Right-wing political leaders and groups have called for Israel to exercise control over the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound as the Israeli government takes harsh measures to quell ongoing Palestinian unrest. Returning to the Mount, a hardline right-wing Zionist organisation, announced this week that it would pay 2,000 shekels ($516) to Jewish-Israelis[…]
China’s naval commander told his U.S. counterpart that a minor incident could spark war in the South China Sea if the United States did not stop its “provocative acts” in the disputed waterway, the Chinese navy said on Friday. Admiral Wu Shengli made the comments to U.S. chief of naval[…]
The University of Cape Town (UCT) will be discontinuing its outsourcing policy and has officially committed to in-sourcing six of the basic services needed to maintain the institution. This decision comes after UCT management met with the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union this week. UCT’s Vice Chancellor, Dr[…]
Muslims are finding it easier to travel to holiday destinations abroad, amid a boom in the global halal tourism sector. This emerged at the first World Halal Travel Summit 2015, which concluded in Abu Dhabi last week. The summit brought together a myriad of role-players in the global halal tourism[…]
The City of Cape Town has warned against a new employment scam by an individual purporting to be an official recruiter from the Western Cape Department of Health, who is alleged to be offering community members jobs in exchange for a once off deposit. Some locals have been coaxed by[…]
A group of university professors in the U.K have vowed to take a stand against Israel’s oppression of Palestinians in the occupied territories, as well as its continued violations of international law. Roughly 343 academics have shown their support for a growing academic boycott against the controversial state by cutting[…]
The crowd of students gathering in front of Parliament have started to grow as more protesters, some wearing white headbands, have joined in. Earlier a group of about 100 students and workers gathered outside the gates of Parliament to hand over a memorandum calling for the police minister to be[…]
There is strong evidence that Myanmar’s Rohingya people are facing genocide at the hands of the country’s Buddhist rulers, leaving the ethnic minority group with little choice but to either die at the hands of local persecution, or put their lives in the hands of “people-smugglers” and attempt to flee[…]
Plans to build a mosque in east London that could hold services for up to 9,000 worshippers at a time have been rejected by the planning minister. The Department for Communities and Local Government dismissed appeals against the refusal of planning permission for the mosque in Newham. A spokesman for[…]
OPINION BY Sulaiman Addonia – “Is it worth risking my life for?” my young cousin, an Eritrean refugee in Sudan, asked me. Our telephone conversation took place the day after a boat sunk off the coast of Libya in August, killing more than 200 people. Terrified he would take the[…]
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