JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s minister of justice and correctional services has requested that a judge reopen an inquest into the death of prominent Muslim anti-apartheid activist Imam Abudllah Haron who died more than 50 years ago. “The renewed investigation into the Apartheid Crime will consider expert reports from a state pathologist ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday held a ceremony to honor the 26 victims of the 1992 Ferhadija massacre in the capital Sarajevo. Relatives of the victims and politicians participated in the ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre. Dozens of people laid wreaths and prayed at the monument built [&helli...
BERLIN (AA) – The family of the 1993 Solingen arson attack victims has called for stronger unity against racism and right-wing extremism in Germany. Kamil Genc, who lost his two daughters and two sisters in the racist attack, called on people to join the commemoration events on Sunday, in the western city of Solingen. The […]
Pretoria, South Africa – (AFP): Hundreds of protesters from a radical leftist party in South Africa marched Wednesday on the French embassy in Pretoria to demand that France leave Africa. Chanting “Fuck off, France” and dressed in their trademark red T-shirts and caps, the Economic Freedom Fighters carried placards reading &#...
TERNTON, Canada – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Governor General Mary Simon and Indigenous leaders gathered together to commemorate the first anniversary of the finding of unmarked graves at a former Indian Residential School site. While Trudeau made his way through the crowd in the late evening, there were also chants of ̶...
President Joe Biden today signed an executive order to “advance effective, accountable policing and criminal justice practices” that will build public trust and strengthen safety. The White House announcement came on the second anniversary of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a former Minneapolis police officer. Floyd’s murder spurr...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – A ceremony was held in the Tuzla city of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday to honor the 71 victims of the 1995 massacre. The relatives of the victims and politicians participated in the ceremony to mark the 27th anniversary of the May 25, 1995 massacre, also known as the Kapija massacre. […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has said it is “appalled” by “jarring” photographic evidence of China’s widespread rights abuses against its minority Muslim Uyghur population. “This new reporting further adds to an already damning body of evidence of the PRC’s atrocities in Xinjiang,” State Depart...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The senseless killing of George Floyd by a police officer two years ago in the US state of Minnesota is still vivid in the minds of African Americans. On May 25, 2020, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, placed his knee on the back of Floyd’s neck for […]
NAIROBI, Kenya – (AA): Leading media outlets, mainly in North America and Europe, are using images of African negroid people alongside stories of the monkeypox outbreak, which has offended many Africans. The Foreign Press Association, Africa (FPAA), a Pan African non-profit membership organization of journalists covering Africa for the i...
