The President of the UN Human Rights Council, Shameem Khan, has announced the appointment of three members of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East...

Dubai Ports World (DP World) has submitted an offer to acquire Imperial Logistics, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, for $890 million. DP World said in a statement yesterday...

The UK plans to boycott a UN sponsored anti-racism conference in South Africa citing anti-Semitism concerns

Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa have said in an article drawing parallels with the system of racial segregation in South...

Egypt is one of ten countries where Apple Inc will not be offering its new private relay service, a feature which will prevent service providers and advertisers from being...

The United Arab Emirates has ratified a 2018 extradition treaty with South Africa, its embassy in Pretoria said on Wednesday, a move that President Cyril Ramaphosa's government hopes will...

An evocative French film set in a Hiroshima destroyed by the United States atomic bomb in 1945 haunted me throughout the latest dreadful days of carnage in Gaza. I...

The Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) decided to boycott Israeli cinematic productions, in protest against the recent aggression on the Gaza Strip and the continuing violation of Palestinian rights. DIFF...

It is common these days to compare the institutional racism in Israel, and its occupation of Palestine, to Apartheid South Africa. Up to a point, it's a reasonable comparison....

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that the situation in Gaza reminds him of the apartheid era in his own country

South African civil society organisations have submitted an urgent legal application to the National Prosecuting Authority to probe and charge Israeli leaders for crimes committed against Palestinians. The legal...

Nakba Day – 73 years since the onset of the 'catastrophe'​, with Apartheid Israel having believed Palestinian memories would fade away, has witnessed unity and courage of a people...

The Syrian People's Assembly yesterday agreed to invite friendly Arab and foreign parliaments to observe the presidential elections scheduled in May, local media reported. SANA news agency said the parliaments...

Hamas has revealed that it has met with the ambassadors of Russia, Turkey, Iran, and South Africa in Qatar — Nur Muhammad Khulov, Mustafa Goksu, Hamid Reza Dehghani, and...

South Africa's Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was yesterday ordered to apologise after being found guilty of violating the country's judicial code of conduct for pro-Israel comments he made in...

A classified report prepared by UN investigators revealed that the founder of the private security company Blackwater, Eric Prince, violated the arms embargo in Libya and tried to overthrow...

United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Tuesday said the UN is deeply concerned by the situation of nearly 31,000 foreign children detained in Al-Hawl and Rouge refugee camps in...

The African Union last weekend reaffirmed the continent's support for the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation, and strongly condemned Israel's violence against Palestinians, its construction of illegal settlements, and...

Israel's repression of its own Palestinian citizens, as well as Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and even African refugees, has become ever more brutal, despite...

The petition for South Africa's ANC-led government to lift punitive visa restrictions on Palestinians wanting to travel to the country is an embarrassing but necessary exercise. Many people, including...

Sudanese Foreign Minister Omar Gamar Eddine Ismail confirmed that "the new conditions for returning to the Renaissance Dam negotiations to conduct meaningful talks on the issue were presented to...

Egypt and Sudan participated in a ministerial meeting yesterday sponsored by the African Union (AU) and focused on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations. The government in Addis...

Israel barred foreign nationals from the UK, Denmark and South Africa after a new "fast spreading" strain of COVID-19 was discovered, i24 News reported. The UK's Chief Medical Adviser...

Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the US, sports creates the necessary "fantasy world" required to shield people from understanding, organizing, and attempting to "influence the...

African diplomats yesterday called out the UN for its inaction on Palestine and its failure to end Israel's more than half-century occupation. According to the Afro-Palestine Newswire Service, South Africa's...

Rarely in the history of mankind does something positive come out of the nerve centre of financial capital and speculative parasites. The BRICS idea may be a rare exception...

An article about a South African man who claimed to have walked from Cape Town to Jerusalem has been taken down by MEMO after it was revealed that he...

When I applauded Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan for his firm stance against "normalisation" with Israel earlier this month, a friend posed an interesting query. Is it true, he...

Algerian elected as vice president of the international union of geological sciences (IUGS) for 2020-2024. Professor Hassina Mouri, a South African national who is of Algerian origin, was voted...

US President Donald Trump yesterday vowed that any attack by Iran would be met with a response "1,000 times greater in magnitude" amid reports that the Islamic Republic was plotting...

Authorities in South Africa were unaware that Iran was plotting to assassinate US Ambassador to the country, Lana Marks. According to Bloomberg, a spokesman for the South African Foreign Ministry...

Iran yesterday dismissed claims it is planning to assassinate the US Ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, in retaliation for America's assassination of its General Qassem Soleimani, news agencies reported....