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Boko Haram attacks intensify

Last week we reported about how Boko Haram were still creating terror in Nigeria and it hasn't stopped. On Sunday it was reported that another 44 were killed in Jos and today at least 20 people were killed in another bombing took place in Zaria, Nigeria. Why the increase in…

6 Jul 2015 11PM 9 min

10 years since 7/7 attack

Ten years after a summer’s day in London became shorthand for terror, survivors and relatives of victims of the 7/7 bombings will gather in the capital today to remember the 52 innocent lives lost and hundreds more physically and mentally scarred. But how has this event changed how Muslims are viewed, especially…

6 Jul 2015 11PM 7 min

R2K & MSC call for dismissal of implicated police in Marikana massacre

The Right2Know Campaign in conjunction with the Marikana Support Campaign are calling for the dismissal of implicated police in the Marikana massacre. Since President Jacob Zuma's report on the unfortunate event, was released last week, we are still to see whether key political figures will ever face prosecution for involvement…

6 Jul 2015 10PM 8 min

Greece debt crisis: Finance Minister resigns

Greece's outspoken finance minister has resigned, hours after voters backed his call to reject creditors' demands for more austerity in a referendum. Yanis Varoufakis said it was felt his departure would be helpful in finding a solution to the country's debt crisis. Online from Athens is…

6 Jul 2015 5AM 8 min

Al Azhar delegates to answer

Al Azhar delegates arrive in SA today and we have an update on their schedule. The theme is caravan of peace. Online to discuss is…

6 Jul 2015 4AM 5 min

Boko Haram

In light of another attack by terror group Boko Haram in which 44 people were killed today, we now recap on what happened in the area last week. This is the interview with James Schneider…

5 Jul 2015 10PM 7 min

Boko Haram is at it again

Boko Haram gunmen have killed more than 140 people in three separate attacks on mosques and villages in Nigeria's northeast Borno State. Several mosques were attacked in the town of Kukawa on Wednesday night, with at least 97 men, women and children among the victims. Two other villages were also…

2 Jul 2015 10PM 7 min

Bahrain tightens security amid ISIS threats

Bahrain is beefing up security measures around the country's mosques over threats made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. The measures were taken after a suicide attack on a mosque in neighbouring Kuwait last week, in which an ISIL member killed 27 people.

2 Jul 2015 10PM 6 min

How Mbalula kept LOC members mum on Fifa bribe

In recent weeks, we've seen a decline in interest in the whole Fifa scandal but today, new reports have emerged that show how Sport Minister, Fikile Mbalula tried to keep details of the Fifa scandal from the public by telling former World Cup local organising committee (LOC) members not to…

2 Jul 2015 10PM 7 min

IJR Public Seminar

The Institute for Justice & Reconciliation (IJR) held a public seminar today to discuss SA, ICC and international justice following the Al Bashir saga. One of the speakers joins us now online…

1 Jul 2015 11PM 7 min

Obama announces re-establishment of U.S.-Cuba diplomatic ties

President Barack Obama said yesterday that it was past time for the U.S. to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba as he announced that the two countries were reopening their embassies after more than 50 years. However, it wasn't easy getting to this point. It took months of complex negotiations, diplomatic…

1 Jul 2015 10PM 8 min

100+ dead in Egypt deadly attacks

Egypt's army has said more than 100 fighters and 17 soldiers were killed after simultaneous assaults on military checkpoints in North Sinai, in the deadliest fighting in years in the peninsula. A group pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, the Province of Sinai,…

1 Jul 2015 10PM 8 min

SA activists arrive back from Freedom Flotilla

The two South Africans, part of the recently-intercepted Freedom Flotilla that attempted to break an 8-year Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip, have returned to South Africa via OR Tambo Airport at 9:50 this morning. Dr. Clint Le Bruyns was on-board a standby vessel, while Ismail Moola provided logistical support…

30 Jun 2015 10PM 9 min

Iran Talks

Yet again, the negotiators at the Iran nuclear talks have given themselves another deadline to conclude an agreement, but this one is different. Previous target dates have been self-imposed. The new one, July 7, has been forced on the diplomats by external actors hostile to an agreement. Online is Arash Azizi who…

30 Jun 2015 10PM 12 min

Bassiouni case update

The case of Sh Bassiouni is still dragging on as we see no progress in getting the scholar of out Egypt. VOC journalist, Raéesah Isaacs spoke to his son, Bilal Bassiouni for an update…

30 Jun 2015 10PM 5 min

Freedom Flotilla Update

Most of the activists who were aboard the Marianne ship are still detained in Givon prison in Ramla, Israel, after the ship was intercepted by Israeli naval forces early yesterday morning. But it seems that this has not deterred the Freedom Flotilla Coalition from continuing its mission. VOC News editor…

29 Jun 2015 10PM 11 min

Lesotho on brink again

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has been urgently sent to Lesotho to consult with Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili following fears of more political instability in the country. The decision to deploy him was taken after three opposition party leaders fled the country and the killing of former Lesotho Defence Force commander Brigadier Maarparankoe…

29 Jun 2015 10PM 12 min

Beyond Jihad & Traditionalism: Afghanistan's New Generation of Islamic Activists

Not all Afghan youth who are politically active and who want to change the status quo fit into the often simplified categories of being either progressive and educated, or uneducated and subversive. Afghanistan-based researcher Borhan Osman wrote about this in his latest piece that explores the new generation of Islamic…

29 Jun 2015 4AM 19 min

Freedom Flotilla intercepted

It’s been the main talking point all day …one of the ships in the Freedom Flotilla 3 intercepted by Israel forces early this morning. At 02:06AM today, the “Marianne” contacted the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and reported that three boats of the Israeli navy had surrounded her in international waters,…

28 Jun 2015 10PM 7 min

A Year With Ebola: The Grievous Experience of Health Care Workers in Sierra Leo

Though the furore has died down, the Ebola outbreak is not over. The latest World Health Organization situation report found 20 cases last week compared with 24 cases the week before. Liberia was declared free of the disease on May 9, but cases in Guinea and Sierra Leone have continued…

28 Jun 2015 10PM 9 min