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Time of India
14-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
'What's wrong with the shape of your head': Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh faces racist trolling; 'Go to Mogadishu'
Omar Fateh faced racist trolling as he laid out his vision for the Minneapolis mayor race. Somalian-American Minnesota state senator Omar Fateh was called a 'terrorist', a lite version of Zohran Mamdani in the latest racist attack on social media as he laid out his vision as the Minneapolis mayoral candidate. The Democrat candidate said he would save Minneapolis from hostile White House, increase the minimum wage by $20 by 2028 and stop the police department from interacting with the ICE. Americans shamed him for his looks and asked him to go back to Mogadishu with his 'mud hut ' lifestyle, though Omar Fateh was born in the US; his parents were immigrants from Somalia. "I'm not even going to watch this video. I can tell by the shape of his head he's a Somalian. Somalians should not be running for office in the United States of America. He should run for Mayor in Mogadishu so he can enjoy his mud hut lifestyle there rather than bring it here," Conservative political strategist Joey Mannarino wrote. "There's no racism against Somalians, but there are patterns to be noticed. In Minnesota there are five Somalian gangs that operate currently. Five gangs. In one state," he wrote, asking why Muslims in America, like Mamdani, are pushing liberalism while they are traditionally conservative. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like The Carens Clavis – Every detail tailor-made for your family. Price starts at ₹11 49 900* Kia India Learn More Undo "Are you even a legal citizen?" "Grok, what is the average IQ of a Somalian?" "Are you married to your first or second cousin?" "Go back to Magadishu" "Return to Somnalia. America is full." "You're going back to Somalia, don't make any long term plans." These were the replies that he received as he spoke about his plan as the mayoral candidate. "Minneapolis may get its own Zohran Mamdani. Its basically cloning Zohran's platform," right-wing commentator Eric Daughtery posted. "The phenomenon of Multi-Cultural Marxist Mayors is spreading throughout the USA - what can be done to stop it?" one wrote.
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Fact check: ‘Channel migrants' in prison and fake ‘Amazon' deals
This roundup of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK's largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information. Are 'Channel migrants' 24 times more likely to go to prison than British citizens? New analysis from the Conservative Party last week claimed migrants who cross the Channel in small boats are 24 times more likely to go to prison than the average British citizen. We've repeatedly asked the Conservatives about their research but haven't received a response, so we don't have full details of their calculations. But based on the details reported, the claim that 'Channel migrants' are 24 times more likely to go to jail is not reliable. The University of Oxford's Migration Observatory says there is no reliable publicly available data on the proportion of small boat arrivals who go to prison. The first report of the claim said the Conservative analysis is 'based on the 10,838 foreign criminals' in prison in England and Wales in March 2025. Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures do show that in March there were 10,838 'foreign nationals held in custody', a figure which excludes people who also held a British passport. (Some were awaiting trial or in prison for non-criminal reasons, so not all are necessarily 'criminals'.) These figures only show the number of foreign nationals in prison at a given point in time though, so can't reliably tell us how likely it is for a foreign national to go to prison at some point during their time in this country. The report went on to say that the March prison data suggests the rate of British citizens in jail is 0.14%, compared with 0.18% for foreign nationals, and that the rate is 'significantly higher for the nationalities who make up the largest small boat arrivals, including Somalians, Afghans, Iraqis, Albanians and Iranians'. It said the Conservative analysis suggests 'some 3.4% of small boat migrants could go to prison', and that this is 24 times the 0.14% British citizen imprisonment rate. It is not clear from the story how exactly the 3.4% figure was calculated — we don't know for sure all the nationalities it covers, what proportion of small boat arrivals those nationalities account for and over what period, or how else the figures may have been adjusted. The report did explain that imprisonment rates for specific nationalities were calculated by dividing the number of people of each nationality in custody in March by the number of people in England and Wales who held a passport from that country as of the 2021 Census (again excluding people with a British passport). But this is not a reliable way to calculate the proportion of foreign nationals in prison in 2025, because it takes no account of how the population of different nationalities in England and Wales may have changed since 2021. In recent years there have been significant changes to migration patterns to the UK and a surge in small boat crossings. The Migration Observatory told Full Fact: 'Getting accurate data on criminal conviction rates by nationality is very hard because the UK currently does not have accurate population data for each nationality. 