Tag: rohingya

Has Facebook become a “beast” really?

Mar 14, 2018

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by

Ediri Oyibo

in Internet

On Monday two United Nations (UN) officials tasked with looking into abuses in Myanmar took shots at Facebook as part of a UN Human Rights Council hearing; with one of the officials referring to the social media platform as a “beast”. When asked whether the platform was good or bad for the emerging democracy, UN…
Catalans, Rohingyas and other minority eruptions – Owei Lakemfa

Oct 7, 2017

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by

Femi Ajasa

in Columnist, Editor’s Pick

By Owei Lakemfa Minorities, or those who feel they have become minorities, are erupting across the world; English-speaking Camerounians in Africa, the Rohingya in Asia, the Kurds in the Arab world and the Catalans in Europe. Today in Catalonia, one of the wealthiest of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions, the right to self-determination is no longer…