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U.S. says it will repatriate to Nigeria about $1 mln embezzled by ex-official

U.S. says it will repatriate to Nigeria about $1 mln embezzled by ex-official

KANISHKA SINGH THE United States will repatriate to Nigeria nearly $1 million, which was embezzled by the former governor of an oil-producing state, the U.S. Justice Department said. The step was in accordance with an agreement between the two governments to repatriate assets the United States forfeited that were traceable to what it calls the kleptocracy of Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, former governor of the oil-producing state of Bayelsa in the Niger Delta, the Justice Department said in a statement.= Alamieyeseigha was accused of corruption in 2005 when he was caught with almost a million pounds in cash in his London home and was…
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Ethiopia brings some migrants home as concern over Saudi camps grows

Ethiopia brings some migrants home as concern over Saudi camps grows

EMELINE WUILBERCQ ETHIOPIA will repatriate nearly 2,000 migrants from Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks, a government minister has said, amid growing international concern over conditions in migrant detention camps. Ethiopia is estimated to have tens of thousands of workers in Saudi Arabia and is under pressure to bring them home after the coronavirus left many stranded there with no work and no money. But Tsion Teklu, a state minister for foreign affairs, said the country did not have the resources to bring back the estimated 14,000 detained in Saudi camps that the United Nations this week warned were overcrowded…
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