Hunger Striking Illegal Immigrants in Belgium in Critical Condition

Eighty asylum-seekers in Brussels are nearing death after going for eighty days without food. The hunger strikers are protesting the government’s refusal to grand them resident permits in the country. The asylum-seekers come from a variety of places – Nepal, the Ivory Coast, Congo, Iran, Algeria, Guinea, and Brazil, and whose applications have either been…

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More foreigners granted asylum in 2007

Some 2,122 requests for asylum were approved in Belgium in 2007 – an increase from the previous year. Despite this, there were fewer requests for asylum between 2007 and 2006. Most asylum seekers in Belgium are from Chechnya, Rwanda, Iraq, Kosovo, and Congo.

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    France wants African help to fight illegal immigration

    France wants to clinch agreements on curbing immigration with some 20 African countries by the end of 2009, Immigration Minister Brice Hortefeux said Wednesday. An agreement is currently under negotation with Congo Republic and “in the coming months I will begin discussions with other countries,” Hortefeux told a conference of French ambassadors in Paris. “We…

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