All of Africa Today - May 22, 2026
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More Than 57,000 People Were Deported From South Africa Last Year
GroundUp
The Department of Home Affairs is clamping down on illegal immigration Read more »
They Ran From the Buses, Turns Out Most of Them Had Nothing to Hide
Scrolla
eThekwini Mayor Cyril Xaba confirmed that just one person was arrested after authorities checked nearly 460 foreign nationals at the Diakonia Centre in Durban. Home Affairs… Read more »
Legally in SA but Scared to Go Home - 150 Immigrants Camping At Durban Home Affairs
GroundUp
People driven from their neighbourhoods by anti-immigrant groups have spent five days moving between a police station, a church centre and Home Affairs Read more »
Sierra Leone Receives First Batch of U.S. Migrant Deportees
allAfrica
Sierra Leone has become the latest African nation to receive migrants deported from the United States as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. Read more »
Gambia Validates Migration Report, Vows to Tackle Root Causes Ahead of New York Forum
The Point
The Gambia on Wednesday validated its second national report on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, with government officials, civil society and the UN… Read more »
March and March Repeats South Africa's Familiar Anti-Migrant Script in Joburg
Our City News
The March and March Movement may be new to the streets of Gauteng, but its message is not. Read more »
Latin American Migrants Deported From U.S. Await Their Fate in DR Congo
RFI
The first group of Latin American migrants deported from the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo has arrived in Kinshasa, under a controversial US scheme to transfer… Read more »
Cape Town Approves Inner-City Housing Project - South African News Briefs - May 21, 2026
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JOINT STATEMENT: Equal Education Law Centre, Equal Education, Children's Institute, Section 27, Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia, and Lawyers for Human Rights Condemn the Recent Wave of Xenophobia [press release]
Equal Education
The Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), Equal Education (EE), Children’s Institute (CI), SECTION27, Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia (KAAX), and Lawyers for Human Rights… Read more »
Blaming Immigrants for Our Problems Is a Fool's Game [editorial]
GroundUp
Lives will not be improved by vigilante action, mass deportations and expressions of hatred Read more »
Sierra Leone to Take in Hundreds of West Africans Deported By U.S., Minister Says
RFI
Sierra Leone has agreed to take in hundreds of West African migrants who are being deported by the United States, its foreign minister has said - the latest deal as part of the… Read more »
Who Is Funding Anti-Migrant Protests in SA? - Zimbabwean International Relations Expert Urges Probe Into Organisers
New Zimbabwe
The South African government must investigate who is driving and funding ongoing protests targeting illegal foreign nationals, as well as the broader agenda behind the… Read more »
How Nigeria Should Respond to the South Africa Xenophobia [guest column]
allAfrica
The images coming out of South Africa are hard to ignore: Black immigrants, many of them Nigerians, harassed, displaced and, in some cases, violently driven from their communities.… Read more »
South Africans Are Not a Xenophobic People - Presidential Spokesperson
SAnews.gov.za
Presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya says President Cyril Ramaphosa expects law enforcement to take action against violent protesters, while emphasising that South Africans… Read more »
