Tag: violence
Cameroonians flee in the face of violence
Almost 8 000 Cameroon refugees fled to eastern and southern Nigeria over the past two weeks, the UN refugee agency said, as violence flared...
ISS: Insecurity in the Sahel won’t be solved at high-level summits
Terror attacks in the Sahel have increased five-fold since 2016. In addition to civilian casualties, attacks on military personnel in the Sahelian states, as...
Global violent deaths on the rise
The year 2017 saw the second highest annual rate of global violent deaths in the period 2004–17, according to new data from the Small...
Burkinabes flee escalating violence
The number of people forced to flee their homes in two regions of Burkina Faso besieged by ethnic and jihadist violence increased more than...
World losing ground against Sahel violence
West African and international powers are failing to tackle the spiralling threat of Islamist militancy in the Sahel region, which is spreading to the...
Ramaphosa condemns further public violence
President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned a resurgence of public violence that claimed two lives in Johannesburg on Sunday 08 September.
The President has also expressed...
DA calls for NATJOINTS to halt logistics sector attacks
The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) will be writing to the National Police Commissioner, General Khehla Sitole, to request that he activate the National Joint...
Thousands flee as violence erupts in Cameroon
Thousands fled a fresh flare-up of violence in Cameroon’s separatist English-speaking regions, a local security source and a government source said.
The army said...
Violence in South Sudan claims more than 100 lives
South Sudan’s army and several armed groups killed more than 100 civilians in a surge in violence in a southern region of the country...
More than 300 000 flee DR Congo violence
More than 300,000 people fled inter-ethnic violence in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since early June, complicating tracing and treatment of patients at risk...
Presidential pep talk on Armed Forces Day
President Cyril Ramaphosa had his Commander-in-Chief cap on when he addressed the country’s airmen, military medics, sailors and soldiers in Polokwane last Friday.
Sadly, he...
