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Ukraine Seeks To Import African Migrants To Fill Labor Shortage After 100s Of 1000s Dead Or Wounded At The Front

Volodymyr Zelensky’s head of his Presidential Office in Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, has announced plans to import migrant laborers from Africa. Essentially, this entails Ukraine establishing new laws for the legal entry and residence of foreign workers.

The government will introduce a new list of “migration-risk” countries to facilitate this plan, according to remarks Budanov made at the CEO Club Ukraine.

“They enter, obtain documents, and then move on. This is a problem that creates barriers for business,” Budanov reportedly said, emphasizing that Ukraine will now move to make it easier for migrants to stay and work in Ukraine.

Last October, rumors swirled that Ukraine was directly recruiting mercenaries from Latin American drug cartels to fight in its war against Russia. Kyiv’s forced conscription policies at home, which often resort to violence, have already raised numerous concerns about the brutal practices of Zelensky’s military as well as the desperate situation Ukraine is in due to loss of life on the frontlines.

It has long been known that Ukraine faces a serious demographic crisis, now exacerbated by men who have died in the war or fled to other countries. Already, there have been voices pushing for mass immigration in Ukraine since the war began. Last year, Remix News reported that Vasyl Voskobojnik, president of the Ukrainian Association of Foreign Employment Agencies, said the population decline can no longer be offset by simply increasing the birthrate. Instead, immigration from Third-World countries is the only solution.

Voskobojnik said the Ukrainian government must develop a migration policy by 2026 that focuses on reducing this shortage.

However, importing foreign workers and foreign warriors (who may or may not have criminal ties) will only add to concerns that Ukraine will ever be a desired member of the European Union, as the EU faces its own crises brought on by mass immigration.

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US Launches 56th Airstrike of the Year in Somalia

US Africa Command said in a press release on Saturday that its forces launched an airstrike in Somalia on April 17, as the pace of US bombings in the country has escalated amid the very fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran.

AFRICOM said that the strike targeted the ISIS affiliate in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region and that it was launched in a remote mountain region about 30 miles southeast of the Gulf of Aden port city of Bosaso.

AFRICOM offered no other details about the attack, as it hasn’t been sharing casualty estimates and assessments on potential civilian harm since last year. US-backed forces in Puntland also rarely share any details about the war, and only occasionally release photos that it claims show captured ISIS fighters, who are based in caves.

“The army has captured one of the ISIS terrorists, and has also recovered livestock from the militants that they had taken from the local population,” The Puntland Counterterrorism Operations said in a post on Telegram on April 12 that included a photo of an alleged ISIS member. “The army’s operations to hunt down the militants are ongoing.”

The US has also been launching airstrikes against al-Shabaab in southern Somalia, where major battles between US-backed government forces and al-Shabaab fighters have taken place in recent weeks.

While the pace of US airstrikes in Somalia slowed slightly at the height of the US-Israeli war against Iran, AFRICOM is still on track to break its annual record of bombings in the country, which President Trump set at 124 last year, breaking a previous record of 63, which he set in 2019.

The US has been involved in Somalia for decades and has been fighting al-Shabaab since the George W. Bush administration backed an Ethiopian invasion in 2006 that ousted the Islamic Courts Union, a Muslim coalition that briefly held power in Mogadishu after taking the city from CIA-backed warlords.

Al-Shabaab was the radical offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, and its first recorded attack was a suicide bombing in 2007 that targeted Ethiopian troops occupying Mogadishu. It wasn’t until 2012 that the group pledged loyalty to al-Qaeda. The ISIS affiliate in Puntland started as an offshoot of al-Shabaab and first emerged in 2015.

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DHS Deports South American Illegal Aliens to Africa as Part of New ‘Safe Third Country’ Agreement

The Department of Homeland Security has deported approximately 15 illegal aliens from Latin America to the Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of a bilateral agreement that allows the U.S. to send third-country nationals to African nations when their home countries refuse repatriation or when migrants successfully block removal by claiming their lives would be in danger at home.

