Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, is seeking asylum in the United States as the Trump administration moves forward with plans to deport him to Uganda. Garcia’s lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday that this is his second attempt to gain asylum after being denied in 2019. His new request has been filed in…
US immigration authorities plan to deport Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he declined an offer to be sent to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges. Garcia was released from jail on Friday, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) informed his attorneys that he…
The man poised to become New York City’s next mayor, Zoran Mamdani, held a three-day, high-security wedding in Uganda. The 33-year-old married 27-year-old Syrian artist Rama Duwaji at his family’s estate on Buziga hill, overlooking Lake Victoria. The celebration featured over 20 special forces guards and cell phone jammers. However, the event has drawn criticism…
Armed guards in masks, multiple security gates, and a phone-jamming system: these were just some of the intense security measures in place as New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani celebrated his recent marriage at his family’s luxury estate in Uganda this week. The three-day celebration, held at the secluded Mamdani family compound in the…
LUCKNOW: A 41-year-old Ugandan woman, Anita Nabafu Wamukuta, was arrested and sent to jail on Wednesday after the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) recovered 34 capsules containing narcotic substances from her abdomen.The woman arrived in Lucknow via Dubai from Uganda on Saturday and was kept under medical observation for four days. Wamukuta, who had ingested…
The Trump administration’s decision over the weekend to revoke visas for all South Sudanese passport holders has added to the mounting political and humanitarian challenges of a country on the brink of civil war, officials and observers said on Monday. Tensions between the two political leaders of South Sudan have escalated in recent weeks, especially…
South Sudan’s Vice President Riek Machar has been arrested, according to his party, amid escalating tensions in the world’s youngest country that the United Nations warned could blow up a fragile peace deal and has pushed the country back to the brink of civil war.. Mr. Machar was detained late on Wednesday by the National…
An airstrike by South Sudan’s airforce killed at least 19 people in the country’s east, residents said, less than two weeks after government forces withdrew from the area following intense fighting with an ethnic militia. The clashes in Nasir, near the Ethiopian border, between national forces and the White Army, a loosely organised group mostly…
The world’s youngest nation faces the threat of war yet again. This month, a United Nations helicopter was attacked during an evacuation mission in a remote area in South Sudan, with one member of its crew killed and two others seriously injured. The flight was rescuing wounded government soldiers who had clashed with an armed…
In most countries, working as a housekeeper or nanny is a relatively safe profession. Yet as we traveled across Kenya and Uganda, from crowded and poor urban neighborhoods to far-flung farming villages, we heard many variations on the same horror story: Young, healthy women set off for domestic jobs in Saudi Arabia, only to return…