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.
The transitional federal government president Sharif Sheik Ahmed has held press conference in Mogadishu on Friday and said that he was very sorry for the misunderstanding between the TFG, Puntland and Ahlu Sunna.
Farmers in De Doorns have rejected allegations that they are paying Zimbabwean immigrants lower than the minimum wage and are therefore responsible for the xenophobic attacks that erupted in the region this week.
Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Malusi Gigaba, has reiterated that government will not tolerate any form of violent attack on people from other countries.
In response to reports that Kenya is recruiting youth to go and fight Somalia war, a Muslim clergy has cautioned Muslim youth not to allow themselves to be drawn by financial incentives and accept to undertake mercenary work outside the country.
Five heads of state, ministers and delegates from across the African continent met in Kampala last week for a special summit to deal with forced displacement in Africa.
At least 150,000 people, residents of Kasese District who had crossed to the Democratic Republic of Congo but were evicted, have started feeling the pinch of expulsion, Daily Monitor has learnt.
Breede Municipality mayor Charles Ntsomi wants displaced Zimbabweans to be reintegrated into the volatile De Doorns community within the next week.
The United Nations Human Rights Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has denied running a repatriation programme that promised Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa R7000, computers and other equipment to start up businesses once back home. Last month it was reported the refugees signed up for the programme on the back of these promises but once back home nothing was delivered.
The number of Zimbabweans displaced after some of their shacks in an informal settlement outside De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, were attacked and demolished by local South African residents, has risen to about 3,000, said the South African Red Cross Society.
Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Si'ad known as (Inda'adde), the minister of state of the transitional government for the defense ministry has held press conference through the telephone in Kampala on Thursday and apologized the Islamic clerics of Ahlu sunna Waljama'a for the TFG president's statement on the clerics recently.
At least 5 people have been wounded in Galka'o town overnight after big blast convulsed in north of the town in Mudug region, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Escalating violence in the Somali town of Galkayo, Mudug region, is creating a climate of fear, which in turn has adversely affected livelihoods, residents say.
At least two government soldiers have been killed and more than five others have been wounded in a fire exchange between the transitional government troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
The president of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland Mr. Abdirahman Mohamed Farole has Thursday said that he was very sorry for the misunderstand between him and TFG president Sharif Sheik Ahmed in their last meeting in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
HERE we go again. Just weeks after the last Western Cape refugee camp was closed and the few remaining victims of last year's xenophobic attacks were either repatriated or reintegrated into the communities they had fled from in fear for their lives, foreigners have again been driven violently from their humble homes at De Doorns, an informal settlement near Worcester.
Hundreds of Congolese women in Gulu district have asked the Government to repatriate them home.
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