Priti Patel has been accused by Labour of participating in a “government by gimmick” in the aftermath of the 11th-hour cancellation on Tuesday of the inaugural flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda. As the home secretary entertained demands from Conservative ...
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Ministers ‘failing to protect’ people trafficked to UK as modern slaves | UK news
africamustchangeMinisters are failing to protect people trafficked to Britain as modern slaves, the government’s own expert has said. Sara Thornton, the UK’s independent anti-slavery commissioner, said the law needed changing so those established as victims of traffickers would be more ...
Why the witch-hunt victims of early modern Britain have come back to haunt us | Scotland
africamustchangeLilias Addie’s body was piled into a wooden box and buried beneath a half-tonne sandstone slab on the foreshore where a dark North Sea laps the Fife coast. More than a hundred years later, she was exhumed by opportunistic Victorian ...
Kenneth Kaunda, Father of Modern Zambia Dies at 97 | Voice of America
africamustchangeThe man known as Zambia’s founding father has died at the age of 97. Kenneth Kaunda rose to power during Africa’s heady post-independence period, when dozens of former European colonies gained their freedom. VOA’s Anita Powell reports from Johannesburg on ...