PART TWO A Vision journalist got in touch with traffickers who smuggle people to work in the Middle East on promises of high paying jobs. They smuggled her through Entebbe Airport. Will Dubai become the ‘Promised Land’? Today, Sunday Vision continues with the story of flying into Dubai THERE is nothing impossible in Uganda. The...
FIRST PART KAMPALA – The promise of good jobs and better wages baits many women into investing in travelling to the Middle East to work. Because some get lucky and return with money, many Ugandans pay for job placements in the Middle East, and end up being trafficked as slaves and sex workers. Our brave reporter...
Divorce court papers seen by the BBC allege that the daughter of Zimbabwe’s ex-President Robert Mugabe owned 25 residential properties, including a Dubai mansion, worth a total of around $80m (£64m). Bona Mugabe filed for divorce from former pilot Simba Mutsahuni Chikore in March. Mr Chikore wants to split their assets, which also include 21...
The president of the UN’s COP28 climate conference has said that he sees a future for fossil fuels – even as scientists say the world must rapidly transition to clean energy – in remarks that have raised concerns about a backsliding on climate commitments. Sultan Al Jaber, who will oversee the UN’s COP28 climate summit in Dubai in November,...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) likes to portray itself as a modern, progressive country—a nation on the rise. The home to the glittering skyscrapers and nightclubs of Dubai and Abu Dhabi was last month listed among the top 10 countries of the Global Soft Power Index for the first time—ahead of Australia and Sweden and just behind...
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have joined 40 other rights groups to express their “deep concern” over the UAE’s “sustained assault on human rights and freedoms” as the Gulf state prepares to host the 28th United Nations global climate talks (COP28) later this year. “For more than 10 years, UAE authorities have been unjustly detaining...
Talk about letting the fox into the henhouse. Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber may be a competent politician, diplomat and business leader. But whether the United Arab Emirates’ minister of industry and advanced technology is well suited to chair the forthcoming UN climate summit, COP28, in Dubai this November is a different matter. Besides his cabinet duties, al-Jaber...
Far out on the Arabian Sea one night in February, 2018, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, the fugitive daughter of Dubai’s ruling emir, marvelled at the stars. The voyage had been rough. Since setting out by dinghy and Jet Ski a few days before, she had been swamped by powerful waves, soaking the belongings...
Ruhollah Latifi said that importing non-oil goods worth $5.767 billion from Iran, the UAE was the third top export destination of the Islamic Republic in the previous year. Iran imported non-oil commodities valued at $18.395 billion from the UAE in the past year, which was 11 percent higher than the figure of the preceding year,...
(Nairobi) – A company operating a gold mine in Ethiopia, Midroc Investment Group, and the Swiss refinery Argor-Heraeus that sourced its gold took no action over media reports about pollution from the mine for years, Human Rights Watch said today. An assessment carried out at the Ethiopian government’s request found that local residents had experienced serious health effects....