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05 June 2025
Yugen Blakrok on Going Global Without Selling Out
After six years in Europe, the South African rapper returns with The Illusion of Being, a new album forged from displacement, discipline, and defiance.
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Sports
25 July 2024
How Weini Kelati Went From Asylum Seeker to Olympian
The Eritrean-born runner is making her first Olympics as an American, a decade after she chose to seek asylum there at the age of 17.
News
10 July 2024
New UK Government Wants to Recoup Funds from Scrapped Rwanda Asylum Deal
Following a resounding victory in last week’s general elections, the new Labour Party government in the UK has scrapped a deal it has long viewed as an expensive gimmick.
News
23 April 2024
What to Know About the UK Policy that Plans to Send Asylum Seekers to Rwanda
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's push to ensure refugees who enter the country through illegal means are sent to its East African partner is a step closer to becoming a reality.
Arts + Culture
12 March 2019
Photo Essay: Two Congolese Women Rebuild Their Lives In Detroit
Photographer Lauren Santucci documents the ongoing impact of changes to the asylum-seeking process under the Trump Administration.
USA
25 September 2018
They Fled Burundi. Now They're Opening Detroit's First East African Restaurant.
Photographer Lauren Santucci documents an asylum seeker family from Burundi as they adapt to their new lives in the United States.
News
08 August 2018
Tendai Biti Arrested While Trying to Seek Asylum in Zambia
Zimbabwean elections are over but politicians from the MDC alliance still fear for their lives.
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