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Some of the more interesting things that happened on this day.
Some of the more interesting things that happened on this day.
Australia plans to ban the public display of Nazi symbols as the country wrestles with an increasingly brazen fringe of right-wing extremists.
OPINION: It’s not good to let people live in fear from criminal elements of society, and yet they have an elected government in power, writes Dr Mustafa Mheta.
Islamic state has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed at least one person in Uganda's capital Kampala on Saturday night.
All the top positions in Afghanistan’s interim government were handed to key leaders from the Taliban and the Haqqani network - the most violent faction of the Taliban known for devastating attacks.
OPINION: While the withdrawal of foreign forces from African soil will be celebrated on the one hand, the lack of local capacity to stem the rapidly growing insurgencies in the Sahel is a real concern, writes Shannon Ebrahim.
An Islamic State-inspired attacker injured six people in a New Zealand supermarket knife rampage before being shot dead by undercover police officers who had him under round-the-clock surveillance.
SADC employs anti-terror force to Mozambicans after the country was devastated by terrorist attacks in the Cabo Delgado province earlier this year.
South Africa deployed soldiers to Mozambique earlier this year, on a mission to rescue its nationals after attacks by Islamic State-linked insurgents in the coastal town of Palma in the northern Cabo Delgado province.
OPINION: Southern Africa must show the world that it can resolve what is an African problem in Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique, and the SADC must take the lead, writes Shannon Ebrahim.
United Nations teams have received ’worrying’ reports that Tanzania has rejected over 1 000 people seeking refuge from an Islamic State-claimed attack on Palma, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said.
Around 90% of those arriving in Pemba are taken in by relatives, while others cram into schools, hotels, makeshift tented camps and a sports stadium.
The Ministry of Defence said 50 South Africans who were trapped in Mozambique have been accounted for.
’’We remain involved with securing the safety of our people in Palma. The SANDF is working very hard to bring South African citizens back home,’’ said President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The area around the Total project was being patrolled day and night to repel any threat, Radio Mozambique reported.
The African Union has called for urgent and coordinated international action after a jihadist attack that killed dozens and uprooted thousands on the northern Mozambican coastal town of Palma.
More than 5 000 people have reached safety outside the northern Mozambican town of Palma a week after it was besieged by jihadists, the UN said, as thousands remained stranded.
IOL Travel spoke to a few South Africa travel experts to find out which destinations in Mozambique are safe for travel.
Six more South African nationals were successfully evacuated and the body of a man killed in deadly terrorist attacks in Mozambique last week has been repatriated.
At least 19 civilians died after French fighter jets dropped bombs on a January gathering in central Mali, according to a new investigation from the United Nations.
Hundreds of shaken survivors from Palma have streamed into the neighbouring town of Mueda and provincial capital Pemba, but thousands more are believed to be wandering around, seeking refuge.
SA business interests in Mozambique are under threat after the outbreak of violence and a siege of the strife-torn town of Palma, where at least seven people have been killed.
The South African High Commission in Maputo said as many as 43 South Africans were affected by the recent Islamist attacks on Palma, the town at the centre of a gas hub in Cabo Delgado province.
Acting envoy to the global coalition to defeat ISIS, John Godfrey, told reporters the attack on Palma was in line with what has been seen from Islamic State in Mozambique and said the US government is closely monitoring events.