News, views and guides for Africans in Germany and Europe
News, views and guides for Africans in Germany and Europe
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The number of rejected asylum seekers who are obliged to leave Germany is increasing while the nightly deportations of families in Saxony are causing protests and anger, admitted Interior Minister Roland Wöller (50, CDU). According to this, the number of foreigners who are “legally obliged to leave the country” who are in Saxony has more […] More
Germany: A fatal knife attack took place in a refugee and homeless shelter in Greven Münsterland, North Rhine-Westphalia where one person was killed and another injured. The state prosecutor said that a suspect was arrested in the area and according to police he’s a 25-year old Afghan who lives in the accommodation. He was arrested […] More
A nun from the Franciscan nunnery at the Oberzell monastery in Southern Germany has been found guilty of aiding two Nigerian asylum seekers. She was fined 500 euros. The nun, Juliana Seelamn 38 , aided two women from Nigeria who said they were trying to escape forced prostitution in Italy where they had first fled […] More
Refugees have sued Germany over the unlawful searching of their cell phones during asylum applications. Regional court judges issued the rule that the act of searching an asylum seeker’s phone was unlawful. An administrative court ruled Tuesday that Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) had no right to demand any refugees’ phone nor […] More
Lawyers working with the German Foreign Office have been accused of revealing the sexual identity of gay, lesbian and bisexual (LGBTQI) asylum seekers to authorities in their home countries. The move exposes the LGBTQI asylum seekers to life threatening risks back home once deported. The Lesbian and Gay Association of Germany (LSVD) described the German […] More
Due to the effects of the pandemic, 2021 has had significantly fewer deportations as compared to 2020 that saw 4,088 people deported from Germany. This happened in the first quarter of the year with 2019 having even more deportations. According to the Federal Police, 2,880 people were deported from Germany in the first three months […] More
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) was unable to determine the origin of the applicants for more than 470 asylum seekers last year with most facing rejection for their applications due to this reason. This information emerges from a list which goes back to a request made from the parliament room for such […] More
CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt has called for asylum seekers who have taken part in hate demonstration against Israel to be deported. “Anyone who denies Israel the right to exist, chants anti-Semitic slogans, spreads hatred against Jews and calls for violence have forfeited their protective rights and must leave our country,” said Dobrindt of […] More
A raging fire broke out on Sunday evening at a asylum seekers’ hostel in Kronach, upper Franconia leaving a 31-year -old woman and a two-year-old child dead. A 34 year old man suffered severe burns was flown to a hospital as a spokesman for the upper Franconian Police headquarters. The cause for the fire is […] More
Germany: German President “Frank-Walter Steinmeier” encourages foreigners residing in Germany to take advantage of their right to obtain German citizenship when they fulfil the conditions. “Only then will you actually have the same rights, and only then can you really participate,” said Steinmeier, Friday May 21, in Berlin at the naturalisation document award ceremony. At the […] More
Some religious institutions are sheltering asylum seekers because in Germany the police are not allowed to enter churches. Most of the refugees are christian converts who need saving from the authorities. Some religious institutions are offering shelter for six months and then also assisting refugees in their court cases. One such religious leader is Pastor […] More
In the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, individual doctors and politicians report a large number of African migrants flooding the intensive care units in Germany. We debate if these reports could be viable: Chancellor Merkel has in the past reported that almost 3 per cent of intensive care beds remain empty as the country […] More