UK transfers asylum-seekers to docked barge
People board the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge at Portland Port in Dorset, England, Aug. 7, 2023. A small group of asylum-seekers have been moved to a barge moored in southern England as the government tries to cut the cost of sheltering a rising number of people arriving in the country.
Britain has begun moving asylum-seekers out of government-funded hotels and onto a large barge docked off the country’s southwest coast. The move is part of a controversial plan by the Conservative government to crack down on the number of asylum-seekers arriving on small boats off UK shores. And, Brigadier Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou was Washington’s point person in Niger, in charge of elite forces that US troops had been training to fight militants. Now, he’s the spokesperson for the military junta that ousted Niger’s democratically elected president. Also, while most of the globe’s economies are grappling with the effects of inflation, China’s economy is charting a different course — suffering from deflation. Plus, how the siege of Sarajevo turned this musician from a pop-star to a punk rocker.
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