US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned it will take years for a US-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as Washington said arch-foe Iran had launched its first air strikes against the fighters. Speaking at NATO headquarters in Brussels during the first[…]
French lawmakers voted Tuesday in favour of recognising Palestine as a state, sparking an immediate angry reaction from Israel which said such “unilateral measures” would harm efforts towards Middle East peace. Following hot on the heels of similar votes in Britain and Spain, French MPs voted 339 to 151 in[…]
Kenya’s interior minister and police chief were removed from their posts on Tuesday, hours after Somalia’s Al Shabab rebels carried out a fresh massacre in the northeast of the country. In a televised address to the nation, President Uhuru Kenyatta also vowed his security forces will “intensify the war on[…]
Lebanese authorities detained a woman and young boy believed to be the wife and son of the reclusive Islamic State group leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and were questioning the woman and conducting DNA tests on the child, senior Lebanese officials said Tuesday. If their identities are confirmed, Lebanon may use the pair[…]
The office of Egypt’s public prosecutor said Tuesday it will appeal a court decision to drop a murder charge against ex-president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of protesters during the 2011 uprising. “The prosecutor general has decided to appeal,” a statement said, after a Cairo court Saturday ordered murder and[…]
The ANC walked out of the Western Cape Legislature on Tuesday in protest against Premier Helen Zille’s refusal to withdraw a comment, the ANC in the province said. “The ANC left the sitting of the legislature after [deputy speaker Piet] Pretorius gave a different ruling to accommodate Zille,” ANC Chief[…]
Judgment is expected in the High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday on an application for the SA Police Service to reveal the list of National Key Points. National key points are protected from being photographed or identified as key points, and are understood to include military installations and services or[…]
Transparency International’s rating of South Africa in the 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) indicated a significant problem, Corruption Watch (CW) said on Wednesday. The non-profit organisation said in a statement that South Africa scored 44 out of 100, where 0 indicates a perception that a country is highly corrupt. Of[…]
Concerned parents of pupils from Saxonsea Primary School in Atlantis, held a picket outside the school premises, calling for the dismissal of a teacher. The parents threatened to physically harm the teacher after claims of his drug habits and abuse toward learners surfaced. According to the reports, which were later[…]
Amid claims in a Sunday Independent article alleging that 140 South African’s are now recruited as part of the Islamic State (IS) radical group, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has called for an urgent investigation by the Department of State Security into the reports. Speaking to VOC News, the ulema[…]
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