LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eight deportees and over a dozen Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are stranded in a shipping container in east Africa after a judge blocked their deportation flight. Neither the officers or immigrants are able to leave the container, located in a U.S. naval base in the scorching-hot nation of Djibouti,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced detained U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty on several charges, including incitement for allegedly spreading false or inflammatory information. Fenster, the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was also found guilty of contacting illegal organizations…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A U.N. special envoy warned the 15-nation Security Council on Wednesday that “a bloodbath is imminent” in Myanmar if it does not act to curb the violent military crackdown against protesters, according to a copy of her remarks obtained by CBS News. “Looking back ten years from now, how will history judge…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGRS)-US President Donald Trump has imposed an immigrant visa ban on Nigeria and six other countries, earlier confirming media reports on the policy. Immigrant visas are issued to those who want to relocate to the US. It also leads to the issuance of permanent residency. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Trump administration is planning to add seven countries – Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania – to its travel ban list, U.S. media reports said on Tuesday. Some countries will face bans only on some visa categories, the Wall Street Journal reported. The list of countries was not final…
