Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has blamed Europe’s refugee crisis on Western support for “terrorists”, as people fleeing his country’s civil war stream towards the European Union. In his first public comments on the mass migration, broadcast on Wednesday, Assad said Europe could expect more refugees. Countries including the United States,[…]
The impact of war and poverty in the world is manifesting itself in the refugee crisis in Europe, President Jacob Zuma said. “The world has witnesses the horrific and deadly journeys by African and Middle Eastern immigrants across the Mediterranean in search of a better life in Europe,” Zuma said[…]
For people like Gabriela Andreevska, working with Europe-bound refugees crossing her country, Macedonia, feels like the film “Groundhog Day”. Every day, thousands arrive from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq ,Pakistan and elsewhere to Gevgelija, on the border with Greece. Most are completely unprepared for the journey. They know little about what they[…]
More than 182,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the British government does more to support refugees trying to seek asylum in the country, with the number of people registering their support continuing to rise rapidly. The parliamentary petition went viral on social media sites Facebook and Twitter on[…]
European Union ministers were summoned on Sunday to meet in two weeks’ time to seek urgent solutions to a migration crisis unprecedented in the bloc’s history, as the mounting death toll on land and sea forced governments to respond. Luxembourg, which holds the rotating EU presidency, called interior ministers from[…]
It is not true that the country’s state-owned enterprises are in crisis, ANC national executive committee member Lindiwe Sisulu said on Monday. She acknowledged that the “ones that are in your face, are those that are probably in difficulty right now”. However, this was not an accurate reflection of all[…]
Greece moved to check the growing strains on its crippled financial system on Sunday, closing its banks and imposing capital controls that brought the prospect of being forced out of the euro into plain sight. After bailout talks between the leftwing government and foreign lenders broke down at the weekend,[…]
Eskom is facing major opposition in its bid to attain a 24.78% electricity tariff increase, aimed at “covering vital costs”. The embattled power utility provider is currently involved in a series of public hearings before the National Energy Regulator of SA (nersa), seeking an additional 9.58% increase to an already[…]
The UN refugee agency has said that the record number of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people globally is “a reflection of a world in chaos”. On the eve of World Refugee Day, the UN released a new report showing that the number of people forcibly displaced at the[…]
The power crisis is something that South Africa would have to bear with for at least the next two years, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday. “That is going to be a problem that will stay with us for… two years. We can’t run away from that,” he said[…]
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