NAIROBI— Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) customs officials have intercepted six female travellers with undeclared foreign currency equivalent to Ksh 102 million. According to KRA Commissioner for Customs and Border Control, the six travellers had arrived from India with undeclared US dollars in their luggage at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). “The currency […]
Continue ReadingMonday is World Mental Health Day. To mark the day, the World Health Organization has launched a campaign to “raise awareness and spur action” in regions where there are high rates of death by suicide. The world health body said that the pandemic has created “a global crisis for mental health,” in a statement Monday, […]
Continue ReadingIn an opening speech to the UNHCR’s Executive Committee, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi appealed to member states to provide protection to people fleeing conflict and persecution, regardless of ethnicity and nationality. The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) reports the number of people forcibly displaced by armed conflict, violence, discrimination, persecution, and climate shocks […]
Continue ReadingUkrainian psychologist Tatyana Bogkova was on a birthday trip in Poland with her mother and 4-year-old daughter when Russian troops invaded her homeland earlier this year. With shells raining on Kharkiv city and her policeman husband staying to fight, the 32-year-old chose to take refuge in Spain, where she quickly translated her CV and took […]
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