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ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula

Court orders Mbalula to take action against attacks on long-distance buses, pending appeal outcome

Transport minister must develop a plan to ensure the safety of drivers and passengers as violent attacks continue

insider said the SACP sought to have its chairperson, Blade Nzimande, remain a cabinet minister.

Timeline: State security-compromising attacks

Eskom, parliament, constitutional court, looting could all be linked. ‘We smell a rat’, says Blade Nzimande

A member of the Durban Metro Police looks at a looted retail store in central Durban, on July 11, 2021. – Several shops are damaged and cars burnt in Durban, following a night of violence. Police are on the scene trying to control further protests. It is unclear if this is linked to sporadic protests following the incarceration of former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by – / AFP)

All public transport in KZN stops as looting spreads

More than 120 people have already been arrested for looting and public violence in the province

School massacre: Eleven-year-old Victory Camibon, who had just started high school, was shot dead in an attack last month

Conflict in Cameroon: The schools caught in crossfire

A slew of recent attacks in the country means sending your child to school can be a life or death decision

A student responds to a teacher’s question in an overcrowded classroom at a public primary school in Kaya, Centre-Nord region, Burkina Faso. In January 2020, the school had 748 students, including 113 displaced students. “Each day, the displaced students come… we don’t refuse enrolment, but if there isn’t any space they can’t start,” the principal said. (© 2020 Lauren Seibert/Human Rights Watch)

Armed militants wage war on Burkina Faso’s schools

A survivor tells of how Islamists carrying AK-47s arrived on motorbikes, forced fleeing children to lie on the ground and beat teachers before setting a building on fire

Mail & Gaurdian

Juju’s words can hurt

Malema understands well the power of language

An Israeli military spokeswoman declined to comment on the deal, but there appeared to have been no rocket fire or Israeli strikes in the hours after it was due to take effect. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

Palestinians say truce reached with Israel to end deadly escalation

Israel also lifted restrictions on civilian movements in communities around the Gaza border on Monday morning

Ongoing suspicion of the polio vaccine in Pakistan has been compounded recently by anti-vaccination videos circulating on social media. (Reuters)

Pakistan polio vaccine teams on edge after fatal attacks

Multiple polio vaccination workers in Pakistan have been killed in attacks targeting health workers in the country’s northwest earlier this week

Macomia district in the province of Cabo Delgado, which is expected to become the centre of a gas industry, has seen a string of assaults on security forces and civilians, but no one has claimed responsibility. (Emidio Josine/AFP)

The faceless insurgency in Mozambique that no one can explain

‘I have never come across something like this before’

Gauteng premier David Makhura. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Double standards: Why is there no #Somalia?

Unlike other tragedies such as Las Vegas and Manchester, there has been no outpouring on social media for the deadly blast in Somalia.

Guess who’s back: Bathabile Dlamini is back in public office. She’s the new chairperson of the Social Housing Regulatory Authority interim board. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Two dead in jihadist attack on tourist resort in Bamako

About 20 hostages freed by special forces

In the Nile Delta two churches were attacked by suicide bombers.

State of emergency in Egypt after IS church bombings kill 44

Two Coptic churches were attacked on Palm Sunday.

Crowd lynches and burns two Hutu women ‘militants’ in east of DR Congo

Interethnic tensions in the region surge in the wake of massacres that have killed hundreds of civilians

Solidarity: The Eiffel Tower in Paris is lit up in the black

‘It is all of Europe that is hit’

Belgium’s neighbours have rallied in support after this week’s ‘acts of war’ that shook Brussels.

Bombers’ links to Paris shootings raise intel questions

One of the el-Bakraoui brothers is believed to have provided ammunition and weapons for the Paris attacks.

Attacked: Zainub Priya Dala.

Writers rally around the author who dared to admire Rushdie

"She would not have avoided a conversation. But debate, conversation and engagement are not possible in the face of violence."

The PAD website.

South African pastor killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing

A South African pastor and his two teenage children are the latest casualties of a spate of attacks by the Taliban across Afghanistan.

Kabul

South Africans killed in attack on Kabul compound

The South African head of an organisation, his son and daughter, and one Afghan were killed in a Taliban attack on a compound for foreigners in Kabul.

If one accepts Israel’s right to statehood

Bomb ends innocent game

Journalists in Gaza City watched in horror as the Israelis killed what were clearly young boys.

As one military operation rolls into the next

Red line moves into dangerous moral ground

The ethical boundaries are constantly shifting for Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza.