ARUSHA, Tanzania, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Refugees will not be allowed to enter Tanzania in groups, the country's home affairs minister announced on Tuesday.
Mwigulu Nchemba made the announcement in western Tanzania's region of Kigoma where he oversaw the dismantlement of 5,608 illegal firearms.
Proliferation of arms and ammunitions in Tanzania is largely believed to be fueled by refugees from troubled neighboring countries seeking shelter in the east African nation.
The minister said the decision came after realizing that not all those who claim to be refugees are genuinely in need of protection and shelter in a foreign land.
According to Nchemba, those seeking refuge will be considered as individuals and be allowed in only after they pass checks.
The minister said in the past, people used to approach authorities in groups of tens and hundreds and they were easily granted refuge without thorough checks.
"Before, only one person would speak on behalf of tens or hundreds of arrivals. That has ended from today," he announced.
He further said the groups also included families and individuals who had poor harvest and feared hunger in their countries. Such people took advantage of instability in their countries and smoothly gained entry into Tanzania.
Tanzania is hosting more than 200,000 refugees from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Somalia and a few others from Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia.
Refugee camps are situated in western regions of Katavi, Tabora, Kigoma, and Kagera. Enditem
WASHINGTON, Feb.1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday morning suspended standard committee rules so as to advance two key cabinet nominees picked by President Donald Trump with no Democrat present.
The move came one day after Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee refused to attend a panel vote on Steven Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary and Tom Price as secretary of Health and Human Services, arguing the pair had made misleading statements that needed to be rectified.
Under the rules of the committee, at least one member of each party are required to be in attendance for the panel's work to proceed.
However, following Democrats' boycott, Republican members of the committee on Wednesday agreed by unanimous consent to suspend the rules and thus give Mnuchin and Price green lights.
"We took some unprecedented actions today due to the unprecedented obstruction on the part of our colleagues," Orrin Hatch, the chairman of the Finance Committee, said at the opening of the meeting.
"It's just another way of roughing up the president's nominees," Hatch said.
"Both nominees have yet to answer important questions that impact the American people," the committee's Democrats argued in a letter sent to Hatch Wednesday.
Democrats said Mnuchin should answer more questions about how OneWest Bank, which he headed after the financial crisis, handled foreclosures for mortgages it held, and also whether he was sufficiently forthcoming about foreign entities he helped establish.
Meanwhile, Price's investment activity, including whether his political actions benefitted his personal portfolio, also raises questions, the Democrats claimed.
However, Republicans slammed Democrats as being obstructionists while dismissed their concerns with the two nominees.
The nominees now head to the Senate floor and only require a simple majority of votes to get the final confirmation by the 100-seat Senate in which Republicans hold 52 seats.
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