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Johannesburg – Xenophobic attacks erupted in Benoni on the East Rand yesterday, Eyewitness News (EWN) reported. According to EWN, police fired rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse a crowd throwing…
Foreigners make positive contribution to SA – Minister
Cape Town – Foreign nationals must not be attacked because most contribute positively to the country, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said in Parliament yesterday. “From the outset, we would…
SA united against xenophobia in Durban
Durban – Blacks, whites, coloureds, Indians, and foreigners gathered in Durban yesterday morning in solidarity against deadly xenophobic violence that broke out in KwaZulu-Natal and has since spread to Johannesburg.
Stop the killing – Zuma
Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma called for an end to the killing linked to the xenophobic attacks on Wednesday that has left five people dead in the Durban area, and…
MH370 search area to be widened
The Malaysian government has said the search area for the MH370 airliner that went missing will be expanded by another 60,000sq/km in the Indian Ocean if it is not found…
UN urging exhumation of DRC mass grave
Kinshasa – The UN mission in Democratic Republic of Congo urged the government on Wednesday to exhume more than 400 bodies buried last month in a mass grave, the head…
Nigerian army focuses on area abducted girls held
Lagos – Nigerian military operations against Boko Haram are focusing on a north-eastern forest where officials believe more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago are being held, the government’s…
Children killed in Damascus suburbs shelling
At least 10 people have been killed according to a monitoring network after Syrian government forces shelled the southeastern suburbs of Damascus, an area that has come under intensive assault…
Pakistan halts executions given by military courts
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has suspended death sentences handed down by the country’s new military courts, set up in the wake of a Taliban massacre at a school in December last…
Egypt official says she burned books ‘corrupting’ kids
Cairo – An Egyptian education official under investigation for burning library books from a school suspected of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood defended her decision on Wednesday, saying she herself…