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India has deported nearly 5,000 Bangladeshi citizens since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist party swept to power in West Bengal last month, according to official statistics.Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a sweeping victory in elections in the eastern border state of more than 100 million people, promising to “detect, delete and deport” illegal migrants. India shares a long and porous border with Muslim-majority Bangladesh, where migration has historically been driven by economic hardship and longstanding family links. On taking power, the new West Bengal government ordered the establishment of detention centres for undocumented Bangladeshis and Rohingya refugees, a mainly Muslim people who fled persecution in Myanmar.State Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, speaking in the capital Kolkata on Sunday, said nearly 5,000 Bangladeshi citizens had been deported across the border. “We have started the work of deporting Bangladeshi infiltrators who do not fall under the purview of the Citizenship Amendment Act,” Adhikari said, saying the government had “established holding centres in all districts of the state” in May. “From these centres, 4,800 Bangladeshi infiltrators have already been deported so far,” he added.“Another 836 people are currently in the holding centres… we are making arrangements to deport the 836 soon,” Adhikari said. The deportation campaign comes against a backdrop of longstanding political tensions over immigration in the border state.Top Indian officials have referred to migrants as “termites” and “infiltrators”. Critics say the BJP’s rhetoric and policies have added to the unease and marginalisation of India’s more than 200 million Muslims, accusing the party of conflating religious identity with illegal migration.Rights groups have previously accused India of also pushing hundreds of Bengali-speaking Muslims into Bangladesh without due process. Source link
Nearly three years after a catastrophic storm tore through eastern Libya’s port city of Derna, killing almost 4,000 people, the city is getting back on its feet, but the trauma persists.New roads and bridges, thousands of new homes, and a hospital have risen from the rubble since a storm swept the coastal city in 2023, leaving thousands missing and over 40,000 homeless.Memories from that September disaster remain vivid: apartment blocks ripped open, bodies buried beneath debris, and cars swept into the sea. However, reconstruction provides a glimmer of hope here, where some residents said it helps them cope with the tragedy they lived through.Asmaa Algzhiri, who lives abroad but comes back to her native city often, said that the losses went beyond the death of her aunt and nephews: “Derna is a very close-knit city where everyone is connected. Even your neighbours are family.” This picture taken on September 18, 2023 shows a tilted car above debris in Derna. – AFP…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said negotiations over a peace deal to end the Middle East war were in their final stages, after Iran and Israel halted attacks that threatened to reignite the months-long conflict.Iran fired missiles at Israel on Sunday in response to strikes against Lebanon’s Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of Beirut, before Israel struck back despite Trump’s efforts to dissuade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from doing so.Iran and Israel “were going back and forth and now they both agreed through me to stop and we’re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal,” the US leader told reporters on his return from an NBA Finals game.When asked whether a deal would be a matter of days or weeks, he said it would take “two or three days.” The flare-up came after weeks of negotiations seeking to bring about a definitive end to the regional war sparked by US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, with Tehran insisting a halt to the conflict must include a truce in Lebanon. Trump, who has reportedly grown increasingly exasperated with Netanyahu, had earlier urged both sides to stop “shooting” and said that “final negotiations” towards peace would proceed “subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way”. US Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Monday that while the United States and Israel shared interests, their positions did not always align.”The Israelis and the United States, we have a lot of shared interests,” Vance said. “But we also have some situations where our interests diverge.” Source link
A drone strike hit a market in central Sudan on Saturday, killing 11 civilians and wounding dozens more, a rights group said, as escalating aerial attacks deepen the toll of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. The attack targeted the main market in Abu Zaeima, a paramilitary-controlled town in North Kordofan state, according to the Emergency Lawyers, a rights group that has documented abuses since fighting erupted in April 2023 between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The group said the casualty figures could rise, but did not specify who carried out the attack. Neither side has commented.Emergency Lawyers said similar drone attacks had struck nearby villages and civilian vehicles less than a day earlier. Two witnesses told AFP that another drone hit a fuel station later on Saturday in El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, which has been partially encircled by RSF forces for months.A medical source at a hospital there said the facility received four wounded civilians. The attacks followed a deadly week in the broader Kordofan region.Nearly 70 people were killed in two separate drone strikes in West and North Kordofan states, according to Emergency Lawyers and a local leader. Drone warfare has become an increasingly prominent feature of Sudan’s conflict. The UN says that between January and April, at least 880 civilians were killed in drone strikes nationwide.Fighting has intensified in Kordofan and Blue Nile state near the Ethiopian border since the RSF captured El-Fasher last October, the military’s last major stronghold in western Darfur. Since then, more than 300,000 people have fled frontline areas, including El-Fasher and parts of Kordofan and Blue Nile, according to the UN.Kordofan, rich in oil and arable land, is strategically significant, linking RSF strongholds in the neighbouring Darfur region to the country’s army-controlled east. The region remains largely contested between the army and the RSF.Having entered its fourth year, the war has killed tens of thousands of people and forced more than 11mn from their homes, creating what the UN describes as the world’s largest displacement and hunger crises. Source link
