Four illegal migrants attempting to cross Belarus-Poland border captured

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PR Event in Ebène Cybercity for Flyover Ebène Project

Mauritius: A Public Relations exercise with tenants and stakeholders of Ebène Cybercity in view of the construction of the new interchange along the M3-A14 corridor (Flyover Ebène project) was held on Tuesday, 21 March 2023, at the Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Tower in Ebène.

Mauritius Qualifications Authority renews RPL Support Scheme

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Eastern European countries have long been preferred entry points for illegal Indian migrants seeking to enter and stay in the European Union. However, the ongoing turmoil at the Belarus-Poland has cut off these illegal migrants’ main route.

Many of these settlers have been caught up in the border crisis, possibly unaware of the magnitude of the situation. Migrants began flocking to Belarus in huge numbers this summer, trying to enter the EU.

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The EU, NATO, and the US claimed that Belarus’ president, Alexander Lukashenko, had deliberately led to the border crisis with Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia in retaliation for sanctions imposed on his country for the brutal crackdown on opponents and citizens.

Four men of India, Punjab, crossing overseas for the first time, after being held by Poland’s border police in late November, were among those abandoned at the crossings.

According to a source in Belarus requesting anonymity,” They expected to arrange some sort of rescue team, which is not in my hands.”

After reaching the border, one of four people send a voice message, “Hello, sir. Please help us. We’re four people in the bush, and we’ve been famished for a long time. We haven’t eaten anything for the last three days and haven’t had a drop of water to drink. Our two other friends have already fallen to the ground and are dying.”

While they were more focused to caught other nationalities at the Polish Border in the mod of crisis, in October, the guard of the Polish Border announced that they had arrested 16 Iraqis, two Indians and one Syrian at the border, even as there were 11,300 attempts by Belarusians.

From four people, one is from a village of Samana district, Punjab and one is from Jalandhar, one is from Ludhiana, and one is from Jamsher. A statement given by the father of Hardeep states that, “my son is facing difficulties here in finding a job. He filled numerous forms for the army, and the police, private companies etc., but nothing happened.”

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“Then we took this step to send our son abroad to Russia. He lived and worked there for 1.5 months, and then suddenly, from nowhere, he decided to cross the border.”

The four Punjabis were stuck at the border, texting everybody they knew in Europe and Russia. Sharma, an Indian national living in Portugal, received one of these messages. “I haven’t slept in a week and haven’t been away from my phone,” Sharma added, that someone they met in Russia had given him his phone number.

Sitting in Portugal, “I tried my best to help them, but the situation turned like I was helpless.” They used a donkey, says Sharma. “It is a code term,” Sharma remarked, referring to the four soldiers who were stranded between Belarus and Poland.
They utilised a donkey,” says the narrator.

KFS launches eight utility vehicles to augment forest Protection

Kenya: The Principal Secretary of the State Department of Forestry, Ephantus Kimotho, has urged Kenya Forest Service to lay focus on resource mobilization and stakeholder engagement as a key strategic objective in the growth of the capacity of the Service to implement the 30 percent tree cover target by 2032.

Homa-Bay county schools to compete in tree growing

Kenya: The Governor of Homa-Bay County, Gladys Wanga, has launched a school tree growing competition that will involve all schools in the county in a bid to increase the country's forest cover from the current 3% to 30%.

PR Event in Ebène Cybercity for Flyover Ebène Project

Mauritius: A Public Relations exercise with tenants and stakeholders of Ebène Cybercity in view of the construction of the new interchange along the M3-A14 corridor (Flyover Ebène project) was held on Tuesday, 21 March 2023, at the Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Tower in Ebène.

Mauritius Qualifications Authority renews RPL Support Scheme

Mauritius: The Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Support Scheme, a process to officially recognise and validate competencies gained outside the formal education and training system for the purpose of certification, was renewed yesterday, between the Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) and the Mauritius Qualifications Authority (MQA), during a ceremony held at the Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Tower, in Ebène. The event was followed by a workshop on Portfolio Development for 100 new potential candidates.

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