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The Tanzania High Commission in Nigeria is set to donate N1.7m naira to charity in commemoration of Tanzania’s 60th Independent anniversary.

The Tanzanian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Benson Bana made this known at a press briefing in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
 
Dr. Bana said that the donation was part of a five days of activities which includes an inter faith prayer service, photo exhibition, a visit to orphanages and an open dialogue on the achievements of Tanzania since independence.
 
Dr. Bana noted that in 60 years, the country has made remarkable achievements including having its first female president.
 
Therefore, the discussions will also focus on the role of women in governance, while also evaluating Pan-Africanism and Tanzania’s contributions to the liberation of other African nations. - Emmanuel Ukoh, Voice of Nigeria

Paul Kiongera, who is in a relationship with an Irish woman, brought a legal challenge. He brought the legal challenge against the Minister for Justice seeking to overturn a finding in his visa refusal that he also could not apply for a visa for another five years.

 

A Kenyan professional footballer has failed in a High Court challenge over his efforts to come and live in Ireland and continue a long-term relationship with the daughter of an Irishman who set up a charity in Kenya.

Paul Kiongera, who has played for a number of Kenyan clubs, is in a relationship with Triona Sheehy, daughter of Kerry native Eddie Sheehy who set up a charity to provide third-level education for Kenyan students.

He and Ms Sheehy brought the legal challenge against the Minister for Justice seeking to overturn a finding in his visa refusal that he also could not apply for a visa for another five years. The prohibition came into operation from the date of the refusal decision, June 23 last year.

The court heard Mr Kiongera and Ms Sheehy first met Kenya in 2012 when he was assisting her father in his charity work in his capacity as a footballer.

They remained in regular contact following her return to Ireland and she subsequently spent four summers in Kenya and later moved there to work in a primary school in Nairobi.

False passport

He first visited Ireland in December 2017 as part of a visit by his country’s football team for the under-20s World Cup.

However, the court heard a false passport was used in that visit in which he gave a different first name and birth date. He was actually 22 at the time.

He came for a six-week visit in August 2019 and returned and by then the couple’s plans were for him to seek to come and live more permanently here. He arrived at Dublin Airport on November 17th or 18th, 2019, when he was denied entry after it was discovered the passport he was travelling on had different details to those which appeared on a previous visa application.

He was also told he would be precluded from applying for a visa again for five years. He appealed the five-year preclusion element to the Minister.

While accepting it was wrong for him to have relied on a false passport, he argued the mitigating circumstances were that he was not the person who had obtained that passport, or devised the idea, or brought it to finality with the issuing of the passport.

It was submitted on his behalf that the Minister should take into account the gravity of the consequences of the refusal of the application and to “assess the level of culpability” of Mr Kiongera in the procurement of the passport with false details.

The Minister rejected his appeal and he brought judicial review proceedings specifically challenging the five-year prohibition on applying for a visa again.

It was argued, among other things, that there was simply no reason given for imposing the maximum preclusion period of five years and that his mitigating circumstances were not properly engaged with.

The Minister opposed the proceedings.

It was argued the officer who heard his appeal believed the facts were sufficiently grave to warrant the imposition of the five-year period and in circumstances where multiple instances of false information being supplied had been set out.

In his judgment rejecting Mr Kiongera’s case, Mr Justice Cian Ferriter said it could not be said his specific case in relation to the five-year preclusion condition was not engaged with or that reasons were not provided by the decision-maker for refusing his appeal against the maximum five-year preclusion condition.

There is no question but that the appeal decision contained a reasoned rejection of his appeal grounds relating to the imposition of the five year condition, he said.

The judge also did not see that the law on reasons requires the Minister, in the context of an ex gratia, non-statutory scheme relating to persons who enjoy no Irish, EU or European Convention rights per se, to expressly spell out in an appeal decision why a lesser period of preclusion was considered inappropriate on the facts of the case.

The substance of his case was clearly engaged with and rejected on a reasoned basis in the appeal decision.

He refused the reliefs sought. - THE IRISH TIMES

Photo via Embassy of the People's Republic of China

 

On November 30, 2021 local time, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Burundian Foreign Minister Albert Shingiro on the sidelines of the Eighth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Dakar.

Wang Yi said that China and Burundi are all-weather friends and all-round partners. China is willing to take the important consensus of the two heads of state as a guide and take the successful convening of this forum as an opportunity to promote the implementation of the forum outcomes in Burundi, carry out a higher level of mutually beneficial cooperation, and help the country achieve development and revitalization.

Shingiro extended warm congratulations to New China on the 50th anniversary of the restoration of its legal seat in the United Nations, and spoke highly of China's contributions to the success of this forum. Shingiro said that the "nine programs" announced by President Xi Jinping fully meet the needs of Africa's development. Burundi looks forward to cooperating with China in agriculture, infrastructure, vocational and technical training, and medical equipment within the framework of the forum.

Shingiro said that Burundi and China share a brotherly friendship, and the two countries have always respected, trusted and helped each other. Burundi firmly supports the one-China principle, supports China in safeguarding its core interests, supports the Beijing Olympic Winter Games, and opposes the politicization of sports.

Wang Yi said that mutual support is the fine tradition of the two countries. China appreciates Burundi's firm support on issues involving China's core interests and major concerns. China also supports Burundi in safeguarding independence and national dignity, and will continue to speak up for Burundi in the international arena. - Embassy of the People's Republic of China

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