The group arrived in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, early Friday.

An official at the Congolese migration agency confirmed the arrivals to the Associated Press but provided no further details.

U.S. attorney Alma David, who represents one of the deportees, told the Associated Press the migrants are all from Latin America and that the Congolese government plans to keep them in the country for a short period. David said she has been in contact with her client since the arrival.

The deportations are part of the Trump administration’s expanded “Safe Third Country” removal policy.

This approach bypasses legal maneuvers commonly used by migrants who persuade immigration judges that returning to their home country would be unsafe. The policy also addresses cases where countries such as India, China, Vietnam, and Laos refuse to accept their own nationals, particularly those with criminal records.

According to reporting, the Trump administration has now secured agreements with at least seven African nations, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, Eswatini, and Equatorial Guinea.

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Biden Judge Says President Trump Cannot End Protected Status for Thousands of Ethiopians

A federal judge on Wednesday said President Trump cannot end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Ethiopians.

In 2022, the Biden Regime allowed more than 5,000 Ethiopians to enter the US and live here with special protections.

Their TPS status was extended again in April 2024 and expired on February 13, 2026.

Upon taking office again in January 2025, President Trump immediately revoked the Biden-era ‘Temporary Protected Status’ and ordered the DHS to ensure that the TPS designations were limited.

On Wednesday US District Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, said President Trump violated the process by revoking the protections.

Judge Murphy postponed the effective date of the termination of Ethiopia’s TPS designation.

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War-Torn Congo Agrees to Take U.S. Deportees Under Latest Trump Crackdown

The Trump administration has secured a new agreement with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take in deported illegal aliens.

Deportees will begin arriving in the troubled African nation this month under the new arrangement, according to the country’s Ministry of Communications.

The arrangement is described as temporary, with the U.S. covering all logistical costs.

The DRC said the agreement reflects its “commitment to human dignity and international solidarity” and confirmed each case would be reviewed individually.

Their statement read:

This initiative is established in accordance with the sovereignty of the Democratic Republic of the Congo regarding the management of access to and residence of foreigners on its territory, and is part of its international and regional commitments regarding the protection of migrants’ rights.

It also reflects the Congolese State’s unwavering commitment to human dignity and international solidarity. A country deeply affected by humanitarian realities and already hosting populations of diverse nationalities, the Democratic Republic of Congo remains committed to the values of hospitality and shared responsibility among nations.

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The Islamic State Spreads Images of Christian Executions in An Naba from Northern Nigeria and Issues Ultimatum of Conversion, Taxes or Murder to the Infidels

A publication attributed to the Islamic State (ISIS) has appeared in its weekly magazine An Naba with graphic and textual material that documents the execution of at least two people shot at close range in northern Nigeria. The victims, according to the jihadist propaganda, were immobilized on the ground and executed with no possibility of defense.

The same bulletin claims responsibility for the death of 17 Christian civilians and four Nigerian soldiers in additional operations, along with the burning of two entire localities in the region.

One of the actions described took place in the village of Kautekari, where terrorists armed with automatic rifles burst into a residents’ meeting and opened fire.

The jihadist text does not limit itself to boasting about the massacres. It includes an explicit doctrinal justification: “Islamic law gives Christian infidels two options among three options: Islam, a tax, or murder.” The victims, according to the terrorists, “chose their fate.”

This rhetoric reproduces the classic dhimmi ultimatum that ISIS applied in Iraq and Syria: forced conversion, payment of the jizya (the humiliating protection tax) or death. The propaganda also includes images of beheadings of Nigerian Christians and mentions kidnappings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, all framed in a narrative of Islamic supremacy and holy war.This is not an isolated event.

The African branch of ISIS, known as the Islamic State in the West Africa Province (ISWAP), has been consolidating its presence in northeastern Nigeria for years, where it competes with Boko Haram in brutality against Christian communities.

