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Photo above: Migrants looking down from the mountain behind the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco. Credit: Andrea Pettrachin/IPS. By Andrea Pettrachin CEUTA (IPS) — In the middle of the mountains behind the border fence of Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in ...

Photo above: The migrants photographed here were being loaded on to a cargo plane in Kufra, located in southeastern Libya. Credit: Rebecca Murray/IPS. By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IPS) — The military conflicts and political instability driving hundreds of thousands of refugees ...

Photo above: Sir Paul Tovua flanked by two officials from the Commonwealth Secretariat (CMC photo). PORT OF SPAIN Trinidad CMC — A Commonwealth team that observed Monday’s general election said, it re-affirmed the country’s record of “peaceful and credible elections that demonstrated ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Dr. Keith Rowley will be sworn in as the sixth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, today (Wednesday) following his People’s National Movement (PNM) victory in the general election on Monday. Rowley, 66, will ...

Photo above: Many Syrian cities have been reduced to piles of rubble, as a civil war that is now well into its fifth year shows no signs of abating. Desperate refugees are fleeing to Europe to escape the fighting. Credit: ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan, says, he is satisfied with the response, so far, to the government’s gun amnesty. “I am pleased that the first day was wonderful, to get a 1000 rounds of ammunition is ...

Photo above: North African immigrants near the Italian island of Sicily. Photo credit: Vito Manzari from Martina Franca (TA), Italy. Immigrati Lampedusa/CC-BY-2.0. By Thalif Deen IPS Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New York (IPS) — As tens of thousands of refugees continue ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it will implement a gun amnesty programme from September 1. In recent months, Guyana law enforcement authorities have had to deal with crimes involving the use of guns, and Minister of Public ...

Photo above: From L-R- Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Country Representative, Khadija Musa, President David Granger, Chief, Americas Division in the Department of Political Affairs, Martha Doggett, Senior Mediation ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says she is prepared to deal with any wrongdoer in her administration as the campaign for the September 7 general elections entered its final week. Addressing supporters at a ...