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MOGADISHU — Somali police arrested 11 soldiers on Tuesday for illegally carrying weapons in central Mogadishu, part of a citywide security sweep aimed at enforcing a ban on off-duty personnel moving around armed ahead of this week’s local council elections. The Banadir Regional Police Command said the detentions followed coordinated operations across several districts of the capital to curb unauthorized weapons in public spaces and reinforce directives intended to protect civilians. 11 soldiers detained for illegally…

South Africa has detained and moved to deport seven Kenyan nationals it says were working without permits at a facility processing refugee applications from white South Africans, intensifying a diplomatic row with the United States. South African authorities said intelligence reports showed people “had recently entered South Africa on tourist visas and had illegally taken up work” at the centre. The seven Kenyans were arrested, denied work visas and are to be deported with a five-year ban on re-entry, officials said. “They…

Man Charged with Assisting Eight Foreign Nationals in Illegally Crossing into Canada A resident of Winnipeg, originally from Somalia, faces serious allegations regarding human trafficking. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Abshir Mohamed Osman, aged 35, was apprehended after eight individuals from Africa were spotted illegally making their way into Manitoba from the United States late last month. On August 22, police discovered Osman driving a rental car that contained these eight individuals close to…

According to a report by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) Foundation, child labor increased by almost 20% in Côte d'Ivoire between mid-March and mid-May, when schools closed. More generally, the phenomenon has been on the rise for ten years, according to NGOs, but the Ivorian government wants to show its progress in the fight against child labor. as reported from Abidjan, Police said they had rescued eleven children and two youths who were working illegally in cocoa plantations in the southwestern part of the…