By Anees Teladia Southern parts of Africa have experienced disastrous weather conditions recently. A cyclone known as Cyclone Idai has ravaged South African neighbouring countries like Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing high death tolls and even higher levels of displacement. Accordingly, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has decided to act[…]
Overnight rain has brought some relief to firefighters battling the blaze in the Overberg area in the Western Cape. An immediate evacuation order was issued for the Franskraal area on Friday, after three fires flared up once again. The fire reportedly jumped across the road and spread towards Mooiuitsig. The[…]
The Al-Imdaad Foundation has sought to increase its assistance and aid towards refugees entering Europe from Syria and other war-ravaged countries in the Middle East, amid one of the world’s biggest refugee crises since World War II. A record number of people, believed to exceed 500 000, have made the[…]
Hundreds of Palestinian refugees rallied on Sunday in front of the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City in protest of a cut of services provided to them by UNRWA. On June 15 UN Commissioner-General Pierre Krhenbhl announced that UNRWA’s fiscal deficit for 2015 has reached $101 million. Palestinian refugees in Gaza[…]
A ship carrying desperately needed relief supplies docked in Aden on Tuesday, the first UN vessel to reach the southern Yemeni city in four months of fighting, its governor said. “This is the first boat carrying the UN flag to dock in Aden since the war began” in late March,[…]
The fluctuating dynamics in Yemen are making relief efforts to the front-lines of the country’s civil war extremely difficult, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF SA). The organisation held a closed media briefing in Johannesburg recently, seeking to spread the word on a deteriorating humanitarian situation in the war-stricken gulf[…]
This holiday weekend has seen hundreds of people killed across the Middle East with bombings and continued fighting in Yemen and persistent violence in Iraq and Syria. On the first day of Eid in Syria, the Syrian army dropped barrel bombs in the northern Part of the country. Away from[…]
The first ship taking part in Freedom Flotilla III on Monday set sail from Gothenburg, Sweden, for a voyage of nearly 5,000 nautical miles to the blockaded Gaza Strip, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said. The trawler Marianne was jointly acquired by “Ship to Gaza Sweden” and “Ship to Gaza Norway”[…]
A Pietermaritzburg surgeon and veteran missionary sees his work in quake-struck Nepal as his obligation to the human race. Northdale orthopaedic surgeon Liven Meneses-Turino, part of a specialist medical team from Gift of the Givers, said it was a calling. “I have been a missionary from the time I was[…]
Humanitarian relief organisation Gift of the Givers (GOTG) say they have seen an outpouring of support from ordinary South Africans in responding to the plight of foreign nationals affected by the recent outbreak of xenophobia in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Since the start of xenophobia tensions two weeks ago, 8500 foreign nationals[…]
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