The anti-Western coup d’état in Niger last year is likely to drive further illegal immigration to Europe, the European Commission has warned.
Ylva Johansson, the Home Affairs Commissioner on the European Union’s unelected executive, has confirmed the coup “could, of course, lead to a lot of new migrants coming in a very difficult and dangerous situation.”
Niger is one of several African countries in the Sahel region, running from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, where Russia-friendlymilitary juntas have supplanted Western-leaning regimes. It has already revoked legislation aimed at slowing the flow of migrants towards Europe.
Agadez, a desert outpost from which outward migration was previously banned, has already filled with “caravans of pickup trucks” ready to transport migrants from West and Central Africa through the Sahara and into neighboring Libya.
From there, many will make the journey from the North African coast to Europe, often assisted by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating “rescue” ships that loiter in the area, waiting to collect migrants from smaller craft.
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The anti-Western coup d'état in Niger last year is likely to drive further illegal immigration to Europe, the European Commission has warned.
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The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex, reports illegal immigration into Europe via the so-called West African route has surged by 541 percent over the last two months. This surge represents the highest count for the period since Frontex began collecting data in 2011.
Human trafficking outfits in Mauritania — infamous for not having criminalized slavery until 2007 and for allowing it to persist at scale outside the law — have been reportedly pushing sub-Saharan migrants through the country to the Canary Islands.
The Canaries, off the coast of West Africa, belong to Spain and therefore qualify as European Union (EU) soil. Migrants are reaching the islands in makeshift boats, known locally as “cayuco” boats, with many drowning due to their unseaworthiness.
The Eastern Mediterranean illegal immigration route from Turkey to Greece, meanwhile, saw a 117 percent increase in arrivals, while the Western Mediterranean route from North Africa to mainland Spain saw a 48 percent increase.
The Central Mediterranean route from North Africa to Italy has bucked the trend with a 70 percent drop, although this follows earlier record increases under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
However, Frontex does not appear particularly interested in helping EU governments protect their borders, with agency head Hans Leijtens urging governments to abandon the “narrative” of “stopping people” in January.
“Nothing can stop people from crossing a border, no wall, no fence, no sea, no river,” he claimed.
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The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex, reports illegal immigration into Europe via the so-called West African route has surged by 541 percent over the last two months. This surge represents the highest count for the period since Frontex began collecting data in 2011.
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Three Egyptian monks from the Coptic Orthodox Church have been stabbed to death in a monastery in South Africa.
The suspect in the attack at the Saint Mark the Apostle and Saint Samuel the Confessor Monastery, located in Cullinan, east of Pretoria, has been detained but identified only as a man aged 35.
No motive for the attack has been disclosed, with the authorities saying only that they do not believe it was theft, as nothing was stolen.
The Coptic Orthodox Church has identified the monks as Takla el-Samuely, Yostos ava Markos, and Mina ava Markos and recognized them as “martyrs.”
Headquartered in Egypt, the Church mainly serves the Coptic people, who predate the Arab-Islamic conquest and colonization of the country and still comprise five-to-ten percent of the population.
The Copts have their own pontiff in Alexandria, Pope Tawadros II, who traces his seat to St. Mark in the same way the Roman Catholic pontiff traces his seat to St. Peter. They are frequently targeted by radical Islamic terrorists, with dozens being killed during twin suicide bombings at church services on Palm Sunday in 2017, for example.
The Church is part of the Oriental Orthodox Church, which also includes the likes of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. It is separate from the Eastern Orthodox Church, which includes the likes of the Greek Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Three Egyptian monks from the Coptic Orthodox Church have been stabbed to death in a monastery in South Africa.
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The continued Houthi rebel attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden are costing the world significant amounts of time and money.
The attacks have forced many maritime transport companies to reroute their ships around the African continent rather than using the shorter route through the Suez Canal. Rerouting ships around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope has added 3,500 nautical miles to the shipping route between Asia and the West. The use of the longer shipping route due to the Iranian-backed rebel attacks has drastically increased the cost of transporting goods.
Accounting for about 10 percent of the volume of global maritime trade, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea shipping route is arguably one of the most important in the world. Raw minerals, oil, liquified natural gas, grains, rice, and electronic goods have moved via ship through the region without incident for decades. However, when the Iran-backed Houthi rebels of Yemen began attacking shipping after Israel launched a military campaign against Hamas, traffic through the Suez Canal collapsed.
The longer Africa route and increased time at sea have driven up fuel costs for maritime shipping companies — as well as expenses for crew and maintenance. This has led to a drastic rise in container costs for those looking to move goods around the world. In January 2023, the average cost of a standard 40-foot (FEU), non-refrigerated container was around $1,759.93. Today, the price of a container has jumped up to $5,495.20 on average.
