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MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has directed the immigration authority to decide on whether or not to allow a US citizen of Indian origin who has been convicted for possession of child pornography to travel to Mumbai. A bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and Milind Jadhav on Thursday passed the order on a petition filed last year by the 57-year-old chartered accountant who lives in Connecticut. The man, also an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI), had moved to the US in 1990. On August 31, 2018, he left from New York to visit his ailing and aged parents in Mumbai. On arrival…

Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale has sent a strong warning to politicians spreading posts reportedly written on his instagram page. In one of the posts making the rounds, Shatta Wale reportedly criticized former President and flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama for saying he launched the Free SHS policy in 2015. However, in a message on social media, the Dancehall artiste asked those spreading the false statements to ‘STOP’ He wrote: “Stop dragging me into matters of politics when I haven’t said anything. I see prominent people in our country posting photoshop statements about…

Priscilla Serwaa Manu, a nurse from Mampong Nursing Training School is the newly crowned Queen of Miss Health Ghana. It was a tale of beauty and elegance at this year’s grand finale held at the GNAT Hall, as Serwaa Manu saw off competition from nine other finalists to win herself a brand new 2017 Hyundai Accent as well as securing a one-year health ambassadorial deal. Akambey Awontemi Isabella, a medical student at the University of Development Studies was the first runner-up for this year’s competition while Gracia Helarie Fraikue, a student of the University of Health and Allied Sciences was…

With the potential risk of famine in Yemen and South Sudan, Save the Children is calling for an urgent and large-scale global response to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe. An estimated 11 million children under five are facing extreme hunger or starvation[i] across eleven countries in Africa, the Caribbean, Middle East and Asia, new analysis by Save the Children reveals, with the potential risk of famine in Yemen and South Sudan. The aid agency is calling for an urgent and large-scale global response to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe. Save the Children is particularly concerned for children in five ‘hunger…

In early November 2020, military confrontations between federal and regional forces in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which borders both Sudan and Eritrea, led the Government to declare it in a State of Emergency. Since then, Ethiopia’s Tigray region has reportedly continued to be affected by incidents of armed conflict. Since early November, Eastern Sudan received large numbers of refugees through at least three border points, and there are currently no clear signs that this refugee flow is coming to an end. The population in the Tigray region of Ethiopia includes approximately 600,000 people dependent on food relief assistance (more than 400,000…

Three straight years of drought have wiped out harvests and hampered people’s access to food and COVID-19 is compounding their suffering, WFP warns. An estimated 1.5 million people need urgent help. Those experiencing “crisis” or “emergency” hunger conditions—three times the number forecast mid-year—are mostly children and women. Of the ten hardest-hit southern districts, Amboasary is the epicenter; families barely scrape together enough food with raw mangoes and tamarind often their only food source. Mothers can no longer breastfeed and are forced to give their infants water which is in scarce supply. A WFP assessment in Amboasary last month found three…

The campaign will target children in 46 districts in 16 governorates, including Baghdad, Babylon, Anbar, Dahuk, Erbil, Kerbala, Kirkuk Missan, Najaf, Ninewa, Salah Al-Din, Suleymaniya, Wassit and Basra. On Sunday, Iraqi health authorities, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF began a mass polio vaccination campaign targeting more than 1.9 million children under the age of five. The campaign will be conducted in locations across Iraq, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which, like previous disease outbreaks and humanitarian emergencies has disrupted access to essential health services, including routine immunization. The campaign is urgent because even brief interruptions…

On October 8, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published the “Strengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States” interim final rule, amending the existing four-tier wage structure governing the calculation of prevailing wage levels. The new regulation significantly increases the wage levels of the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) wage survey across all occupations.  It affects H-1B (Specialty Occupation), H-1B1 (Free Trade Agreement Workers in a Specialty Occupation from Chile and Singapore) and E-3 (Specialty Occupation Workers from Australia) employment-based nonimmigrant petitions, as well as permanent labor certification program (“PERM”) applications.  The interim final…

Save the Children is deeply worried about lone child refugees arriving separated from their parents from Ethiopia into Sudan, as they are at risk of exploitation and abuse. Their number could be in the hundreds, the child rights organization warned today. So far, 139 children who were separated from their parents or caregivers have been registered at just one of several entry points along the border, Save the Children said, so the total number could be far higher. In total at least 43,000 refugees have already crossed the border from Ethiopia to Sudan so far. Save the Children emphasizes the urgent need…

A new analysis, seen by the BBC, suggests the goals of the UN Paris climate agreement are getting “within reach.” The Climate Action Tracker group looked at new climate promises from China and other nations, along with the carbon plans of US President-elect Joe Biden. These commitments would mean the rise in world temperatures could be held to 2.1C by the end of this century. Previous estimates indicated up to 3C of heating, with disastrous impacts. But the experts are worried the long-term optimism is not matched by short-term plans to cut CO2. For more than a decade, researchers from the Climate…