A German newspaper has reported that the sum would bring Germany’s contribution to the agency to 1.5 billion euros. The paper added that Chancellor Merkel would announce the additional funding at a London conference. The UNHCR provides assistance to refugees across the globe. Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she expects[…]
Refugees sent back to Sudan say they are being pursued by authorities there, and hope to flee again. In 2013, Nour Issa and Ahmed Hakim, both in their 20s, fled Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region to Khartoum, and then flew to Jordan. But last December, hundreds of Sudanese refugees, including Issa[…]
A number of Palestinian dwellings were demolished in the Masafer Yatta area of southern Hebron on Tuesday morning, locals told Ma’an. Ratib al-Jubour, a spokesperson for a local popular committee, said that “large numbers of Israeli occupation soldiers deployed in Masafer Yatta before bulldozers demolished a number of houses in[…]
A Saudi court overturned the death sentence for Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh on Tuesday, his lawyer announced in a statement the same day. Fayadh was sentenced to the death penalty in November for “apostasy” and allegedly emitting “blasphemous statements” in some of his poetry. The poet’s sentence has been changed[…]
Israeli naval forces on Wednesday detained four Palestinian fishermen off the Gazan coast and seized their boats, locals said. The detainees were identified as Muhammad al-Saiedi, Mahmoud Saiedi al-Saiedi, Marwan al-Saiedi, and Jihad Kaskin. Israeli forces regularly detain Palestinian fisherman off the coast of Gaza, often claiming they went beyond[…]
An assault by what appears to be a teacher on pupils at a school with a Christian ethos, in Springs, east of Johannesburg, has been captured on video. Watch. In the first of two videos, a man presumed to be a teacher smacks one of the pupils. In the second[…]
A DA mayor in the Western Cape has been accused of domestic violence after he allegedly assaulted his wife during an argument. Police spokesman Captain Malcolm Pojie confirmed that a domestic violence case had been opened at a local police station on Monday night following an altercation at the complainant’s[…]
More than six years into the Nkandla scandal, President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday proposed a settlement in the Constitutional Court case brought by the opposition that would see him reimburse the state for improvements to his rural home. The Presidency said Zuma proposed in a letter sent to the registrar[…]
The residents of Elsies River have expressed relief following the sentencing of the fourth suspect in the Valencia Farmer murder case. Farmer was brutally gang raped and murdered in Eerste Rivier in 1999. Elmario Maasdorp was the fourth suspect linked to the case. He has been sentenced to 23 years in[…]
With Gaza experiencing heavy storms, the Al Quds Foundation recently launched the Gaza Emergency Flood Relief project which will assist Palestinians living in the congested coastal strip. The inclement weather has resulted in power cuts and major floods which have left many homeless and destroyed roads and agricultural farms. The project[…]
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