In January of this year, President Joe Biden announced the US and UK militaries would begin an air campaign against Yemen’s Houthis in an effort to put an end to the attacks. Additionally, the two nations have dispatched naval forces to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to deter Houthi hijacking attempts. Despite numerous strikes against Houthi targets, the costly campaign has thus far failed. The Houthi rebels successfully sank a British container ship over the weekend.
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The continued Houthi rebel attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden are costing the world significant amounts of time and money.
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New satellite imagery reveals renewed Russian construction at a military base previously used by the Wagner Group at the Modibo Keita International Airport, Mali. The images present the first detailed visuals of the site since the August 2023 death of the Wagner Group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Since Prigozhin’s death, the Russian Defense Ministry has absorbed Wagner Group’s functions, and the leftover elements of the organization are reportedly being run as Russia’s “Expeditionary Corps.” This spurred speculations about the future of Russian military presence and influence in Africa, given the pivotal role the Wagner Group fulfilled by backing aligned regimes across the continent.
The construction images suggest Russia remains committed to maintaining its military presence in Mali. In recent months, the construction has facilitated the completion of new roads and buildings, ground clearing, and the initiation of excavations in two locations. The images also showed the detailed development of what Janes, a defenseintelligence agency, believes to be a possible new administrative building and a covered storage zone.
Compared to a few vehicles in July, over 40 vehicles of different sizes are now located at the site, indicating a considerable increase in activity. Moreover, Russia appears to be aiming to increase its presence in Africa further, as evidenced by recruitment advertisements for Russia’s Africa Corps appearing in recent months on Telegram. The ads offer “high payments, free medical care,” and “service under the competent commanders’ leadership,” signifying Russia’s expanding relations with numerous Sahel region regimes where it seeks to fill areas of declining Western influence.
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New satellite imagery reveals renewed Russian construction at a military base previously used by the Wagner Group at the Modibo Keita International Airport, Mali. The images present the first detailed visuals of the site since the August 2023 death of the Wagner Group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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Representative Ilhan Omar, the Somalia-born Minnesota Democrat, was recorded telling a Somali audience they are “people of the same blood, people who know they are Somalians first, Muslims second, who protect each other,” adding she is “here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system.”
Omar’s speech was prompted by anger in Somalia and among the Somali diaspora over an agreement between Ethiopia and the Republic of Somaliland, an officially unrecognized but effectively self-governing state in Somalia’s north.
“Somalia is for Somali people. Somalia is one. We are all brothers and sisters. Our land cannot be divided,” she said, assuring listeners that Somalis in the U.S. will decide the U.S. position on Somaliland and even alluding to reclaiming Somali territories in modern-day Kenya, Ethiopia, and other neighboring countries.
Somaliland was formerly British Somaliland, merging with Italian Somaliland to form modern-day Somalia in 1960 — but it soon soured on the union with its southerly neighbor, mounting an unsuccessful attempt to secede as early as December 1961.
Somalia soon fell into dictatorship, precipitating another northern rebellion in the 1980s, with Somaliland achieving de facto independence by 1991.
Omar has claimed outsiders’ interpretations of her speech, which has gone viral on social media, are “completely off,” but reiterated she stands in “solidarity” with those opposed to Somaliland’s independence.
We were profoundly surprised, even shocked on discovering the remarks made by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D) of Minnesota in a recent public forum, widely circulated on most social media platforms and attached below for your reference.
Representative Ilhan Omar, the Somalia-born Minnesota Democrat, was recorded telling a Somali audience they are "people of the same blood, people who know they are Somalians first, Muslims second, who protect each other," adding she is "here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system."
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Mass immigration has cost the Netherlands and Dutch taxpayers a staggering €400 billion ($430 billion) between 1995 and 2019, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, who had “access to unique, anonymized microdata from Statistics Netherlands.”
The study, entitled “Borderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration for Public Finances,” shows that migrants took €17 billion more out of the Dutch welfare state than they contributed on average every year for a quarter of a century.
The largest figure was €32 billion in 2016 as a result of Angela Merkel’s open-door migration policies. The money spent on migrants that year was more than what the Dutch government spent on the country’s entire education system.
The authors found that migrants from the Middle East and North Africa never achieve a positive fiscal contribution to the Dutch economy, with migrants receiving significantly more welfare than the native Dutch population. Only Asians offered a small net contribution.
Moroccan nationals were found to cost the Netherlands €260,000 per person over their lifetime, followed by Turkish nationals, who cost €200,000. Other African nationals cost an average €180,000.
Notably, they also suggested the universal claim that “it will all work out with the second generation” does not hold weight. Instead, if people are born into families were produce a negative net contribution, they are unlikely to make a positive one.
The nearly half a trillion euro costs “are mainly the result of redistribution through the welfare state,” the authors argue. “Government spending on immigrants is now above average for items such as education, social security and benefits.”