Thousands of the faithful have been murdered, churches burned, and entire villages razed in what religious freedom defense organizations describe as systematic persecution. ISWAP itself has claimed responsibility in the past for executions of Christians, offering them precisely the same three “options” that it now repeats in An Naba.

The Western left and much of the mainstream media continue to maintain a deafening silence in the face of this reality. While they mobilize for any narrative that fits their ideological agenda, the genocide of Christians in Africa and the Middle East barely deserves a paragraph.

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NEVER FORGET: Ilhan Omar’s Father was Top Propaganda Official in Genocidal Somalian Barre Regime – Then He Changed His and Her Name and Entered US Illegally

On Friday J. D. Vance told Benny Johnson in their interview that radical leftist congresswoman Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud. Vance promised the White House will go after Ilhan for her crimes.

The Gateway Pundit has been reporting on Ilhan’s alleged immigration fraud since 2019.

Do Americans know the story on how Ilhan Omar made it into the United States?  In July 2019 we reported on Omar’s father Nur Said. 

Here is what we reported:
David Steinberg published an extensive report on the alleged crimes and history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and the “Omar” family.

In his report, David found that the Omar family changed their name in order to enter the United States.

Via PowerLineBlog:

In 1995, Ilhan entered the United States as a fraudulent member of the “Omar” family.

That is not her family. The Omar family is a second, unrelated family which was being granted asylum by the United States. The Omars allowed Ilhan, her genetic sister Sahra, and her genetic father Nur Said to use false names to apply for asylum as members of the Omar family.

Ilhan’s genetic family split up at this time. The above three received asylum in the United States, while Ilhan’s three other siblings — using their real names — managed to get asylum in the United Kingdom.

Ilhan Abdullahi Omar’s name, before applying for asylum, was Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.

Her father’s name before applying for asylum was Nur Said Elmi Mohamed. Her sister Sahra Noor’s name before applying for asylum was Sahra Nur Said Elmi. Her three siblings who were granted asylum by the United Kingdom are Leila Nur Said Elmi, Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.

Power Line also included this graphic on the Omar Elmi family.

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African migrant is asked about rape, and his response leaves the journalist gobsmacked…

Sit down. This will make you shiver in disgust, but it probably won’t shock you.

A journalist interviewed an African migrant about rape and asked what should have been a very basic human question: do you ever think about the consequences for the victim? What this man spit back was absolutely disturbing. But it also has this moral worldview that is so alien to the West that it’s hard to even process it.

And that’s the real story here. It’s not a shock that some African migrant thinks rape is a-okay. We figured that much. It’s the FACT that a migrant thinks rape is a-okay, and the west thinks this type of person can coexist with them.

That’s the kicker.

This is what the “refugees welcome” crowd never wanted to deal with. They acted as if culture were some shallow thing, like food, clothing, or language, and that people from radically different parts of the world could simply be dropped into Western societies with no consequences at all. But culture shapes everything. It shapes how people view women, sex, violence, shame, law, self-control, all the things…

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60,000-Year-Old “Highly Unusual” Etchings Could Point to Humanity’s Earliest Use of Geometric Design

Evidence of early human use of geometric concepts in prehistoric art has surfaced in southern Africa, revealed in a series of archaeological discoveries that point to complex patterns and repetition in ancient etchings on ostrich eggshells.

The remarkable finds, uncovered at a series of archaeological sites throughout southern Africa, are believed to have been engraved by early Homo sapiens in the regions close to 60,000 years ago—far earlier than previous examples of organized markings suggestive of the use of geometric rules.

The new findings were made by a research team based at the University of Bologna and reported in a study published in PLOS One.

Echoes of Early Geometry?

As the branch of mathematics that involves spatial properties such as shape, size, and relative position, it is known that the Ancient Babylonians began using geometrical calculations to track the movement of planets like Jupiter at least 1,400 years earlier than previously believed.

