In a swift response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened mass deportations, Mexican soldiers moved quickly on Thursday to establish emergency shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border.The Mexican government unveiled plans to open nine shelters for its citizens and an additional three shelters for deported foreigners under a new initiative called “Mexico Embraces You.”In Matamoros, a city in northeastern Mexico directly across the border from Brownsville, Texas, N...

Barely a few weeks the country got erupted with protest about the finance bill, the Kenyan Ministry of finance is planning to bring back some of the taxes in the defunct controversial Finance Bill in a new attempt to widen the tax net, raise more revenues and slash the borrowings.Kenyan lawmakers were forced to drop the bill after weeks of protests which led to the deaths of not less than 61 people.The taxes that formed part of the Finance Bill 2024 and aimed to rai...

A draft law in Iraq that would allow the marriage of girls as young as nine has provoked protests across the country, with women’s rights activists saying it would “legalise child rape”.The Shia religious groups that dominate the political system in Iraq have been pushing to erode women’s rights in the country for more than a decade.Unlike neighbouring Saudi Arabia, Iraq does not have a system of male guardianship requiring women to have the permission of a husband,...