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I'd really like to talk about the public safety threats associated with this population of aliens and the fact that every administration before President Trump absolutely abdicated their responsibility to the American people by letting criminals back on the street and doing no diplomatic efforts to get these people out of our country.

Percival says third countries, like Eswatini in South Sudan, have agreed to accept deportees with criminal records for first-degree murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, and sexual assault when their home countries refuse to take them back.

What percentage of folks who have been detained and deported are violent offenders?

I don't have that figure off the top of my head.

Zimbabwe replaced the name Rhodesia after independence.

And Eswatini changed its official name from Swaziland in 2018.

Cities have gone through similar changes.

India is a great example.

But why do names matter? What's the point in names? Well, names tell us how people understand themselves.

They tell us how people understand where they live.

A country like Eswatini chose a few years ago to change its name to a traditional name instead of a colonial name.

It used to be Swaziland.

In conclusion, the Holy See Press Office's statement noted the fact that the discussions tend to various international matters with particular attention to the Western Balkans and the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.

The Pope then received in audience the Bishop of Mancini in Eswatini, Monsignor José Luis Gerardo Ponce de León and the Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, Cardinal Giorgio Marengo and his entourage.

The Holy Father also accepted letters of greetings presented by the Ambassador of Chile, Mr. James Sidney Sinclair Manley.

Late on Monday morning, Pope Leo XIV welcomed to the Vatican participants in the 22nd General Chapter of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Andita Touré.

Per the Namibian Parliament, discussions covered the forum's administrative, governance, finance, policy, parliamentary business and donor-funded projects, as well as a proposed model law on child rights and protection.

The meeting's recommendations will be presented to the Plenary Assembly in Eswatini next month.

The General Industries Workers' Union of South Africa is urging the government to introduce an emergency job creation plan amid rising unemployment and mass retrenchments.

Union President Mametloé Sebe says urgent action is needed to protect workers in the automotive metals food and constructive industries he has further criticized an economic system that prioritizes profits over people and called for greater investments in production and employment

According to the Namibian Parliament, Speaker of the National Assembly Sara Kukungelua Amadila attended the meeting, which also addressed finances, parliamentary business and child protection legislation.

Decisions and recommendations will be submitted to the Forum's Plenary Assembly in Eswatini in November.

Still on South Africa, ANC's President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed confidence in the party's electoral prospects in the local government elections, saying it will have plenty to celebrate after next month's fourth polls.

He made the remarks during a door-to-door campaign in Soweto yesterday.

I wanted to talk to people who were living through the fallout.

I've done that, and I'm not negotiating with people who don't care about due process anymore, don't understand that people who are innocent are being sent to third countries called Eswatini, and they have no rights.

They are indefinitely detained.

They are sending people to CIA black sites in broad daylight And you guys are all going, this is about politics.

And then there were a number of subsequent arrests that were made over the years.

You remember there were two guys, the Ndemani brothers, who fled to Eswatini and then they were arrested in Eswatini and had to be extradited back to South Africa so they can face This trial.

So it's been about three years that the police have obviously been investigating this matter.

And it's now on trial.

And there was a very interesting study that was done actually recently at Nanjing University that showed in 197 countries and regions between 2000 and 2023, that the more Belt and Road infrastructure was built, the further debt falls and also corruption reduces.

In addition to all of that, China's introduced zero tariff access on all product lines for all African countries or all African countries with which it has diplomatic relations, which is all African countries with the exception of Eswatini, which still recognizes Taiwan.

China is engaged in technology transfer.

China is helping countries to rise up the value chain.