Migrants failing to make a positive net fiscal contribution is not limited to the Netherlands; on the contrary, Germany is set to spend €36 billion on migrants this year alone, with the French similarly expected to pay €25 billion.
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Mass immigration has cost the Netherlands and Dutch taxpayers a staggering €400 billion ($430 billion) between 1995 and 2019, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, who had "access to unique, anonymized microdata from Statistics Netherlands."
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Yes, despite the obvious, the political class will gasp when Geert Wilders commands the largest number of votes, and when other European nations follow suit and elect populist-nationalist politicians who want to reduce migration to manageable levels
Yes, despite the obvious, the political class will gasp when Geert Wilders commands the largest number of votes, and when other European nations follow suit and elect populist-nationalist politicians who want to reduce migration to manageable levels show more
Attacks on South Africa’s predominantly white farmers increased by 21 percent in the third quarter of 2023, with 88 attacks launched for an average of almost one per day.
The figures were collected by the Community Safety Division of AfriForum, a civil rights organization with a focus on the Afrikaans-speaking white minority, often referred to as Boers. Covering the period from July to September, they contrast with 73 farm attacks from April to June, although murders during farm attacks are down from 23 to 13.
The attackers, who average 2.33 per incident, generally target the elderly, with the average age of the average age of their victims being over 60.
Rhetoric against Afrikaners and the white minority more generally in South Africa has intensified in recent months, with Julius Malema of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party leading packed stadiums in chants of “shoot to kill… kill the Boer, the farmer.”
The South African government, led by the African National Congres (ANC), is also targeting white farmers, by pushing to expropriate and redistribute their land without compensation and forcing them to submit to onerous “black economic empowerment” regulations or face restrictions on their ability to export to the United Kingdom and the European Union.
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Attacks on South Africa's predominantly white farmers increased by 21 percent in the third quarter of 2023, with 88 attacks launched for an average of almost one per day.
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The Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, admitted to Russian pranksters posing an African diplomats that European leaders are tired of the war in Ukraine and hope to broker a deal with the Russian government to end it. Asked about her stance on the ongoing conflict, Meloni explained both Russia and Ukraine are fatigued, adding we are approaching the point when “everyone will understand that we need a way out.”
“The problem is to find a way out that would be acceptable to both sides, not while violating international law,” she added in the audio, embedded below.
Meloni was also quite candid about her ability to curb the migrant crisis, which has seen over 120,000 illegal migrants flow through Italy since the beginning of the year. She stated the problem is becoming “very difficult for us to manage,” while adding: “What [Europe doesn’t] understand is that it is impossible” because of “the size of the phenomenon is something that involves, in my opinion, not only the European Union but the UN…” She also added that the newcomers to Europe are “impossible to integrate.”
The phone call has since been confirmed to be genuine by the Italian Prime Minister’s office and occurred before the UN General Assembly in New York on September 18 – around the same time the small Italian Mediterranean Island of Lampedusa saw an enormous influx of thousands of illegal migrants landing on its shores.
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NEW – Italy's Meloni, in a prank call, says European leaders are "tired of Ukraine war" and that stopping migration "is impossible" due to the "size of the phenomenon."pic.twitter.com/lqYAzKl4wu
The Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, admitted to Russian pranksters posing an African diplomats that European leaders are tired of the war in Ukraine and hope to broker a deal with the Russian government to end it. Asked about her stance on the ongoing conflict, Meloni explained both Russia and Ukraine are fatigued, adding we are approaching the point when "everyone will understand that we need a way out."
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Julius Malema, President of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EEF) – South Africa’s third-largest political party – argued that Hamas has “done nothing wrong” and that the terrorist organization should “shoot to kill” Israeli citizens.
Malema, who rose to prominence across the world after supporting the murder of white farmers in South Africa with his ‘kill the Boer‘ chant earlier this year, staged a mass protest outside the country’s Israeli embassy in which he urged the hundreds-strong crowd to boycott Jewish shops in the country.
“There is nothing wrong with what Hamas did. When you are oppressed, the only option you have is to fight and that’s what Hamas is doing. They are fighting for their freedom. Mandela did the same thing. He took up their guns and fought for the freedom of the people of South Africa,” he argued.
“When you are oppressed, you only have one option: confront the enemy and shoot to kill,” he added. Malema further explained that his party would arm and fund Hamas if elected next year.
Farm Murders in South Africa have been skyrocketing, with a 167 percent increase in the second quarter of 2023.
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3rd largest party in South Africa vows to arm Hamas when they take power:
EFF party leader Julius Malema:
"There is nothing wrong that Hamas did. Confront the enemy and shoot to kill!"
This is the same politician who recently told a packed stadium of his followers… pic.twitter.com/u1df8cWVsT
Julius Malema, President of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EEF) – South Africa's third-largest political party – argued that Hamas has "done nothing wrong" and that the terrorist organization should "shoot to kill" Israeli citizens.
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