UK Plan to Deport Asylum Seekers to Rwanda Considered “Cruel”

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Fol­low­ing a recent agree­ment signed between the British and Rwan­dan gov­ern­ments on asy­lum seek­ers in the Unit­ed King­dom, sev­er­al inter­na­tion­al aid agen­cies report that some asy­lum seek­ers in the UK have gone into hid­ing for fear of being sent to Rwan­da. Under the agree­ment, peo­ple sus­pect­ed of ille­gal­ly enter­ing the UK would be flown to…

Trump Uses Slur to Describe African Nations

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In reac­tion to the racist and dis­parag­ing remarks made recent­ly by U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in the pres­ence of con­gress­men, call­ing Haiti and African coun­tries “s##holes,” there has been a wave of con­dem­na­tion in the US and around the world. What is unfor­tu­nate about this, how­ev­er, is the fact that this came from the most pow­er­ful man…