The Israeli occupation forces evicted four Palestinian families from their homes in the Khirbet Al-Yirza area of the Jordan Valley, in the northern occupied West Bank, to make way for military training exercises in the area. Activist Aref Daraghmeh said that Israeli military forces were heavily deployed in Khirbet Al-Yirza.[…]
Health workers in Congo were setting up refrigerators on Monday to keep cool an Ebola vaccine needed to tackle an outbreak suspected to have infected 43 people, the health ministry said. Giving the latest figures on the epidemic, which was declared just days after an outbreak in northwestern Congo 2,500[…]
South Africa’s largest organised farmers’ body will keep an eye on the ANC’s plans to target 139 farms in test cases for expropriation without compensation and will go to the Constitutional Court if necessary, it says. On Sunday, City Press reported that the ANC had identified 139 farms to be[…]
Former South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani‘s killer Janusz Walus is expected to approach the high court in Pretoria for another attempt to get parole on Tuesday. Walus’ previous court application to be released on parole failed. He and his accomplice and former Conservative Party leader Clive Derby-Lewis were[…]
Boris Johnson, the former British foreign secretary, has come under fire after Islamophobic comments targeting Muslim women wearing face veils. In an opinion piece published in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, the Tory politician and leading figure in a campaign for Britain to leave the European Union said that Muslim women wearing[…]
The City of Cape Town has suspended its services in Khayelitsha after three MyCiti busses were stoned and two Golden Arrow busses were torched this morning. A third MyCiTi bus was stoned along the N2 freeway just before the service was suspended. Thousands of commuters have been left stranded, as[…]
Tourists fled the Indonesian island of Lombok on Monday after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake killed at least 98 people – a death toll expected to rise. More than 200 people were seriously injured in Sunday’s shallow quake as rescue workers scrambled to reach survivors in remote areas. National Disaster Mitigation Agency[…]
A Palestinian teen shot by Israeli forces on the Gaza-Israel frontier during the first Great March of Return protest on 30 March has died, Gaza’s health ministry said late Sunday. The 17-year-old, identified as Ahmed al-Ayeda, was “martyred” after being shot by live Israeli fire east of Bureij refugee camp[…]
Saudi Arabia has said it is freezing all new trade with Canada and expelling its ambassador over its “interference” in the kingdom’s domestic affairs. A Saudi foreign ministry statement said it considered Canada’s call last week for the release of detained civil society and women’s rights activists a violation of[…]
The Taxi Task Team has condemned the torching of two Golden Arrow buses in Khayelitsha in Cape Town, but has denied that their members were responsible. Some taxi operators embarked on a strike on Monday morning, blaming lack of leadership by South Africa National Taxi Council (Santaco). Several taxi commuters[…]
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