refugees

Jack Dorsey’s Square partners with entrepreneur refugees on payments | Startups 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 17, 2019
Square, the payments company headed up by Jack Dorsey, has partnered with entrepreneurial refugees from TERN (the Entrepreneurial Refugee Network) to supply payment technology for small-scale businesses. Speaking at London Tech Week, Dorsey sat on a panel with three such entrepreneurs who had leveraged the small terminal devices. The entrepreneurs speaking at the event included Naglaa
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Salvini crackdown: bulldozers clear Italian camp housing 1,500 refugees | Global development 0
- BUSINESS
- March 6, 2019
More than 1,500 people are being ousted from the refugee camp at San Ferdinando, in southern Italy, in the first major eviction since Italy’s rightwing populist government’s immigration measures kicked in. On Wednesday morning, almost 1,000 paramilitary police officers surrounded the 400 shacks where the migrants have lived since the camp was established in 2010,
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