Hard numbers: DeSantis to do it all again, Sweden’s new government, China’s corruption party, flood tax in Nigeria
100: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is reportedly plans to send another group of undocumented migrants to a Democratic-controlled state, with about 100 people to be flown to Illinois and Delaware. DeSantis, who has blasted the Biden administration’s immigration policies while positioning himself as a rising GOP star, is already facing legal action from the last time he sent migrants north.
3: Ulf Kristersson, leader of the centre-right party Moderates, will lead a three-party minority coalition government backed for the first time by the surging far-right Sweden Democrats, whose criticism of Sweden’s liberal immigration policy led them to a Other seat in last month’s general election.
5 million: Communist Party of China says it has investigated nearly 5 million of its members for corruption over the past decade. President Xi Jinping has made a point of tackling graft, although critics say he is using anti-corruption as a scythe to undermine their rivals. Spoiler: Cases have been brought in only 0.01% of party membership investigations.
1.4 million: Devastating floods across large parts of Nigeria has been displaced at least 1.4 million people from their homes and led to at least 600 deaths. The destruction of huge tracts of farmland is exacerbating food security pressures on Africa’s most populous nation at a time when global food prices are already punishingly high.