'The migrant population has changed significantly since 2021… and more recent population estimates are highly uncertain due to data collection issues. Some groups of migrants are particularly likely to be undercounted, such as Albanians.' What's more, the prison data used in the Conservative analysis appears to refer to all those of each nationality in custody, not specifically those who arrived via small boat. Those counted are likely to include people who have migrated by a range of different routes—for example, some may have visas. And as the Home Office noted in its response to the analysis, these figures could also capture foreign nationals placed in custody while here temporarily (for example, while on holiday). The analysis appears to assume small boat arrivals are jailed at the same rate as others of the same nationality who arrived by another route. But we don't know whether or not this is the case. The Migration Observatory told us one reason for the variation in imprisonment rates between different nationalities was likely to be 'differences in socio-economic status among people arriving on different immigration routes'. It said: 'For example, people from comfortable backgrounds with high levels of education and professional jobs are much less likely to go to prison, and this is likely to be true among migrants too (such as those arriving on work visas for skilled jobs). Age and sex also play a role: young men have higher offending rates. 'As a result, it would not be surprising if people arriving in the UK through different routes (eg, on work visas versus small boats) had different offending rates, though the data are currently not good enough to understand these trends properly.' The Home Office said the comparison made in the analysis was 'completely unfounded', adding: 'It is inappropriate to apply foreign imprisonment rates to small boat arrival data as these consist of very different groups of people.' The MoJ told us that it does not currently collate data that would identify how foreign nationals in custody arrived in the country, or their immigration status (beyond figures for the number issued with an immigration detention order). It noted though that the justice secretary has asked civil servants to review what more data can be published, and similar work is also being carried out at the Home Office. Too-good-to-be-true 'Amazon' offers on Facebook In the last year we've fact checked at least 10 examples of fake offers supposedly from Amazon circulating on social media, promising everything from iPads to Dyson vacuum cleaners at very low prices or even for free. We wrote about one such offer for £3 laptops earlier this week, ahead of Amazon's Prime Day promotion. Amazon has repeatedly told us such Facebook posts, which often feature photos of piles of boxes in a warehouse with someone poorly edited into the picture beside them, are not genuine offers from the company. But we have sometimes seen them engaged with or commented on hundreds of times. The posts often urge Facebook users to fill in surveys or follow a link to claim the supposed deal. These links may then lead to poor imitations of the real Amazon website, or an apparently unrelated web page. Sometimes the web pages ask people for their personal information and payment details. This isn't a problem unique to Amazon – we see posts making similar false claims about other retailers too, such as Argos, Tesco and John Lewis. Here are a few tips on how to spot this kind of fake offer: – Always double-check posts sharing deals that seem too good to be true – if a post is promising a £3 Samsung TV or £1.78 PlayStation 5 console, it's probably not legitimate. – Check whether an offer has been shared by a company's official page on social media, which will often have a high number of followers, a verified blue tick on platforms like Facebook or Instagram and a long post history. – If you click a link, a different URL and page layout to the official website can be giveaways that something isn't quite right, as can grammatical errors in the text.
eNCA
03-07-2025
- Health
- eNCA
Joburg clinic allegedly turns away foreign patients
JOHANNESBURG - A clinic in Rosettenville in the south of Johannesburg is allegedly turning away foreign nationals. However, the management is denying such allegations and says they are attending to everyone walking into the health facility. Some of the alleged foreign nationals in the queues say they have been waiting for assistance since Monday. Pregnant women and mothers with babies have been turned away by community members in support of the alleged action. They say that the people coming to the clinic do not have legal documentation and cannot use the services. The foreign nationals deny this. Meanwhile in KwaZulu-Natal reports have surfaced that Illegal Somalians and Ethiopians have been shot at by police, after they attacked a March and March member. They're also alleging to have attacked South African police,demanding free healthcare at Addington Hospital in KwaZulu Natal. Department of Health Spokesperson Foster Mohale says they are aware of the tensions in Rosettenville. But notes that this is not an isolated. He has condemned this action saying no one has the right to prevent anyone from accessing health care. "Everyone who happens to be in the country is protected by a number of prescripts including Section 27 of the constitution including the National Health Act, the refugee act,' he says. While there are claims that those seeking health services are illegal in the country, Mohale says while they condemn such actions of those who enter the country illegally no one has the right to take the law into their own hands. This he says is to respect the laws of the country.
