JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s soccer federation (SAFA) says Madagascar pulled out of playing an international game on Saturday, amid xenophobic violence in Johannesburg and elsewhere in the country. A man stands by a bonfire…
GENEVA — The U.N. refugee agency is urging the South African authorities to get to grips with violence targeting foreigners before it gets completely out of control. UNHCR says it is alarmed by the xenophobic…
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…