Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Saturday expressed his “shock and disgust” at “horrible” xenophobic attacks in neighbouring South Africa in his first public reaction to the violence that has swept parts of Durban and Johannesburg. Addressing crowds gathered in the pouring rain in Harare for official celebrations of Zimbabwe’s 35th[…]
President Jacob Zuma has condemned a spate of attacks on foreigners, calling it “shocking and unacceptable”. Addressing the nation in Parliament on Thursday, he said no amount of frustration or anger could ever justify the attacks on foreign nationals and the looting of their shops. “We condemn the violence in[…]
More than 800 police officers have been deployed in and around Durban where xenophobic violence has left at least five people dead since the weekend. “If the threat requires more [police officers], we will respond. We still have the capacity to respond and we will respond as needed,” national police[…]
While an academic on Wednesday called on government to improve its communication in a bid to prevent further xenophobic attacks, the Arts and Culture Department announced a cultural programme to unify people. A statement from the Presidency on the matter ‘smacks of formalism’ and did little to change public discourse,[…]
A Pakistani court has freed on bail the alleged mastermind of a 2008 assault on India’s financial capital Mumbai that killed 166 people and seriously strained ties between the neighbouring countries. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was released late on Thursday, according to an official at Adiyala Prison in Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad.[…]
A third attacker in the deadly assault on the Bardo museum is on the run, Tunisia’s president said Sunday, declaring his country at war with the extremists who killed 21 people at one of North Africa’s most revered cultural institutions. President Beji Caid Essebsi said the attack involved “three aggressors”[…]
The death toll in twin attacks that targeted Kurds celebrating their New Year in north-eastern Syria late Friday has climbed to 45, a monitoring group said. The blasts occurred in the province of al-Hassakeh, which borders Turkey and Iraq. It initially left 33 dead and dozens wounded, according to the[…]
Radicals killed 173 people in Kenya in 2014, the highest number in the three years that Kenya has experienced violence blamed on neighboring Somalia’s al-Shabab radicals, Kenya’s police force said Wednesday. The 2014 death toll is even higher than that of 2013 when radicals killed 67 people in the assault[…]
Survivors have recalled how they escaped from Boko Haram fighters in the aftermath of last week’s devastating attacks on two Nigerian towns. The witnesses’ accounts came to light on Thursday after Amnesty International released satellite images showing what it says is “indisputable and shocking evidence” of the scale of the[…]
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have launched a series of attacks in Iraq’s restive region, killing at least 23 people, including several Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers. Sources told Al Jazeera that at least 16 Peshmerga soldiers were killed on Thursday trying to repel an ISIL[…]
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