Arab MK Basel Ghattas said this week that threats by fellow Israeli lawmakers to remove his parliamentary immunity will not affect his decision to take part in the Freedom Flotilla III. The Israeli Knesset Committee reportedly voted in favor Tuesday of stripping Ghattas, a member of the Joint List– the[…]
Worshipers from the Gaza Strip will be barred from travelling to Jerusalem for prayer in the Al-Aqsa mosque this week after rocket fire from Gaza, the coordinator of Israeli government activities in the Palestinian territory said Wednesday. The announcement came after rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit an open[…]
The Media Review Network (MRN) has written an open letter to the Chinese government and embassy regarding the human rights violations against the Uyghur Muslims. The Ambassador TIAN Xuejun The Peoples Republic of China Sir The Media Review Network South Africa (MRN) is an advocacy group concerned with human rights[…]
Cape Town has lost another elderly alim – Imam Achmat Makki Edwards, who passed away on Tuesday night at the age of 78. The imam was fondly known as ‘Imam Makki’ as he was born in Makkah. The cleric was a member of the Muslim Judicial Council’s (MJC) Imarah, the[…]
Pro-Palestine solidarity groups have described the United Nations report on last year’s Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip as “devastating”. The 183-page report released on Monday details how in total over 2251 Palestinians were killed, including 551 children. More than 11000 Palestinians, including 3436 children, were injured with almost 10[…]
The High Court in Pretoria is on Wednesday expected to give its reasons for its ruling that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir be kept in South Africa and arrested. On June 15, the court ruled the failure to detain Al-Bashir was inconsistent with the Constitution, and he must be detained pending[…]
Government came under withering criticism on Tuesday from most opposition parties for disregarding a court order to keep and arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in South Africa while attending an African Union summit. Beginning the debate in Parliament in Cape Town, Democratic Alliance MP Stevens Mokgalapa said the executive was[…]
The City of Cape Town urged residents in low lying areas on Tuesday to put measures in place to reduce the risk of flooding. This followed a weather warning from the city’s disaster risk management centre. “With flooding expected in many regions of the Western Cape, including in the Cape[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group says it has destroyed two ancient shrines close to the Syrian city of Palmyra, seized by the armed group a month ago. Photographs posted online appeared to show the shrines, 4km from Palmyra, being blown up and reduced to rubble[…]
young female suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and injured more than 20 in an attack on Tuesday in a market in northeast Nigeria, several witnesses said, the second such attack within 24 hours. The attack bore the hallmarks of radical group Boko Haram, which is stepping up suicide[…]
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