By Kenichi Serino and Stella Mapenzauswa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – When he heard angry screams and the hammering of hatchets on the door of his shack last week, Malawian Folias Sakai thought he was about to become the eighth person to be killed in anti-immigrant attacks that have swept South Africa this month. Instead Sakai managed
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By Mike Cohen, Bloomberg South Africa is facing a backlash from African nations that aided the fight against apartheid after mobs repeatedly attacked foreigners and looted their stores. At least five people have died in clashes in the eastern port city of Durban, Johannesburg and other towns since last week, while thousands have fled their
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Thousands of migrants have already tried to cross the Mediterranean in rickety boats this year Hundreds of people are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian coastguard says. A major rescue operation is under way after the vessel carrying “between 500 and 700
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Thousands of migrants have already tried to cross the Mediterranean in rickety boats this year Hundreds of people are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian coastguard says. A major rescue operation is under way after the vessel carrying “between 500 and 700
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By Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY Photo: AP A video purporting to show the killing of Ethiopian Christians by Islamic State-affiliated militants in Libya has been released online. The 29-minute video appears to show militants holding two groups of captives, one by an affiliate in eastern Libya known as Barka Province and the other by the
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By Anita Powell,VOA JOHANNESBURG — After a protracted silence, South African President Jacob Zuma publicly has condemned a rise in attacks on foreign nationals in two major cities. But critics point out that the leadership in the Rainbow Nation — including Zuma himself — has been less than welcoming to foreign residents, and that a
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AP ROME – Survivors of a capsized migrant boat off Libya have told the aid group Save the Children that an estimated 400 people are believed to have drowned. Even before the survivors were interviewed, Italy’s Coast Guard said it assumed that there were many dead given the size of the ship and that nine
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By Tom Porter There have been violent clashes in the South African city of Durban, after a crowd of hundreds of locals tried to attack shops and businesses owned by immigrants on 14 April 2015. Immigrant shop owners in the coastal city fought off a crowd of looters, who then started stoning cars and shops,
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By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief Manama: A Saudi elementary school student has shot dead an Ethiopian man reportedly while trying to protect his older brother. The death report triggered a heated debate on social networks and netizens were sharply divided over how the authorities should act with the child, believed to be less than 12
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By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief Manama: A Saudi elementary school student has shot dead an Ethiopian man reportedly while trying to protect his older brother. The death report triggered a heated debate on social networks and netizens were sharply divided over how the authorities should act with the child, believed to be less than 12
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