To compare the etchings uncovered by the team led by Silvia Ferrara, a Professor at the University of Bologna’s Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, to the capabilities of the ancient Babylonians would be off base. However, evidence of more rudimentary geometric thinking—obvious repetition, use of parallel lines, presence of angles (orthogonality), and other distinctive geometric organization—in the ancient African discoveries is hard to ignore.

“These signs reveal a surprisingly structured, geometric way of thinking,” Ferrara said in a statement provided to the University of Bologna’s Unibo Magazine.

“We are talking about people who did not simply draw lines,” Ferrara adds, “but organized them according to recurring principles—parallelisms, grids, rotations, and systematic repetitions: a visual grammar in embryo.”

An Ancient Tale Told on Ostrich Eggs

Ferrara and her team have hypothesized that the primary purpose of these ostrich eggs was to transport water. Probing more deeply into the curious markings that covered many of the eggshell fragments recovered from a trio of southern African archaeological sites, the team conducted a quantitative and systematic investigation of 112 samples.

Employing statistical analysis and geometric methods of investigation that had never been used for such artifacts before, Ferrara and her team reconstructed the lines and designs on the eggshells.

The results were surprising: Ferrara’s team discovered that more than 80% of the etchings they analyzed showed signs of “coherent spatial regularities” and evidence of repetitive orthogonality, with angles near 90° and angles resulting from the convergence of groups of lines drawn parallel to each other.

Ferrara and the team also point to the complexity in several of the etchings, which include repetitive hatched bands, geometric shapes such as simple parallelograms, grid-like motifs, and other features, which they argue as evidence of complex cognitive operations. Beyond the etchings themselves, the markings reveal evidence of rotation, translation, and repetition by the ancient designers, who displayed remarkable capabilities 60,000 years ago at sites in South Africa and Namibia.

Geometric “Mastery” in Ancient Southern Africa

“These engravings are organized and consistent,” Ferrara said, “and show mastery of geometric relationships.”

“There is not only a process of repeating signs: there is real visuo-spatial planning, as if the authors already had an overall image of the figure in mind before engraving it,” she adds.

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More Christians Killed in Nigeria as Media and Democrats Deny Genocide

If mainstream media and American Democrats and liberals are correct that the mass killing of Christians in Nigeria is merely a conflict over grazing land rather than a genocide, then why are so many Christians not only being killed but also abducted? Abduction has never been a defining feature of disputes between herders and farmers in other countries.

In the past twenty-four hours, more reports of the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria have emerged. Priests and laypeople on the ground are posting videos and impassioned cries for help on social media.

Al Jazeera has said Christian genocide is a myth, while mainstream U.S. media have described it as a Republican conspiracy theory and lies made up by President Trump.

Apparently, people in Nigeria have fallen so deeply for Republican lies that they mistakenly believe their own families and parishioners are being killed.

On Thursday, February 19, an armed group invaded the Tungan Duste community in Anka Local Government Area. Although the attack occurred late last week, casualty figures were officially confirmed by police on Monday, February 23.

Thirty-eight people were killed, and numerous residents, primarily women and children, were abducted. Police stated they had prior intelligence about the attack, but were unable to reach the area in time due to poor road access.

Simultaneous attacks also took place late last week in Kebbi State, with official reports and statements from the African Union released over the last 48 hours, February 22–23. Thirty-three people were killed in those raids.

In Taraba State, particularly in Mchia and Donga, reports emerging as of February 23 describe a worsening crisis in the southern region. Ten people were killed in a recent massacre in the village of Mchia.

Church leaders from the Wukari Diocese held a press briefing on February 18, calling for an end to the ongoing attacks on Christians by Fulani militias.

They also released a separate statement detailing that more than 100 people have been killed in the region since early February and that over 200 communities and churches have been destroyed.

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