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| Nigeria: Govt Imports N109 Billion Fish From Norway Annually |
| [Norwaynews] [03.02.2012, 01:38pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Nigeria imports fish worth about N109.2 billion ($700 million) annually from Norway, the Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria, Kjell Lillerud has said. He said this yesterday in Abuja when he visited the Minister of state for Trade and Investment, Dr Samuel Ortom.Lillerud said that though he does not have the tonnage of fish that gets to Nigeria, there are three categories with stock fish taking the lead. |
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Asylum
| Sri Lankan woman's death in Norway bares plight of a Nation deprived of international justice |
| [Norwaynews] [03.02.2012, 08:54pm, Fri. GMT] |
24-year-old Garolin Vinotha Nesarajah, who killed herself along with her 20-month-old baby boy on 16 January in a refugee centre in Førde in Western Norway, was not prepared for her deportation, as she feared she would be interrogated and tortured by the Sri Lanka Army back home, reporters in Jaffna said. Garolin immolated herself along with the baby, the Norwegian police think.
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| | | | Child refugees from Libyan crisis in Norway for UN resettlement process |
| [Norwaynews] [17.01.2012, 04:47pm, Tue. GMT] |
| A group of 33 unaccompanied children who spent months in a refugee camp in Tunisia after fleeing last year’s turmoil in Libya have arrived in Norway for a resettlement process spearheaded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The children, who left for Norway on Sunday, were among 90 youngsters who arrived in Tunisia from Libya unaccompanied, with some having lost their parents or were separated during their flight from the chaos that engulfed Libya during the military campaign to oust the regime of Muammar al-Qadhafi. |
| | | | Costly to be a Norwegian citizen |
| [Norwaynews] [24.11.2011, 06:42pm, Thu. GMT] |
| It costs to become a Norwegian citizen. Since 2005, the price to apply for citizenship rose from 1,000 to 2,500 NOK. Meanwhile, the price of passports and driving licenses declined. To obtain a permanent residence permit, the applicant must pay a further 1,600 kroner, according to Aftenposten. Six years ago, it cost only 600 kroner. The price for family immigration permits have gone up from 600 to 3,000 kroner. |
| | | | Norway’s asylum seeker rape epidemic continues to spread |
| [Norwaynews] [04.11.2011, 08:19pm, Fri. GMT] |
There have been twice as many rapes committed in Oslo so far this year as in the whole of 2010, nearly all of them by immigrants, Oslo Police statistics have revealed. Of the 48 rapes committed in the city in 2011, a suspected 45 are from people of a ‘non-Western background’ (code for non-white), most of whom are said to be asylum seekers.
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| | | | Norwegian immigrants will celebrate 125-year anniversary |
| [Norwaynews] [04.10.2011, 07:38pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Olivet Evangelical Free Church will celebrate its 125th anniversary with three events focused on its music, missions and ministry. Olivet was founded in 1886 by a group of Norwegian immigrants who built a “house of prayer” at the corner of Southern and Franklin. |
| | | | Anti-Immigration Sentiment Rises in ‘Tolerant’ Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [10.07.2011, 11:47am, Sun. GMT] |
| The number of Norwegians who want a stop to immigration has never been so high, as the country is subjected to record levels of third-world invasion. 53.7 per cent of citizens said they want a complete stop to immigration, a rise from 45.8 per cent in 2005. Of the 1,380 people interviewed for the ‘Integration’s Barometer 2010’ survey, 48.7 per cent also said that Norway’s policies of integration have failed, a 12 per cent rise from 2005. |
| | | | Human rights breach in case of migrant deported from Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [01.07.2011, 07:42am, Fri. GMT] |
| The fundamental human rights of deported foreign nationals may be breached if they are separated from their children in the host country, according to a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights. Europe’s highest human rights court decreed that the fundamental right of a Dominican woman to enjoy family life was breached when the Norwegian authorities issued a deportation order that would separate her from her two children. |
| | | | Norway denies asylum to Gaddafi's Ukrainian nurse - report |
| [Norwaynews] [10.05.2011, 03:42pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Norwegian immigration authorities have denied asylum to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's Ukrainian nurse, the Vg Nett daily reported on Tuesday. Halyna Kolotnytska, thought to be a Gaddafi confidante, requested political asylum in Norway last week. There has been no official confirmation or denial of the report, however, and the paper said Kolotnytska, 38, could yet be allowed to stay in Norway. |
| | | | Serbia and Norway almost neutralised the problem of false asylum seekers |
| [Norwaynews] [21.04.2011, 07:45am, Thu. GMT] |
| Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic said yesterday after meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre that the Norwegian and Serbian authorities have almost neutralised the problem of false asylum seekers in Norway. |
| | | | Easiest way to get Asylum in Norway? |
| [Norwaynews] [30.01.2011, 12:31pm, Sun. GMT] |