Daily Mail
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Migrants who cross the Channel into the UK 'are 24 times more likely to go to prison than Brits'
Channel migrants are 24 times more likely to be in prison than Brits, analysis by the Conservative party has revealed. A whopping 3.4 per cent - one in 30 - small boat migrants end up behind bars, according to official data for nationalities who make up the largest portion of arrivals, including Somalians, Afghans, Iraqis, Albanians and Iranians. This is a dramatically larger share than the average for Brits, which comes to just 0.14 per cent. It is also 18 times higher than the ratio of the total migrant population that is in prison, which is 0.18 per cent. As the number of channel migrants who have arrived in the country this year soars past 20,000, the Conservatives have used these findings to suggest an alarmingly high portion of them will end up in custody, The Times reports. When the statistics are applied to this year's arrivals, it is estimated that 700 of the 20,422 who have entered the UK so far will go to prison. The data is based on 10,838 foreign criminals held in prisons in England and Wales at the end of March. Those with dual British nationality are not included in the Ministry of Justice numbers, which recorded 5.9 million people as living in the UK with a foreign passport as of the last census in 2021. Some 12 per cent of Somalians living in the UK were behind bars at the end of March, a total of 258 prisoners in total. For Albanians, the figure is 6 per cent, among Iraqis it is 2.7 per cent, while 1.6 per cent of Iranians are in prison. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: 'This data shows the government's loss of border control is putting the public at risk. Those from the main nationalities arriving are far more likely to commit crime and end up in prison than the general population. 'The illegal immigrants crossing the Channel are unvetted, unknown and uncontrolled. And now it is clear they are much more likely to commit serious crime. They are therefore a danger to the public. 'The government must remove those arriving immediately and without court process to a location outside Europe. The crossings would then soon end. This flood of illegal immigration has to stop.' The Home Office suggested the data was skewed given that the majority of those arriving on small boats were young men in their 20s and 30s, a demographic more likely to commit crime. The analysis also did not include foreigners who had committed crimes while in the UK on holiday. A spokesman for the Home Office said: 'The comparison of these two data sets is completely unfounded. It is inappropriate to apply foreign imprisonment rates to small boat arrival data as these consist of very different groups of people.'
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Experts issue warning as devastating shocks fuel rise in food prices: 'Pushing families deeper into crisis'
Extreme climate conditions in Somalia are causing increased food crop failures and livestock deaths that are driving up food prices, India International Times reported. More Somalians are at risk of facing food insecurity and displacement in the coming months, "pushing families deeper into crisis," said Etienne Peterschmitt, head of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization in Somalia, per IIT. As farmers in Japan, India, and South Africa have all experienced, drought conditions, followed by intense and erratic heavy rainfall, have proved quite difficult to farm in. These extreme weather events and the inconsistent water supply have led to reduced crop yields, increased livestock deaths, and increased agricultural production costs — a burden that is inevitably passed on to consumers. In Somalia, where more than half of the population lives below the poverty line — surviving on less than $2.06 per day, according to the 2023 Somalia Poverty Report — rising food prices put food out of reach for many. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification tool, a global food security tracker, estimates that 24% of the entire country has reached Phase 3, or a crisis stage. According to India International Times, IPC estimates that 1.7 million children aged 5 or under will suffer from acute malnutrition this year, with almost two-thirds of these cases occurring in southern Somalia. Rising global temperatures bring about heat stress and drought conditions that reduce crop yields, which could disrupt the food supply and raise food prices for the average consumer. As Americans have experienced with the massive hike in egg prices, consumers feel the strain of food price hikes on top of the increased cost of daily living. Crop losses due to extreme weather events exacerbate Somalia's food insecurity, causing food prices to remain high and forcing more people to go hungry. These events have also impaired crucial water and sanitation services and infrastructures, causing more waterborne diseases, including diarrhea and cholera. While you may not be able to directly affect what's happening in Somalia, you can still effect positive change from where you are. If you have extra time and want to give back, volunteer at food banks and co-ops that feed the community. Donate nonperishable food to organizations that work to fight food insecurity. Do you worry about how much food you throw away? Definitely Sometimes Not really Never Click your choice to see results and speak your mind. If you feel inclined to contribute monetarily, find a nonprofit organization that actively addresses the food crisis and water and sanitation problems that Somalia is facing. Find one that not only addresses the country's immediate concerns but also invests in the country's future, such as having initiatives that empower women to create a brighter future for themselves and their families. Join our free newsletter for easy tips to save more and waste less, and don't miss this cool list of easy ways to help yourself while helping the planet.
