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A refugee camp in Sudan

Africa’s Forgotten Crisis Risks New Asylum Wave

In the two or three years prior to the 2015/16 deluge of asylum seekers, the EU, of which Britain was still a part, should have known that a mass movement of people would follow upheaval and conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, as well as in Africa.. And yet, everyone

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Cutting Student Visas: Bringing Migration Under Control

The numbers speak for themselves. In 2024, student visas accounted for 45% of all UK entry visas issued – the single largest route for legal migration. This surge is no accident. In 2019, ministers set a target of 600,000 international students by 2030; they hit it in 2022. Universities, free

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