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Funding will support much-needed emergency health, water and sanitation services; Alongside international partners aid will deliver support to up to 150,000 refugees.

NEW YORK — Data from a new report by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, the UN migration agency IOM and the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) highlights the often under-reported perils facing vulnerable people on the move on dangerous land routes.

NASSAU, The Bahamas  — Trade between Africa and the Caribbean could rise to $1.8 billion per year by 2028 if value addition, trade facilitation and improved logistics are prioritized, according to new research by the International Trade Centre (ITC) and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank).   Current bilateral trade in goods between the two regions is worth […]

GREAT BAY, St. Martin –Dr. Rhoda Arrindell, president of the One St. Martin Association (One SXM), was the sole delegate from St. Martin at the BIG international conference on decolonization in New York last week.

The Colectivo Tributo aos Ancestrais PT (Collective Tribute to the Ancestors) in Portugal is hosting a a series of ceremonies in Lisbon between June 23rd and August 8th , in homage of the African Ancestors who fell victim to the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The theme of their 5th Ancestral Tribute is the date that Portugal initiated the transatlantic trade in Africans in 1444. 

AMSTERDAM — A group of 35 grassroots organisations and 150 individuals in the Netherlands have sent an urgent letter to Second Chamber, the Municipality of Amsterdam and NiNsee, urging them to have someone else than Speaker of the Second Chamber Martin Bosma attend the Keti Koti/Emancipation Day commemoration in Amsterdam on July 1.