The Council of the European Union (the “Council”) has issued Council Decisions amending sanctions regimes in force with respect to Guinea, Moldova, Yemen and Zimbabwe. See Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/1923 (Guinea), Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/1925 (Moldova), Council Implementing Decision (CFSP)
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Temporary Protected Status Extended to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has been extended to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea for a period of 18 months, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s November 20, 2014, announcement. The designation, prompted by the ongoing spread of the Ebola…
Ebola in the News
The Ebola virus, first diagnosed almost 40 years ago, for which there is no vaccine and up to a 90% fatality rate, is very much in the news. In the most recent outbreak, since March 2014, the Centers for Disease…
Guinea: Mobilisation against an unprecedented Ebola epidemic | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
Conakry / Brussels / Geneva, 31 March 2014 With eight confirmed cases of Ebola reported in the capital Conakry, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is facing an unprecedented epidemic in terms of the distribution of cases now scattered in several locations…
Big FGM Victory in Second Circuit!
In a scathing opinion, a federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday that immigration judges and the appellate system established as a check on their decisions committed “obvious errors” by denying asylum to three Guinean women who claimed that…
NY Times on Polygamy in New York
In Friday’s NY Times, Nina Bernstein writes in In Secret, Polygamy Follows Africans to N.Y.:She worked at the Red Lobster in Times Square and lived with her husband near Yankee Stadium. Yet one night, returning home from her job,…