“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Bernard M. Baruch
The US imposed the visa restrictions in February 2019 after the Ghana government refused to accept the return of 7,000 deportees questioning their nationality and treatment.
The US accused the 7,000 deportees of being guilty of immigration offences, including abusing the terms of their visas.
Its embassy in Accra limited the awarding of visas to certain applicants.
The US embassy in Accra limited the awarding of visas to certain applicants, such as the domestic staff of diplomats posted to America.
Last year Ghana’s ambassador to the US Adjei-Bawuah dropped a hint that an agreement had been reached to return the deportees.
In a statement the US government said it had lifted the restrictions following “the establishment of a mutually agreed process for the identification, validating and issuance of travel documentation to Ghanaian citizens under final orders of removal in a manner consistent with international standards issued by the International Civil Aviation Organization, of which Ghana is a Member State.”
The statement further noted that all normal visa processing resume on January 17, 2020.
The United States is one of Ghana’s principal trading partners, with trade volume exceeding $1.2 billion.
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Los Angeles Times Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu criticized for response to Charlottesville, Va., violence
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, after an Iranian missile strike on U.S.-led forces in Iraq, that Israel would hit back hard against anyone who attacked his country.
Netanyahu reiterated his praise for U.S. President Donald Trump for the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani last week, calling it a bold move.
The Israeli leader said Soleimani had tried to destabilize the region for decades and was “planning much worse.”
Netanyahu reiterated his praise for U.S. President Donald Trump for the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani last week, calling it a bold move.
Without directly referencing Iran’s missile strikes overnight, in what Tehran called retaliation for the general’s death in Baghdad, Netanyahu said in a speech in Jerusalem that Israel stood beside the United States.
“Whoever tries to attack us will be dealt the strongest blow,” Netanyahu said, accusing Iran of leading a campaign to “strangle and destroy” Israel.
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Kanyambo is the chief operating officer of Choose Yourself, a nonprofit that empowers American, Ugandan, Kenyan and Rwandan girls in subjects ranging from mental health, reproductive rights and entrepreneurial skills. Her organization, which also aids stateless youth, is in the process of establishing a school at the Nakivale Refugee Settlement, one of the largest camps in Uganda.
Kanyambo met with any head of state or U.N. official who would listen at this year’s Africa Dialogue Series themed, “Towards Durable Solutions for the Forcibly Displaced Persons in Africa.”
Education and lifelong learning are two durable solutions, beyond the immediate humanitarian responses, that allow displaced people to integrate into society, said Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces, president of the 73rd Session of the U.N. General Assembly.
“We are contending with the worst displacement crisis since records began … We know that many displaced persons spend years, even decades in camps, in exile, in limbo,” said Garces, citing the importance of other solutions such as economic opportunities, societal contributions, voluntary return and repatriation.
“We need greater political and financial support for transitions at the humanitarian development nexus,” said Garces.
That sentiment prompted Kanyambo to attend the three-day event, which ended yesterday: “We need access to resources. We need partnership facilitation. And we need the United Nations to urge the Ugandan government to make this project a priority.”
It is impossible to talk about health issues in the past year in Europe without reflecting on the refugee crisis, and the challenges and opportunities that it has presented for Europe. Over one million children, women and men arrived at our shores and borders last year.
It is impossible to talk about health issues in the past year in Europe without reflecting on the refugee crisis, and the challenges and opportunities that it has presented for Europe. Over one million children, women and men arrived at our shores and borders last year.
The European Union had a common responsibility to ensure that these persons, many of them physically and mentally exhausted, were offered care and support, including through the provision of healthcare when required.
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission
The challenge of migrants and refugees cannot be viewed as a short-term one that can be resolved exclusively by means of ‘exceptional’ or ‘emergency’ responses.
The drivers that result in large-scale movements of people within and between countries are diverse, complex and interactive. Many of them are more likely to increase rather than decrease in the coming decades, including extreme weather events and slower shifts in weather patterns resulting from global warming that can lead to food and water shortages and losses of livelihoods and impacts of population increases, urbanisation, land degradation, deforestation and sea level rise.
In addition, it can be expected that violence, political oppression and human rights abuses, as well as desires by people for a better life and greater economic opportunity, will continue to act as sources of involuntary or voluntary migration. It is therefore important to search for solutions that recognise migrants, refugees and asylum seekers as ‘part of society’ and that make them ‘structural’ rather than ‘external’ in health systems as well as other areas.
