Why Refugees In Cape Town Want To Leave South Africa
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The video of a baby being ripped from the mother’s arms by police officers in Cape Town horrified and disturbed most people...
Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire Gives A Nuanced View Into The State’s...
The current political climate is such that anti-immigration and Islamophobic right-wing policies are fast gaining traction. From this climate emerges Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire,...
Five practical ways you can help the people of Yemen
For more than 22 months, a coalition of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia have been pounding Yemen, the Middle East's poorest country, with...
7 non-fiction book releases to add to your TBR
As the year draws to a close, readers can usually expect the release of some really great non-fiction books. That’s definitely the situation with...
A Rohingya Family Shares Their Experiences Of Being Refugees
August 25 marked one year since 700 00 Rohingya Muslims were forced to flee from the extreme violence they were facing in Myanmar to...
Oxfam’s Admission of Sexual Abuse In Haiti Points To Deeply Entrenched...
The international NGO sector is a multibillion dollar industry and one vital to the survival, stabilisation and reconstruction of communities globally, but what happens...
What I Learned About Freedom At The Oslo Freedom Forum In...
The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is a platform for struggles that have been opaqued and ignored, a gathering for disruption in the name of...
30 things you need to know about the Palestine-Israel conflict
There is no shortage of debate around the semantics of the Palestine-Israel conflict. SELIN KARA, a British-born human rights activist, put together this useful...
Sub-Saharan migrants traded like merchandise in Libya
Black bodies are being traded at auctions in Libya, and the world has been slow to respond. It’s become such a part of Libyan...
“The Only Democratic Thing About The Congo Is In The Name”
President Joseph Kabila has overstayed his welcome in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Congolese have been protesting his brutal reign despite violent...
Asylum Seekers At The Durban Refugee Reception Centre Tell Of Their...
Almost everyday, Moore Road is packed with hundreds of refugees of different nationalities who desperately stand in long queues and some sit on pavements...
The bad news for Zimbabwe: military coups rarely end well
The ongoing situation in Zimbabwe might not technically be classified as a coup - at least according to the Zimbabwean army and other officials....
Young Asylum Seekers’ Struggle Is The Same As Ours, As SA...
As we youth celebrate our freedom on a day that commemorates the rising up of young people against injustice, one can't help but think...
Socio-Political Unrest In Anglophone Region of Cameroon
The colonisation of the Southern Cameroons, or the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, by La Republique du Cameroun, has been long and violent. PATRICK AGEJO...
MSF Field Worker Remembers The Rwandan Genocide: “The Hate That Came...
This year marks 24 years since the Rwandan genocide. More than a million people were killed during the 100 days of violence. The Rwandan...
From Libya to Israel, the African migrant faces a dire plight
From the shores of the continent to Europe and Israel, there is no group of people around the world who are more abused and...
The Difference Between “Migrant” and “Immigrant”
Growth in the number of international migrants has been strong over the last two decades. The International Migration 2020 report highlights 281 million people...
Israel Is An Apartheid State
In our second op-ed for Israeli Apartheid Week, ALIE KOMAPE takes a look at how Israel’s racism and apartheid tactics oppress and violate not...
ADF: Home Affairs’ Comments On Asylum Seekers Are Xenophobic
The African Diaspora Forum (ADF) read with shock and dismay the quotes attributed to the Home Affairs Director of asylum seeker management, Mandla Madumisa...
The Refugee Crisis In Lebanon: How You Can Help
The little country of Lebanon is sandwiched between Palestine and Syria. Both countries are plagued with turmoil. Since the Nakba in Palestine in 1948,...
