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The Trump Admin Is Unraveling Deportation Protections For Thousands of Nicaraguan And Honduran Immigrants
Tens of thousands of Nicaraguan and Honduran immigrants who were previously shielded from deportation could soon become more vulnerable as the Trump administration rolls back legal protections for both groups. On Monday, the Department of Homeland...

Trump Is Unraveling Deportation Protections For Thousands of Nicaraguan And Honduran Immigrants
Tens of thousands of Nicaraguan and Honduran immigrants who were previously shielded from deportation could soon become more vulnerable as the Trump administration rolls back legal protections for both groups. On Monday, the Department of Homeland...

CASA Condemns Threat to TPS Protections for Cameroon and Afghanistan
On June 25, following the court hearing in CASA v. Noem, national immigration advocacy organization CASA stands firm in its commitment to protect Cameroonian and Afghan Temporary Protected Status holders from the dangerous and unlawful termination...

Federal Police dismantle immigrant smuggling ring
A Federal Police operation launched this morning (Jul. 8) in São Paulo city has dismantled a criminal organization specializing in immigrant smuggling. The crackdown was dubbed VAR, and was supported by the Ministry of Justice and international...

To industrialise Cameroon: African Minerals Dev't Centre, partners urge ...
This was among the major recommendations participants handed down at the end of a weeklong evaluation that ended on July 4 in Yaounde; of Cameroon´s mineral resources, carried out by a group of development partners to see whether the government...

Cameroon Unveils Seven-Pillar AI Strategy to Become Africa’s Leading Hub by 2040
• Cameroon launched its AI strategy to become Africa’s leading hub by 2040, with goals for jobs, training, and GDP growth. • It focuses on governance, infrastructure, local language models, edge computing, talent, and regional cooperation. • The...

Cameroon Now Equipped with Advanced Defensive, Offensive Intelligence Capabilities – Dr. Guy Gweth
(Business in Cameroon) - In preparation for establishing a National Center for Economic and Strategic Intelligence in Cameroon, agents from the General Directorate of External Research, one of the country's primary intelligence agencies, received...

Why Are Immigrants From Tropical Countries Coming to This Arctic Outpost?
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. On Saturday night, I had Indian food at a mosque potluck. The next day, I went to an African church service full of gospel music. In between, I went to a...

Cameroon's next generation is ready to take on the country's technological challenges
Children in the technology laboratory. Image from Cynthia Ebot Takang. Used with permission Across Cameroon, especially during summer holidays (end of July to beginning of September), a growing number of parents are enrolling their children in...
Cameroon holds forum on AI opportunities, challenges
YAOUNDE, July 7 (Xinhua) -- A two-day forum opened in Cameroon on Monday to discuss the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) for the Central African country. According to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, which...

Inside Kondengui prison: ground zero of Cameroon’s war on dissent
In the visitors’ area in the courtyard of Kondengui maximum security prison, French-dubbed Nollywood films play on a TV as inmates and their guests hug each other and laugh. The green, red and yellow flag of Cameroon flutters above. The happy...

'Never meant to last a quarter of a century': TPS ends for some immigrants
WASHINGTON — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ended temporary protections Monday for nationals from Nicaragua and Honduras, opening up roughly 76,000 people to deportations by early September. The move is the latest effort by President...

Trump administration moves to end TPS for Honduran, Nicaraguan immigrants
[LAUREN KEENAN] The Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration is planning to end Temporary Protected Status for people from Honduras and Nicaragua who are currently living in the United States. TPS is a humanitarian...

Where to experience Black culture in Paris
Creative Black minds and artisans have been present in Paris’s renowned art and food scene since the 1920s. American writers like Langston Hughes and James Baldwin found a home in the city’s bustling jazz cafes, and their future works have laid...
How Black culture has shaped Paris—and where to experience it
Travelers searching for immersive Black or African cultural experiences in Paris can start with a stroll through Marché Dejean in the city’s La Goutte d’Or district, also known as Little Africa. Photograph by Michael Zumstein, Agence...

U.S. to revoke protected status for immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua
The Trump administration said Monday it will soon revoke the legal immigration status of more than 70,000 immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua, its latest effort to curtail humanitarian programs that allow foreigners to stay in the U.S....

Four Dead, Families Displaced as Flood Ravages Cameroon’s Adamawa Region
Authorities in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon have called for vigilance and better urban planning to avoid future disasters following the death of four persons and the displacement of families after heavy torrential rains and floods. Local sources...

UNESCO Closely Monitors Damage to Cultural Heritage Caused by Armed Conflicts, Says Director-General Azoulay
UNESCO is actively monitoring damage to cultural heritage caused by armed conflicts, said Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, in her speech at the opening of the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations...

Prevalence, Etiological Patterns and Factors Associated with Bacteraemia Among Febrile Children with Sickle Cell Anaemia in Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder caused by a mutation in the β-globin gene, a single base substitution changes from GAG to GTG, leading to the replacement of glutamic acid with valine at the sixth position of...

My community in Cameroon needed clean water. So I became our advocate.
In 2021, as the head of a health facility in the heart of a conflict-affected area of the Northwest region of Cameroon, I witnessed firsthand the challenges that arose from limited resources and ongoing insecurity. Among the most pressing issues...