, saying a WTO ministerial conference set for next week should not go ahead until the organization approves a waiver on IP rights known …
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The one good thing about the last 18 months is that it has exposed who were the genuine supporters of basic human freedoms and who were not. Goodness me, there’ve been quite a few surprises, haven‘t there? If I had said to you back in 2019 that, under the guise …
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Coinciding with the Biden administration’s massive flip-flop on Covid protocol, which now requires that Americans – regardless of their vaccination status – go back to donning masks in public, Forbes published an article suggesting English speakers are the most pervasive super-spreaders of the coronavirus. At first, I was tempted to …
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The network has also noted the term’s “specific meaning in South African history” as part of its reasoning for the move, according to an “internal advisory note” reported in the Australian. While some of the network’s coverage has managed to stay away from using the word, it has still made …
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In a message to her 6.3 million followers on the platform, the 23-year-old said the ongoing cross-border violence was a “crime” against Palestinians. “We have to stand up for Jewish people all over the world facing anti-Semitic violence and threats, but we must also call out a state upholding apartheid …
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Ten years in prison is a tough sentence and usually reserved as punishment for crimes at the serious end of the scale – child grooming, sexual assault, fraud, various firearms offences, and failing to disclose the travel destination you’ve just returned home from. Thanks to Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s announcement …
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