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U.S. deports migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, other countries to violence-torn Central African Republic

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The Trump administration on Friday deported a group of roughly 20 migrants from Afghanistan, Iran and other nations to the Central African Republic, which the U.S. government warns Americans not to visit “for any reason” due to violence and unrest, a U.S. official told CBS News. The deportees included an Iranian pro-democracy activist who had … Read more

Inside an African hotel where asylum seekers deported by the US are imprisoned

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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — At first glance, the hotel looks like any other on this tropical island off the Central African coast, with its palm tree-lined driveway, marble-floored foyer and portrait of the oil-rich country’s president hanging behind a mahogany reception desk. Yet the eerily empty Bamy Hotel is not a refuge for adventure-seeking tourists … Read more

DHS to tighten Ebola restrictions for foreign travelers coming to U.S. from some African countries

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The Department of Homeland Security is set to implement new entry restrictions beginning Thursday for foreign travelers coming to the United States from countries at the center of the latest Ebola outbreak. According to a draft of a new DHS rule scheduled to be published Thursday, all U.S.-bound flights carrying foreign travelers who have been in Congo, Uganda or South … Read more

VCU to create memorial for people, most of African descent, whose remains were dumped

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Virginia Commonwealth University will spend $3.6 million on a memorial for dozens of people, most of African descent, whose bodies were stolen from their graves, dissected by medical students and then dumped in a forgotten well. The Richmond school’s board of visitors voted Friday to fund what VCU calls the East Marshall Street Well Project, … Read more

African nation calls for Ilhan Omar to be extradited after Vance’s fraud claim

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An African nation is calling for Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., to be extradited after Vice President JD Vance claimed during an interview that the lawmaker committed immigration fraud. The Republic of Somaliland, a partially recognized state in the Horn of Africa, reacted in a post on X … Read more

Slavery exhibit changing at African American history museum as a loan agreement ends

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WASHINGTON — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from one of the first sunken slave ships ever recovered is taken off display in Washington. The National Museum of African … Read more