The Myanmar army has been accused of carrying out extrajudicial killings in the restive Rakhine region, with residents and activists accusing soldiers of shooting indiscriminately at unarmed Rohingya men, women and children and carrying out arson attacks. Authorities in Myanmar say close to 100 people have been killed since Friday[…]
The daughter of IPID head Robert McBride has spoken out against his comments that she was influenced into making assault claims against him, according to reports. McBride has been accused of assaulting his teenage daughter, which he denied in a statement issued by his spokesperson on Saturday. He said he[…]
The body of a third miner was brought to the surface at the Kusasalethu mine near Carletonville, Harmony Gold said on Monday. “Our sincerest condolences go to the family and friends of the deceased. We will not rest until the other two employees have been found and brought to surface,”[…]
The leader of Angola’s main opposition party called on the country’s electoral commission on Saturday to explain how it compiled provisional election results giving the ruling MPLA party a landslide victory. Isaias Samakuva said his UNITA party, which has rejected the published results of Wednesday’s national ballot, was conducting a[…]
Lebanon’s army has announced a ceasefire in its offensive against ISIL fighters at the country’s northeast border with Syria. The ceasefire took effect at 7am local time (04:00 GMT) on Sunday in order to determine the fate of Lebanese soldiers who are in ISIL captivity, the military statement said. Reporting[…]
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has launched a veiled attack on white South Africans. He’s also broken his silence on his wife’s alleged assault of a Johannesburg model by lamenting the behaviour of young people. The South African government granted Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity following the alleged attack and allowed her[…]
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula is embroiled in a war against rogue police spies who have threatened his life, as well as the lives of his family. City Press is in possession of a report of a registered undercover operation called Project Wonder, which involves rogue agents and officers from the[…]
President Jacob Zuma has lauded efforts by counterpart Filipe Jacinto Nyusi to engage the leadership of the Renamo opposition movement to curb the resurgence of political violence in the restive southern African state. The former guerrilla movement has launched a series of attacks in some northern and central parts of[…]
The two Cape Town paramedics who got caught in an attack on their police escort in Gugulethu this week, previously had guns pointed at them, an EMS spokesperson said on Friday. “They are not military trained, they are not security personnel, they are just medical health professionals,” Emergency Medical Services[…]
Ashleigh Furlong, GroundUp Three years after the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry completed its work, the Western Cape Government says “steady progress” is being made in the implementation of its recommendations, but the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) is less optimistic. The Office of Premier Helen Zille said in a statement this[…]
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