The South African Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it has written to the governments of Malawi, Ethiopia, and Nigeria to request reimbursement for the $18 million cost of repatriating thousands of illegal migrants.
South Africa’s Border Management Authority has documented over 50,000 migrants leaving the country in the past year, the new agency Ground Up reported on Wednesday.
South Africa deployed thousands of police officers and soldiers across the country as huge anti-migrant protests broke out on Tuesday — the date set by vigilante groups as a deadline for all illegal immigrants to leave the country, or face dire consequences.
Migrants awaiting processing for deportation at a community hall in the eastern South African city of Durban staged a protest on Wednesday and wound up in pitched battle with police, who used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse the crowd.
The Malawi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday it will begin repatriating its citizens from South Africa due to a wave of anti-immigrant violence.
Police arrested two Chinese nationals on Sunday while trespassing on the grounds of the Kangankunde Rare Earths Project in Malawi.
A plane carrying the vice president of Malawi, a southeast African country, and nine other people is reportedly missing.
Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of Karonga Diocese in Malawi says that he will “reject” and ignore the Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration of the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) permitting the blessing of same-sex couples.
A migrant woman who had been declared “mum of the year” by a magazine in 2022 has admitted to assaulting a Ukrainian woman.
A renowned charitable organization called the Ethiopian World Federation (EWF) is asking the government of Malawi to investigate another charity, Raising Malawi, for human trafficking, sexual exploitation, fraud, and exposing children to “homosexual and transgender” propaganda. Raising Malawi was founded by 80s pop star Madonna Louise Ciccone, better known as simply Madonna.
A statue of an African revolutionary is to go on display in London, and followed up by a “trans” monument styled after Aztec skull rack.
The government of Malawi charged Lu Ke, a 26-year-old Chinese national, with human trafficking on Monday. Lu became globally infamous last month for producing and selling videos of African children unwittingly singing racist songs in Chinese.
The Communist Party of China dismissed a bombshell BBC report revealing a lucrative industry in which Chinese citizens sell demeaning videos of African children online in a statement on Thursday, calling the most incendiary of these videos an “isolated case by a fool.”
Mozambican state health authorities declared a “public health emergency” on Wednesday in an effort to contain a case of wild poliovirus confirmed in a child in the nation’s western Tete province days earlier, the state-run Mozambique News Agency (AIM) reported on Thursday.
More African leaders on Monday joined South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera in condemning travel bans against their nations – imposed hurriedly by U.S. President Joe Biden and other Western and Asian governments after the discovery of the Omicron coronavirus variant – as unreasonable actions driven by virus panic and racist animosity towards Africans.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres condemned travel bans rapidly imposed in the past week on southern African countries in response to the discovery of a new Chinese coronavirus variant, stating on Monday that he was “deeply concerned” about policies such as that enacted by President Joe Biden.
Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera on Sunday denounced bans on Africa travel imposed by the Biden administration and several other governments, in response to the Omicron coronavirus variant, as “Afrophobia.”
JERUSALEM — The Israeli Health Ministry says it has detected the country’s first case of a new coronavirus variant in a traveler who returned from Malawi.
Malawi’s government on Wednesday burned 19,610 expired doses of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic has allowed dozens of countries around the world to expand the power of their central governments, presumably to protect populations and facilitate processes like mass vaccinations.
Malawi’s government has fired its labor minister and ordered police to arrest several other government officials for misusing Chinese coronavirus funds, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera announced Sunday.
Malawi announced Saturday that it would open an embassy in Jerusalem, making it the third country to do so over the weekend.
Cameroon’s health ministry revealed this weekend that hundreds of hospital patients have fled medical facilities in the country fearing they may contract coronavirus while undergoing treatment for other ailments.
Police are scrambling to track down hundreds of people who fled coronavirus quarantine centers in recent days in Zimbabwe and Malawi, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Thursday.
A minority party politician in Malawi reignited the debate regarding the use of the death penalty in the African country, Malawi’s Nyasa Times reported Tuesday, calling for the execution of killers targeting albino people to sell their body parts on the black market.
The archbishop of Blantyre, Malawi, has blamed the country’s government for failing to stop a wave of ritual killings of people with albinism, generated by belief in the healing power of the bones of albinos.
The killing of a 54-year-old albino man in Malawi on New Year’s Eve have triggered concerns of a resurgence of murders, rapes, and mutilations against people with albinism in the country and greater region, where witch doctors claim potions made out of albino body parts can bring good luck.
An angry mob killed a man in Munaje, Malawi this week after he was implicated in the death of another individual by practicing “witchcraft,” local media reported.
Activists in Malawian capital of Blantyre are protesting a planned statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi because of “racist slurs” he made when he was a young man.
First Lady Melania Trump embarked on a solo trip to Africa this week to celebrate and bring attention to those working with America in fostering the well being of children on the other side of the world.
First Lady Melania Trump is letting loose on her tour around Africa, rocking playful silhouettes to match her joyous attitude as she had fun with schoolchildren in Malawi on Thursday.
First Lady Melania Trump departed Washington, D.C. for Africa — her first international solo trip — rocking a festive pair of leopard print Manolo Blahnik stilettos.
First Lady Melania Trump leaves Monday to visit Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, and Egypt highlighting programs successfully teaching children life well-being skills as part of her BE BEST campaign.
A judge in South Africa sentenced a man to four life sentences in prison on Tuesday for the murder of his nieces and nephews – whose ears, the court found, he planned to sell at a high price to a witch doctor for use in potions.
Israel took nine visiting UN ambassadors on a tour of the City of David archaeological park in Jerusalem on Sunday in a bid to highlight the Jewish heritage of the holy city following a spate of UN resolutions denying that historic link.
US pop superstar Madonna appeared in person at a court in the Malawian capital Lilongwe on Wednesday to apply to adopt two more local children, a court spokesman told AFP.
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Madonna’s charity fundraiser turned political in Miami, Florida, Friday night after she ripped President-elect Donald Trump from the stage.
A Texas man was sentenced in federal court to spend 25 years in prison after he was convicted of engaging in “illicit sexual contact in a foreign place.” The man was reported to have had sexual contact with at least eight minors who were orphans in an orphanage he managed in Malawi.
The pervasive myth that having sex with a person with albinism — a condition in which the body does not produce any melanin — can cures AIDS has made rape and sexual assault of women and girls with albinism a commonplace threat in places like Malawi.
