The Liberian Muslim Community is apparently embroiled in a scandal, with some Legislators allegedly linked, resulting into the deportation of Several Liberian Muslim members from the ongoing Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
A Zimbabwean national, forced to flee his home in Hout Bay's Imizamo Yethu informal settlement last weekend, says that without swift government intervention the situation will degenerate to violence.
Over 11 million people are displaced by conflict and climate change-related natural disasters in Africa every year according to Afrian Union convention on internally displaced persons.
THE massive repatriation of Sudanese refugees has left districts West Nile with unutilised land. The bushes have engulfed social facilities like schools and safe water sources, which local authorities have failed to put to proper use.
Even after the civil war that ended in 2005, hundreds of Sudanese are resettling in Arua District despite the return of peace in their motherland, the deputy resident district commissioner has said.
Abdalla Adam, an IDP (internally displaced person) leader from Alryad camp in El Geneina, West Darfur, says that he desperately wants to return to his village, Mestarei, from which he was forced to leave in 2003, but cannot because others have occupied his land.
About 4,000 residents of Muleba District in Kagera Region, have been rendered homeless as a result of heavy rain that was accompanied with strong winds.
At least one civilian has been killed and another one wounded in Derkenley district in south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it is ramping up efforts to feed tens of thousand of Congolese who fled a recent outbreak of tribal violence in north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The Islamic administration of Hizbul Islam in central Somalia has banned the business of Kat in Beledweyn town in Hiran region in central Somalia. Officials said on Wednesday.
The leader of Somalia's Hizbul Islam, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has condemned the on-going clashes between his group the militant group Al-Shabaab.
A donation comprising several foodstuff for the Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who have been assembled at Damba shelter centre, shall be transported this Tuesday to northern Uije province, ANGOP has learnt.
Suspected Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters have attacked Nzara region of Southern Sudan at least three times this month, forcing civilians to flee their homes, local officials said.
Abukar Abdi Osman, the minister of the development of livestock of Somali Transitional government held press conference in Mogadishu on Tuesday and warned Somali livestock businessmen to avoid anything that could disrupt to export.
Nearly two years ago the world witnessed horrific images of murder and arson on a horrendous scale. We saw pictures of grim-looking, matchete-wielding young men roaming the dusty streets of shanty towns of South Africa hunting for foreign-looking Africans to hack to death.
At least 11 people have been killed and 18 others injured in heavy fighting between Somali government forces and fighters loyal to insurgent Hizbul Islam group, Radio Garowe reports on Monday.
Ethiopian officials have reportedly crossed the border to neighbouring Somalia to hold secret talks with former administrators of Somalia's southern region of Bakool in the southwestern border village of Yeed, sources reported.
Both locals and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia's central town of Beletweyne are experiencing increased hardship with several changes in the town's administration, residents say.
The government on Sunday ordered Mau Forest squatters out of makeshift camps as it stepped up efforts to clear settlers out of the water catchment.
Imizamo Yethu's police station commissioner says that locals who tore down a Malawian man's shack after he was accused of raping a toddler were acting out of anger and were not motivated by xenophobia.
The title of the CD is actually a combination of two songs on the album, 'Obama', and 'Heaven Smiles', which is a reflection of the singer's great admiration for the US President, Barack Obama. Even the back cover of the CD is taken up by a portrait of the youthful president!
In 2006 when the government announced the beginning of camp phase-out in northern Uganda, majority of internally displaced persons had high hopes of living a better life in their original homes. That hope, however, faded as the former IDPs met many hurdles in their return process. Paul Amoru & Cissy Makumbi explore the challenges involved in resettlement of former internally displaced persons ...
The officials of Galmudug State administration have started enrolling the Internally Displaced People Somalis from southern Somalia in Galka'o town in Mudug region, official said on Sunday.
Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials.
The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South Africa.
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