Eritreans 'being tortured in Egypt's Sinai for ransom'

Father Mussie Zerai says 400 Eritrean held by people traffickers in the Sinai desert are being tortured to extract money from their relatives. The Catholic priest says the Eritreans are forced to telephone their families and ask them to pay ransoms of up to $10,000. He also...

Stop Air Canada From Tarnishing Our Country's Reputation Abroad!

Much had been said about the man who bluffed his way onto an Air Canada flight from Hong Kong, with a mask of an elderly white man. The media is implying that this shows a failing on the part of the Canada Border Services Agency. The fact of the matter is, it was Air Canada,...

UN to send thousands of tents to Benin's flood victims

" The UN refugee agency is to start an emergency airlift of tents to the West African nation of Benin this week, amid the worst flooding there in decades. Some 3,000 tents will be flown in from Denmark to provide shelter for some of the estimated 680,000 people affected....

Pakistan War Against Taliban Causes Grief For Population

Clashes between the Pakistan government and the Taliban have forced nearly three million people from their homes in north-west Pakistan. Recenty, 800,000 refugees have been able to return to their homes, but over a million people are still living with host communities, and...

Ex-KGB Agent: Refugee in Church Sanctuary

Ex-KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov has taken refuge in the First Lutheran Church in Vancouver, BC. Lennikov has been battling to obtain permission to stay in Canada, for the past several years. He worked five years for the Soviet secret police, the KGB (Komityet...

Sinhalese hate us, we won't return to Lanka

Tamils who came out from Sri Lanka to India as refugees are afraid to return back. Though Sri Lankan president Rajapakse announced they won the war by destroying LTTE, there is no political solution put forward to address the tamil's issues. Tamils are still hopeful to get...