JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has revoked its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, citing in a letter submitted to the United Nations a recent court ruling that declared the withdrawal “unconstitutional and invalid.”…
While the Nigerian government criticizes South Africa’s handling of recent xenophobic attacks on Nigerians, the South African Government has deported 97 Nigerians for committing various offenses in the country. The property of several Nigerians and…
Newly elected chancellor of the University of South Africa (Unisa), Thabo Mbeki, has expressed concern over violent attacks targeted at African migrants in the country. The former president, who was inaugurated on Monday, said he…
A South African court has ruled the government’s plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was “unconstitutional and invalid”, providing a boost to the embattled Hague-based institution. The court has recently been fighting…
Pretoria: Violence erupts at anti-migrant protest Police fire tear gas and rubber bullets to break up local protesters who blame foreigners for unemployment and crime. South African police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun…
ABUJA — Nigerian protesters vandalized the head office of South African mobile phone giant MTN in Abuja on Thursday in apparent retaliation for anti-Nigerian violence in South Africa, a witness and an MTN spokesman said….
Xenophobic violence has returned to South Africa, with recent attacks on foreign-owned shops in the capital, Pretoria. But as VOA’s Anita Powell learned when she visited the destroyed businesses, the roots of this anger are…
Members of Nigeria’s community in South Africa have raised concerns over renewed anti-immigrant violence, appealing to authorities to intervene before the situation gets out of control. Nigeria’s presidency on Monday called the South African government…
At least 15 houses either belonging or rented by immigrants, especially Nigerians, have been burnt by angry residents in Rosettenvile, south of Johannesburg. The residents are reported to be angry that foreign nationals had turned…
The White House says U.S. President Donald Trump will speak to the presidents of Nigeria and South Africa by phone today, Monday, February 13, 2017. Trump’s scheduled talk with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is especially…