Monthly Archives: August 2013
Chaotic scenes as inferno engulfs Nairobi airport
A huge fire closed down Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Wednesday (August 7) causing inbound flights to be diverted to other airports.
The blaze...
Gov’t immigration stats are guesswork
UK immigration figures are not fit for purpose, according to a report issued by a committee of MPs. The report calls for the 'e-borders'...
Coalition split on ‘Go Home’ immigration campaign
Last week’s ‘Go Home or Face Arrest’ advertising campaign run by the Home Office (African Voice Issue 492, lead story) has caused a public...
Deputy Prime Minister calls on banks to do more to support ethnic minority businesses
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has called on Britain's banks to do more to ensure that everyone who wants to start a business...
Scientists endorse insect delicacies in Africa's hunger war
The most commonly consumed insect in Africa, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), is the cricket whose consumption preference of either being...
Councils to get £1.9m to ease B&B crisis
Five London local authorities will get a share of a £1.9 million fund to help put an end to end bed and breakfast living...
UK tourist murder: Kenya gives death penalty to resort worker
A Kenyan court has sentenced a hotel resort worker to death after convicting him of being in a gang which in 2011 shot dead...
New South African UN Women chief: “we have to become smarter” on women’s issues
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the newly appointed Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and former Deputy Prime...
Tutu refuses to worship homophobic God
Noble laureate and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond Tutu caused a stir last week when, speaking at the launch of a UN gay...
New Zealand to deport South African chef for being “too fat”
Immigration authorities in New Zealand have told South African chef Albert Buitenhuis, who weighs 130kg (286 pounds) he is too fat to be allowed...
