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‘There’s wee girls inside’: panic as masked men storm house in Belfast

Sudanese asylum seeker was charged with attempted murder in relation to a knife attack. Photograph

‘You can never be safe’: Belfast’s Sudanese community hunkers down after grisly attack

Sudanese asylum seeker was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The man, aged 30, was later charged

What the data does and doesn't tell us about asylum seekers in Northern Ireland

asylum seekers in Northern Ireland **Police in Northern Ireland say a refugee charged with the attempted murder of a man in Belfast on Monday evening initially entered the country by crossing the border with

Police fire plastic bullets in effort to contain race riots in Northern Ireland

Sudanese man charged with attempting to murder Stephen Ogilvie on Monday night, continued to stir political debate. Alodid, who travelled from Sudan to Paris and then Dublin before taking a bus to Belfast

Up to 90% of Ireland’s asylum seekers may have entered from Northern Ireland, data shows

Sudanese refugee, has been charged with attempted murder. The attack triggered two nights of violence after it emerged Alodid had travelled from Sudan to Paris and then Dublin before taking a bus to Belfast where

Why has Belfast erupted in anti-immigrant violence after a knife attack?

charged with attempted murder, possession of a bladed weapon in a public place and making threats to kill after he repeatedly slashed a man in his 40s in the head and neck on Monday. Northern

U.K. leaders call for calm as protests break out after Belfast street stabbing

Sudanese man accused of trying to kill a man in a vicious stabbing on a Belfast street sparked fiery anti-immigration protests because the suspect is an asylum seeker. [![People hold images of victim Henry

Minister condemns ‘racist thuggery’ as violence returns to Northern Ireland

seekers. The street violence sparked by Monday’s [brutal stabbing](/news/2026/6/10/protesters-torch-cars-buildings-in-belfast-after-knife-attack) carried out by a Somalian man granted asylum has not only heightened far-right-provoked tension in the UK over immigration, but has also

Man to appear in court over Belfast knife attack as rioting described as ‘race-based pogrom’ by SDLP leader – UK politics live

murders and mostly targeted at asylum seekers. Last night, in [Northern Ireland](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/northernireland), there were similar race riots, triggered by a knife attack involving a Sudanese suspect. Here is our overnight story about

Protesters torch cars, buildings in Belfast after knife attack

Sudanese man was arrested over a knife attack that left one person with serious injuries. Hundreds of protesters, many of them masked, gathered at several locations across the city on Tuesday, setting fire

Terror adviser calls for security discussion on migration

Sudanese man charged with attempted murder had entered the UK in 2023 and was given refugee status. He told BBC Radio 4 Today programme it was "absolutely legitimate to talk about immigration in the context

Thursday briefing: What would it take for streets to be safe for all?

charged with his attempted murder. Horrific footage of the bloodied attacker straddling his victim circulated on social media, and was seized on by far-right agitators, who escalated local shock and exhorted people