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Three months into the rollout of the first phase of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the International Rescue Committee (IRC) warns that availability of clear information and support services are critical for the more than 1.8 million Venezuelans in Colombia to successfully access the program. An analysis of data from October 2020 to July 2021 via the IRC’s InfoPa’lante—a platform part of the Global SignPost project with critical information and orientation for Venezuelans—revealed an increase in the needs of people to access information on protection and regularization services in Colombia. Since launching operations, InfoPa’lante has received over 220,000 visits from…

Hong Kong activists are working in the shadows to preserve digital backups of their democracy movement as the physical symbols of their resistance, including an opposition newspaper and a museum, are purged from the city’s streets. In the end, it was food safety inspectors that finished Hong Kong’s museum to those killed in the Tiananmen Square protests — the only memorial of its kind within China to victims of the 1989 crackdown. Its exhibitions documented Beijing’s decision to use tanks to quell democracy protests in the Chinese capital and Hong Kong’s three-decade history of holding annual candlelight vigils for those…

Premier League champions Manchester City were reported to be closing in on a deal late Thursday to bring Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo back to England. Despite Juventus insisting the 36-year-old was staying with the Serie A giants, media reports in Italy suggested that the former Real Madrid and Manchester United star has decided to leave. Sky Sport Italia claimed the Portugal captain has even cleaned out his locker in the dressing room at Juventus and is reluctant to make himself available to face Empoli this weekend. If a deal is to be reached, the clock is ticking with the transfer…

Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State nearly three months ago, the school’s head teacher said on Thursday. Heavily armed criminals snatched 136 pupils from the seminary in Tegina on May 30 in one of a series of mass abductions targeting schools and colleges in Nigeria since December. Six of the pupils died in captivity and a further 15 escaped in June, according to school officials. “The pupils have all been released. We are now conveying them home,” seminary head Abubakar Alhassan told AFP by telephone. “I…

Bodies were strewn face-down in a shallow canal at the scene of twin blasts outside Kabul airport on Thursday, as wounded people in blood- soaked clothes were ferried away in wheelbarrows. The coordinated explosions tore through crowds of people hoping to board evacuation flights to safety, away from the country’s new Taliban rulers. Graphic footage shared on social media showed men and women in a tangled mess in the shin-deep water of a drainage canal. Stunned survivors pulled themselves to their feet, while others desperately shouted for help in searching the carnage for loved ones. “These are dead bodies laying…

Ghana premier league chamapions, Accra Hearts of oak has denied the rumours of midfielder Salifu Ibrahim been officially bid by Belgian side Royal Antwerp. It has been reported earlier that Hearts of Oak has receieved a $600,000 transfer offer from Royal Antwerp for star midfielder Ibrahim Salifu but the club has released statement to deny the circulting story and has tempted to saction media firms who concocted stories about the club. Salifu joined the pbobians during the second transfer window of the ended GPL 2020/21 season from Techiman Eleven Wonders and he is a player Hearts would count on him…

Ultras group of Ghana premier league giants Asante kotoko has released a press statement asking for the sacking of head coach Marieno Barreto. The portuguese manager guided “The porcupine Warriors” to second spot of the 2020/21 GPL season after taking the mantle from caretaker Johnson Smith. Vocal Barretto granted many radio interviews after the season before leaving to his country Portugal, which kotoko’s ULTRAS GROUP feels some ultrances made by the gaffer were disgracing, image tarnishing and reputation damaging to the club and had called on managements, Board of Directors and the clubs’s patron, Otumfour Osei Tutu II (Asante Hene)…

National Division One Zone II side, Samartex 1996 have announced Kobina Amissah as their head coach. Samartex mutual parted ways with their young coach, Bismarck Kobby Mensah who has joined top-flight side Karela United and will replace him with the Specialist in qualifying team to the premiership, Kobina Amissah. Amissah has been tasked to recruit his own backroom staffs in other to work fruitfully without any hindrance. In a career spanning over 15 years, Amissah has been the ‘go to’ man interms of teams that need to climb up the ladder of football. Coach Amissah has qualified 3 teams to…

Medeama SC is delighted to announce the appointment Ignatius Kwame Osei-Fosu as the club’s first team Head Coach. The young tactician replaces Yaw Preko as the new man in charge after signing a three-year deal in Tarkwa. Ignatius Osei-Fosu has been tasked to built a team that will compete for the league title and also participate in the 2021/2022 CAF Confederation Cup. In his last job, he led Eleven Wonders to escape relegation, finishing a respectable 12, which has seen his stock rise. Osei-Fosu will be assisted by Charles Anokye Frimpong who has also signed a three-year contract with Medeama.…

Former Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Eleven Wonders defender Amos “Olomo” Frimpong has said Ghana’s CAF Champions League representative, Hearts of Oak, would be crushed out by his side, Kamsar. CAF’s most prestigious inter-club competition, CAFCL 2020/21 priliminary stage draw saw Accra Hearts of Oak matched to Club Industrie de Kamsar from Guinea in a double legged encounters. Frimpong joined the Guinean side after a good season spell with Techiman Eleven Wonders in the ended GPL 2020/21. “Kamsar is one of the biggest clubs here in Guinea, which they (Hearts of Oak) don’t know”. “We have a very good team, quality…