Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood says another of its members has been killed by security forces two weeks after the man went missing, the movement has told Al Jazeera. The group on Friday said Egyptian soldiers kidnapped two men, a businessman Tarek Khalil, who was in charge of the Brotherhood’s Development Committee,[…]
Bahrain is beefing up security measures around the country’s mosques over threats made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, the interior ministry said. The measures were taken after a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in neighbouring Kuwait last week, in which an ISIL member[…]
Visitors to vocfm.co.za have doubled since the launch of the new website last year. Today marks one year since VOC launched a fresh, user-friendly site to complement the station’s new frequency on 91.3fm. The website, designed by Endor Media and Events, gives the VOC community access to an unprecedented array[…]
Thousands of Palestinians attended a funeral for Muhammad al-Kasbah, 17, who was shot dead by Israeli forces Friday morning near the Qalandia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. The funeral march went from the Palestine Medical Center in Ramallah to al-Kasbah’s house in Qalandia refugee camp before his body was[…]
Thousands of displaced Syrians have been forced to live on hand-outs during Ramadan, as the country faces a severe food shortage. Many Syrians who were once self-sustainable and able to feed the poor have now become the impoverished. While a South African delegation of ulema travel to Syria this week[…]
EFF leader Julius Malema will be in Marikana on Friday to lay criminal charges against Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa for his alleged role in the violence and deaths during the strike at Lonmin’s mine in 2012. Despite the Farlam Commission of Inquiry clearing Ramaphosa of any responsibility for the deaths,[…]
Questions are being asked about the process followed and the validity of the appointment of Frans Matlala, the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s new chief executive officer. The SABC, which is also limping along with a gutted board, hasn’t had a CEO for a year and five months since Lulama Mokhobo[…]
The ebola virus, economic decline in some countries, and South Africa’s new immigration regulations are to blame for the drop in tourist arrivals to South Africa, Grant Thornton Advisory Services said on Monday. About 150 000 fewer tourists visited South Africa in the first quarter of the year compared to[…]
A portion of Table Mountain national park should be made available for boys undergoing traditional initiation as there is a shortage of suitable land in the Western Cape, the provincial ANC Youth League said on Thursday. “Table Mountain as a national heritage site is actually suitable as a delivery site[…]
Boko Haram fighters have gunned down at least 80 Muslims praying in mosques in a northeastern Nigerian town during the holy month of Ramadan, a member of a local vigilante group said. Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Abuja on Thursday, said the victims, mostly men, were killed in the[…]
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