"The Commission has noted the comments by King Zwelithini disassociating himself from the actions of people involved in the recent attacks and calls on him to address the public to confirm that these deplorable actions are not being undertaken in his name or by his direction. The Commission is investigating complaints regarding such alleged comments."
A major rescue operation has been launched off the coast of Italy where as many as 700 people are feared to have been on board a boat that has capsized this morning. It is believed that the 20–metre long boat overturned when the migrants moved to one side of the overcrowded in desperate bid to get off as a merchant ship approached. A rescue programme which was in place to rescue migrants was scrapped by the EU, November last year but yet the number of people trying to cross the Mediterranean has not dropped and the number of those dying has increased significantly.
Over the last few days I have watched with horror on the news as xenophobic violence broke out in South Africa. African turns on African as we forget the long journey we have travelled together against similar injustice and persecution from others who sought to subjugate us perpetually. It is unthinkable that in this day and age, when Africa stands on the cusp of the long awaited realization of its greatness, that we can do this sort of thing to one another.
Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Ernest B. Koroma held a momentous meeting Tuesday with dozens of All People’s Congress – APC/North America Chapter executives at the Washington, DC residence of Mr. Bokari Kortu Stevens, Sierra Leone’s ambassador to the United States of America.
In the Rainbow Nation, South Africa, over a thousand African migrants have now fled their homes after a series of violent attacks on their homes and their businesses. There has been reports that many of the migrants have now been housed at local police stations and make shift tents as angry locals have vowed to drive them all out of South Africa in this new wave of Xenophobic attack.