#UK to end study visas for #Sudan, #Cameroon, Myanmar, Afghanistan students
The United Kingdom says it will end study visas for students from #Afghanistan, Cameroon, #Myanmar and Sudan, and work visas for Afghans, amid a rise in anti-immigration sentiment in the country.
The UK Home Office said in a statement on Tuesday that “an ’emergency brake’ on visas has been imposed for the first time on nationals from four countries”, following a surge in asylum claims by students on study visas.
The Home Office said the number of asylum applications by students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan had “rocketed” by more than 470 percent between 2021 and 2025.
“Britain will always provide refuge to people fleeing war and persecution, but our visa system must not be abused,” Secretary of State for the Home Department Shabana Mahmood said.
“That is why I am taking the unprecedented......
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/4/uk-to-end-study-visas-for-myanmar-afghanistan-cameroon-sudan-students
🇨🇲#Cameroon: ISWAP militants have attempted to storm a new position of The Rapid Intervention Battalion (Bataillon d'intervention rapide - BIR, a special forces unit of the Cameroonian Armed Forces) in the town of Bargaram, near the Nigerian border.
At least five militants were killed in the failed attack, including one who was reportedly a foreigner. Footage shows the equipment that the BIR captured from the dead militants, including a camera which was supposed to be used in order to film the attack as further propaganda.
(via @BrantPhilip_ on X)
🇨🇲#Cameroon: ISWAP militants claimed responsibility today for the burning of a Cameroonian military outpost in the town of Darak, in northern Cameroon, on Thursday.
(via @AIW898)
🇦🇫#Afghanistan: Footage showing the Taliban conducting training drills in snowy terrain. One of the Taliban militants has a rare assault rifle with a thermal scope.
(via @war_noir)
🇦🇫#Afghanistan: An alleged US Reaper drone crashed near Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan.
It remains unclear whether the drone was shot down or suffered a mechanical failure.
The Taliban has claimed it was downed by a surface-to-air missile. However, similar past claims have often later been attributed to technical malfunctions. The drone visible in the footage bears no identifiable markings.
(📹 via @MenchOsint on X)
🇦🇫#Afghanistan: Four men have been detained by The Taliban for dressing up and LARPing as the Peaky Blinders, a UK series about Birmingham gangsters in the 1900s.
The Taliban's ‘Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice’ accused them of violating ‘local values’ due to them imitating the characters from the series.
In videos posted to TikTok the men are seen strutting around in Herat province, mimmicking their style of Peaky Blinders. It’s reported that they were sent to a rehabilitation centre to correct their ‘pro-western attitude’.
The Taliban described their activity as spreading ‘foreign film style acts’ and, hilariously, said the young men had become known locally as the ‘Thomas Shelby group’.
(via theafghantimes; 📹 via @IhsanTipu on X)
🇲🇲#Myanmar: Four people, including alleged prisoners of war, were killed after Myanmar junta fighter jets carried out airstrikes on a location in Mindat Town.
According to regional reports, the Myanmar military has conducted a total of 11 airstrikes over the past two days, with the attacks also reportedly destroying at least 15 civilian homes.
(via @pvtvmyanmar)
🇲🇲#Myanmar: Footage shows rebels from the People's Defence Forces (PDF) firing a Chinese heavy machine gun at a military aircraft operated by the Burmese military.
(via @war_noir)
🇲🇲#Myanmar: Footage from last week shows Chin Defence Forces rebels, alongside the New Society Army, launching rocket attacks on a "KaPaSa" factory, which is an arms and munitions facility operated by the military junta.
🇲🇲#Myanmar: The rebel Karen group “Cobra Column” carried out an attack on junta forces in Wawlay, launching multiple strikes with RPGs and grenade launchers.
The second part of the video shows the rebels firing at junta positions from an entrenched location.
(via @war_noir)
🇲🇲#Myanmar: Footage showing rebel fighters from various units engaging Junta positions with a PKM from inside a trench.
The videos were posted on April 18th - 20th, however, the exact dating of the events remains unclear.
🇲🇲#Myanmar: Footage shows an anti-junta rebel training with a belt-fed machine gun, reportedly a Pakistani-made copy of the MG42 known as the MG3.
(via @war_noir)