Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has left South Africa and is returning to Khartoum, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. “The president finished his business in South Africa and is coming back home,” Sudanese Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman told Bloomberg by phone. “Al-Bashir went to South Africa with complete guarantees that it[…]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said he would ask Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to form a coalition government, after it lost its overall majority in legislative elections. Should the AKP fail in the talks, Erdogan said he would then ask the second-placed opposition Republican People’s Party[…]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is no longer a useful organisation, the ANC said on Sunday, in the wake of a court application to compel the government to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. “The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress holds a view that the… ICC is[…]
UN-sponsored talks aimed at ending the conflict in Yemen by bringing representatives of rival factions to Geneva are expected to begin on Monday, the world body says. Announcing the start of “preliminary inclusive consultations” in the Swiss city on Monday, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN’s peace envoy for Yemen, said[…]
Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man Sunday by hitting him with their jeep after shooting him during clashes in the eastern Ramallah village of Kafr Malik, Palestinian medical sources told Ma’an. The mayor of Ramallah, Laila Ghannam, told reporters that 22-year-old Abdullah Iyad Ghanayim had been killed by Israeli soldiers “in[…]
A karaoke fundraiser ended in bloodshed in Belthorn Estate on Saturday night when two men were shot and killed. Officers responded to a shooting at Turfhall Stadium at 23:30, where the body of a 40-year-old man was found on the side of the building. The body of a 45-year-old man[…]
The High Court in Pretoria on Sunday granted an interim order preventing Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir from leaving South Africa, pending an urgent application for his arrest. The application would be heard at 3pm. The Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) is asking Judge Hans Fabricius to enforce two arrest warrants against[…]
“We are all Bassiouni” were the chants reverberating through Sandton in Johannesburg on Friday afternoon, as community members and civil society activists called for the release of Egyptian South African alim Shaykh Abdus Salaam Bassiouni. Sandton in Johannesburg came alive with the #FreeBassiouni protest held outside the African Union Summit,[…]
A group called Protect the Rohingya has called on South Africans to highlight the plight of the Rohingya by wearing black on Saturday 13th June. According to the UN, the Rohingya in Burma are one of the world’s most persecuted ethnic minorities. Human rights violations against the Rohingya have been[…]
Residents in the Hangberg informal settlement in Hout Bay were handed over the keys to new bungalows on Friday, after their homes were burnt a few months ago. The Hout Bay Civic Association requested the assistance of Oceana Brands to put up new housing structures and recently, the fishing company[…]
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