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South African activists from Gaza-bound flotilla deported by Israel arrive in Jordan
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 07, 2025

The flotilla, comprising multiple vessels carrying hundreds of activists from 44 countries, was stopped about 70 nautical miles off the Gaza coast, wh...

MSF mourns fifteenth colleague killed in Gaza
Mary Wambui  |  Oct 07, 2025

MSF said the attack was carried out by Israeli forces in Gaza, who struck a street where its teams were waiting to take a bus to an MSF field hospital...

Gaza ceasefire talks advance as Hamas accepts key terms
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 04, 2025

In its statement, Hamas said it had carried out detailed consultations with its leadership, Palestinian factions, and mediators.

Gaza health system overwhelmed as WHO reports 42,000 people have life-changing injuries
UN News  |  Oct 03, 2025

WHO stressed the urgent need for fuel, medical supplies, prosthetics, and assistive devices, alongside protection for health workers. Medical evacuati...

MSF suspends medical services amid intensified Israeli offensive in Gaza City
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 27, 2025

Hospitals across the Gaza Strip are partially functional and overwhelmed, grappling with critical shortages of staff, supplies, and fuel. Patients who...

South African activists join global flotilla to Gaza, condemn Israeli actions
XINHUA  |  Sep 27, 2025

Among those on board are some South African citizens, including Mandla Mandela, grandson of the late former president Nelson Mandela, who has long bee...

Gaza: Four more hospitals shut amid ongoing Israeli offensive
UN News  |  Sep 27, 2025

According to the UN health agency, all but one of the dozen reported attacks on healthcare between September 7 and September  17 have been in Gaza Cit...

Middle East: Spain, Italy send navy ships to Gaza flotilla
DW News  |  Sep 26, 2025

Spain is joining Italy in sending a navy ship to help an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, after activists said they were targeted by Israeli drones. Israe...

Gaza City suffering escalates as Israeli strikes inflict more heavy casualties
UN News  |  Sep 26, 2025

Among many reported attacks in the last week, on 19 September, a four-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl were killed and others injured when their...

Palestinian recognition gains diplomatic momentum at UN General Assembly
Mwangi Maina  |  Sep 23, 2025

The recognition drive gained further traction on Monday when France and Saudi Arabia co-hosted a peace conference in New York, where ten more nations...

Human rights activists demand Kenya take action against Gaza genocide as thousands rally in support of Palestine in Nairobi
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 21, 2025

Thousands of Muslims rallied at Nairobi’s Uhuru Park on Sunday, in solidarity with Palestinians and raising funds for the Gaza Medical Fund.

Which countries recognize Palestinian statehood?
DW News  |  Sep 20, 2025

Despite widespread international recognition of Palestine as a state, some Western nations say they will only endorse Palestinian statehood as part of...

Israel reportedly in talks with South Sudan to displace Palestinians from Gaza
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Aug 13, 2025

According to Joe Szlavik, Juba wants Washington to lift its travel ban on South Sudan and remove sanctions against some of its political elites, a sig...

Trump’s Afrikaners are South African opportunists, not refugees: What’s behind the US move
The Conversation  |  May 28, 2025

The evidence suggests that the heads of household among the Afrikaner 49 are drawn not only from that minority of Afrikaners who are totally unreconci...

Israeli army has killed more journalists than any other military force in a single year
Gelle Dheere  |  Dec 27, 2024

On December 26, five journalists from Al-Quds Today TV were killed when an Israeli airstrike struck their broadcasting van while they were covering ev...

The moral bankruptcy of the West
John Mearsheimer  |  Dec 27, 2024

Almost all of the many human rights advocates in those countries, and the West more generally, have stayed silent while Israel executed its genocide.

Pope Francis suggests international study into possible genocide in Gaza
Reuters  |  Nov 17, 2024

Francis has not previously described the situation in Gaza as a genocide in public. But last year he was at the centre of a messy dispute after a meet...

Mexico requests to join Gaza genocide case against Israel at World Court
Amina Wako  |  May 28, 2024

Israeli attacks have devastated the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attack.

Gaza war: Egypt to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel at ICJ
Hanifa Adan  |  May 12, 2024

Egypt's Foreign Affairs ministry attributed the decision to the escalating severity and scope of Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians in the Gaza...

South Africa seeks more protection for Palestinians in Gaza
Mary Wambui  |  May 11, 2024

In its latest act of aggression against the people of Gaza, Israel seized that side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, forcing tens of thousands...

Death and ruins at Gaza's shattered Al-Shifa hospital after two-week battle
AFP  |  Apr 02, 2024

Further raising regional tensions during the Gaza war, Israeli air strikes destroyed an Iranian embassy consular annex in Syria, Damascus and Tehran s...

Situation in southern Gaza is ‘horrific and apocalpytic’: WFP
United Nations  |  Jun 01, 2024

The UN agency has been unable to access its main warehouse in the south because it was in an evacuation zone, and the 2,700 tonnes of food inside were...

South African Foreign Minister accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza
Amina Wako  |  Mar 22, 2024

Pandor's assertion reflects South Africa's position that Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide, drawing parallels to the atrocities of the Holoc...

Gaza war: Author and activist Arundhati Roy says 'never again'
Arundhati Roy  |  Mar 10, 2024

"The governments of the most powerful countries in the Western world have lost their dignity and any respect they might have had," she says.

Prospects dim for truce as Israel rejects calls to spare Rafah
Agency  |  Feb 18, 2024

A total of 127 people died in 24 hours, Hamas-run Gaza's health ministry said, as the main battlefront edged closer to far-southern Rafah, where 1.4 m...

Court orders Netherlands to stop supplying fighter jet parts to Israel
Foreign Correspondent  |  Feb 12, 2024

The US-owned F-35 parts are stored at a warehouse in the Netherlands and then shipped to several partners, including Israel, via existing export agree...

Gaza war: Palestinian group calls out UN special adviser Alice Nderitu for inaction
Foreign Correspondent  |  Feb 08, 2024

The organisations note the absence of meaningful action by Alice Wairimu Nderitu's office in response to sustained mass atrocities endured by Palestin...

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