Families with children seeking asylum in the UK are being considered for forced removal to Rwanda, according to a Home Office minister.Immigration minister Robert Jenrick told an evidence session at parliament’s women and equalities committee on Wednesday that, while there were no plans to remove unaccompanied child asylum seekers to the east African country, families with children are being considered for removal.Jenrick said that, while a final decision had not been reached, officials were worried that ruling out a particular group such as families could encourage traffickers to focus on smuggling families rather than single males.“There’s not necessarily a bar…
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Young preachers are encouraged to find their way to the cross in every sermon. Some even argue this is an essential ingredient of preaching. The point is clear: preachers should not pass up the opportunity to tell the wonderful story of God’s grace in every sermon. We recognise that this gospel opportunity is present when preaching of the word. But what other aspects of the Sunday church service are opportunities to proclaim the gospel? What if the way that we structured our services could be used to tell the story of God’s grace anew? Could we order our church services…
January would have marked a watershed moment in the raucous but necessary pursuit of unfettered racial integration in South African cricket.Malibongwe Maketa was in line to become the first ethnic black African to be appointed a full-time coach of his country’s cricket team, which alongside rugby, were the symbol of white domination in a country that for centuries represented one of the worst racist systems in the history of mankind.42-year-old Maketa applied and was short-listed for both vacant coaching jobs of the Test and shorter-version formats alongside four others: Richard Pybus, Andy Birrell, Rob Walter and Shukri Conrad.Walter, a white…
While the literary novel dominates the Zimbabwean scene, genre fiction is no stranger to the nation. The crime novel is a particularly guilty pleasure with titles such as All Come to Dust by Bryony Rheam and the “Detective Sibanda Series” (Sibanda and the Rainbird, Sibanda and the Black Hawk Sparrow, Sibanda and the Death’s Head Moth) by C.M. Elliott being prime examples. Although these novels are mainly set in the southwestern region of Matebeleland, Andrew Chatora’s Harare Voices and Beyond is a welcome addition to the canon.Set in the capital city of Harare and mainly narrated from the confines of…
The eight wealthiest families in Africa made a combined wealth of $67.9 Billion as of January 15, 2023. The families came from three regions – North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. Three families are from Nigeria, two are from South Africa, and three are from Arab countries. The Dangote family in Nigeria stayed atop again as the richest in Africa, with a net worth of $13.5 Billion, made from the vast companies that made up the Dangote conglomerate. The Sawiris family in Egypt retained the second spot with a total of $11.7 Billion thanks to the visionary mindset and…
To gaze at the artist’s work is to encounter the vagaries of history, to be fixed in a time mitigated by the whims of the clock, an arbitrary sequence that fails to account for how Black femininity exists both within and without modernist time. Sihle Motsa on the work of Frida Orupabo Lies, 2022 Hours After: The schism between the first world and the third is one mitigated by time. This was made poignantly apparent by a recent trip to the United States of America where the railways litter the body of the settler colony.…
ABU DHABI – Abu Dhabi Ports (AD Ports) Group has signed key strategic agreements with Angolan organisations to enhance maritime connectivity along Africa’s west coast.In the presence of Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of State, during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023, AD Ports Group entered into a framework agreement with the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Angola to begin collaboration on the development of maritime services and infrastructure across the country.The Group has also entered into a Head of Terms agreement to form a joint venture with state-owned logistics and transportation company UNICARGAS, which…
Weah won both the Fifa Player of the Year and Ballon d’Or awards in 1995Liberian President George Weah has added his backing for Morocco’s bid to host the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon).BBC Sport Africa understands Weah relayed his backing in private during the MEDays international peace forum last November which is hosted annually in the Moroccan city Tangier. “Liberia fully endorses and supports Morocco’s bid to host Afcon 2025. I have made this commitment to King Mohamed VI. It is cast in stone,” Weah said in a statement released by Liberia’s state houseexternal-link following media reports he was…
If you happen to find yourself on Nigerian Twitter or TwitterNG—a community of Twitter users based in Nigeria—there is a good chance you will have noticed the widespread deployment of phrases and abbreviations such as “I follow back” (IFB) and “kindly follow back” (or KFB). I am yet to learn of another group of Twitter users that requests followers as intensely and unrelentingly as Nigerians. A few Nigerians prefix or suffix follow back phrases to their Twitter names, or adopt the phrases as their Twitter names, to ensure that their potent wish for new followers is among the first things…
Corsets have been making a comeback and now we’ve gone full throttle with #BellaStylistas dropping back-to-back spicy looks like this on us. Naomi Nwaokoru rocked in this flawlessly crafted dress by Xtra Brides Lagos. Beyond the excellent fit of the structured midsection, the choice of fabric, beautifully laid embellishments and artistic top accessory all came together nicely to make this an utterly inspiring showpiece. Should we talk about the colour? Red – bold, vibrant and hawt, a perfect choice for such a sensual yet classy look. Her bouncy two-toned hair, snatched nose and flawless makeup with a foxy rouge pout…