Pakistani police in the port city of Karachi have arrested a Muslim student under the country's controversial blasphemy law for allegedly writing derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammed in his examination answer sheets. Muhammad Samiullah, an intermediate student, was arrested on Friday following a complaint from the Chief Controller of the Intermediate Board, who accused him of blasphemy. A case of blasphemy was registered against him at the Shahrah-e-Noor Jahan police station. |
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| Srilankan asylum seeker kills herself and her child in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [20.01.2012, 08:33am, Fri. GMT] |
| A 24-year-old Srilankan asylum seeker has set fire to herself and her 20-month-old baby child Tuesday at an asylum camp in western Norway. The Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende reported Thursday that the mother succumbed to her injuries the same day and the son on Wednesday after doctors fought to save their lives. The future was very bleak for the victim, who was living in Norway since 2006 undergoing a lot of suffering. One week before her death, her 18-year-old sister was found dead in Jaffna, Srilanka. |
| | | | Norwegian UN worker kidnapped in Yemen |
| [Norwaynews] [15.01.2012, 01:45pm, Sun. GMT] |
| A Norwegian man who was working for the United Nations was kidnapped by armed tribesmen in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday, officials said. Norwegian Foreign Ministry spokesman Frode Overland Andersen said the ministry was informed the 34-year-old Norwegian man was abducted early Sunday, but wouldn't give any more details. |
| | | | Increase in Immigrant Population |
| [Norwaynews] [24.11.2011, 06:37pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Figures from Statistics Norway for the first three quarters of 2011 show that the increase in population in Norway continues. The figures show there is a growth in population in 309 of the 430 municipalities in the country. This is seven more than last year and the highest figure for the first three quarters of the period between 1998-2011. |
| | | | Norway strengthens cooperation with Greece in the asylum field |
| [Norwaynews] [02.11.2011, 03:17pm, Wed. GMT] |
| Norway will provide NOK 160 million to help Greece deal with its large number of asylum seekers and migrants. This funding will be provided under the EEA and Norway Grants. Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre commented, “Migration is a major challenge for Europe, and not least for Greece. |
| | | | Increasing number return voluntarily |
| [Norwaynews] [24.09.2011, 08:19am, Sat. GMT] |
An increasing number of asylum seekers who have been denied asylum in Norway, now choose to return home voluntarily. One reason is the generous economic state support, NRK reports. We are satisfied with this development, but the potential for voluntary return is still great, says Ida Børresen, director of the State Aliens Office (UDI). |
| | | | Criminal immigrants deported |
| [Norwaynews] [01.07.2011, 03:32pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Fourteen criminal Nigerian illegal immigrants to Norway were this week returned to their homeland by the Norwegian Police. Nine of them had been convicted of more than 50 offences. All of them are convicted of drug-related crimes, and several are in addition convicted of ID falsification, threats and gross violence. |
| | | | New Rules Will Make it Easier to Incarcerate Refugees |
| [Norwaynews] [03.06.2011, 06:06am, Fri. GMT] |
| The Government will present a new law before summer that will make it easier for police to incarcerate refugees that commit criminal acts. “While preserving the refugees’ right to seek asylum, it’s well known that certain people abuse the system by committing crimes,” says Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. “It’s not only a challenge for society, but it also threatens the entire asylum institute and people’s ability to seek asylum against severe human rights violations.” |
| | | | Gaddafi's Ukrainian nurse seeks asylum in Norway |
| [Norway] [06.05.2011, 07:36am, Fri. GMT] |
| A Ukrainian nurse described as a close confidante of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has applied for political asylum in Norway. Galyna Kolotnytska was propelled into the spotlight when Wikileaks published a US embassy cable saying Colonel Gaddafi "relies heavily" on her. It quoted a US diplomat describing her as as a "voluptuous blonde". |
| | | | Alarming UNE |
| [Norwaynews] [05.03.2011, 02:06pm, Sat. GMT] |
Abdul Karim Hossain sent to Syria in August 2010. He had been involved in human rights work and held managerial positions in the Association of Syrian Kurds in Norway. Syria has long been considered one of the worst countries in the Middle East when it comes to serious human rights violations and persecution of dissidents. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty report regularly on arbitrary detention and the use of torture.
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| | | | Illegal Russian immigrant Sent Back To Russia |
| [Norwaynews] [24.01.2011, 08:11pm, Mon. GMT] |
A young Illegal Russian asylum seeker, Madina Salamova, who was crowned Norway's "Citizen of the Year" after writing about her life as an illegal immigrant, was expelled from Norway today. The deportation, which she had been told to prepare for, took place without incident. Salamova boarded an afternoon Aeroflot flight to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The 25-year-old Salamova had been living illegally in Norway since 2004 when her family's final asylum request was denied.
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