Arrests made in Gauteng province following overnight street battles in downtown Johannesburg. Arrests have been made in South Africa as anti-immigrant violence spreads to parts of Johannesburg’s commercial heart. Police fired more rubber-coated steel bullets at a crowd of anti-immigrant protesters in downtown Johannesburg on Friday afternoon, as they tried to separate the protesters from
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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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Ethiopian Tescma Marcus had been in South Africa for only four months. He came here to join his older brother run a spaza shop in Umlazi township, Durban. On Friday night the 22-year-old became the latest victim of a spate of xenophobic attacks that has engulfed Durban. Marcus died at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in
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DURBAN – Two Ethiopian nationals have been burnt by an angry mob in the township of Umlazi in Durban. It’s reported the pair sustained third degree burns when their shop was petrol-bombed on Friday night. There has been a spate of xenophobic attacks in Umlazi over the past week which some believe were sparked by
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By Jonathan Pitts, Baltimore Sun Like tens of thousands Orthodox Christians in Baltimore and more than 350 million worldwide, Pastrikos’ congregants will mark the end of their 40-day Great Lent — and the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter — with religious observances that last from midnight Saturday through Sunday morning, culminating in a massive
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By The Washington Post Rapidly growing numbers of black immigrants have reshaped the overall black population in the United States in recent decades, particularly in Washington and other cities with large U.S.-born African -American communities, a new report says. A record 3.8 million foreign-born blacks now live in the United States, the Pew Research Center
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A 25-year-old Ethiopian maid has accused Dr Yonas Tegegn, the World Health Organisation’s representative in Thailand, and his wife, of abusing her and forcing her to work without pay for nearly two years. — PHOTO: THE NEW PAPER BANGKOK (AFP) – The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) top official in Thailand on Saturday denied beating his
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