23 July 2021 Julie Hyland UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government’s Nationality and Border Bill has passed its second reading in parliament by 366 votes to 265. The Bill criminalises asylum-seekers and migrants, overturns the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention and significantly strengthens the power of border agencies. Its reading coincided with the government’s […]
22 July 2021 Crossings come months after other Spanish enclave of Ceuta witnessed influx of arrivals amid Madrid-Rabat dispute. Melilla and Ceuta – a second Spanish enclave also on Africa’s Mediterranean coast – are popular crossing points for migrants and refugees seeking a better life in Europe [File: Jesus Blasco de Avellaneda/Reuters] More than 200 […]
22 July 2021 Taimour Lay A Ghanaian business owner wants to visit London for a conference. A Ugandan student is awarded a scholarship at Oxford University. A political activist from Zimbabwe seeks humanitarian protection. A Sudanese girl stranded in Greece dreams of joining her refugee brother in Birmingham.Every year, just like these people I have […]
22 July 2021 By Stina Sanders Boundaries. If you’ve not heard the word in your therapy sessions, you’ll have seen it shared across social media. It’s the current buzzword which emphasises the importance of protecting our own physical and emotional space while encouraging others to do the same. The idea of setting boundaries is this: by expressing what […]
22 July 2021 By Emma Okonji Experts in regional trade from across Africa and Europe have called for harmonisation of regulatory framework across the 54 African countries that are driving the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA), in order to have successful trade integration among member state. They advised policy makers to develop clear regulatory […]
22 July 2021 Sudan borders Egypt to the south, with both countries having a coastline along the Red Sea. The two countries share a 1,276 kilometers long border that runs eastwards from Gabal El Uweinat, a tripod area on the Sudanese-Egyptian-Libyan border, along the 22nd parallel north. The border follows a straight line from the tripod to Lake Nasser then […]
July 21, 2021 By Vincent Ujumadu There is a renewed land dispute between Aguleri and Umuleri, both in Anambra East local government area, with a 95-year old man, Elder Nnake Chibuzo leading his Ikenga Umueri community in a protest against Aguleri. The two communities have been engaged in a protracted land dispute that led to […]
Jul 20, 2021 By DNA Web Team With Jeff Bezos set to follow Richard Branson to the edge of space, here’s what it means and how the boundary between Earth and space is defined. Pic courtesy: Richard Gatley/ Unsplash The billionaire space travel month will see a second private endeavour as the wealthiest of the […]
19 JULY 2021 ‘Karman Line’ is named after Theodore von Karman, a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist. he was the first person to attempt to derive such an altitude limit. But what is Karman Line, and what is the debate around ‘space’ and ‘not space’? Find out here. The Karman Line, the most commonly […]
March 2020 By Jakob Rauschendorfer and Ben Shepherd This paper examines the impact of the South Sudanese civil war on trade in East Africa. In a first step, we employ a gravity model to examine the impact of civil conflict on the trade of neighbouring countries in a general sense and conduct a counterfactual simulation […]
