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Foreign nationals in Tshwane abandon bail bid
They have appeared briefly in the Kgosi Mampuru Magistrates Court on a change of trespassing.
Refugees who have been camped outside the UN Refugee Agency's Pretoria offices for over a week are demanding protection and aid to leave South Africa due to victimisation.
Filippo Grandi arrived on Monday and met with representatives of refugees and asylum seekers in Pretoria.
Hundreds of foreign nationals from the DRC, Burundi, Somalia, Pakistan and Zimbabwe have been camping at the United Nations Refugee Agency offices in Cape Town since last Tuesday, desperate to leave a country they once called home.
Foreign nationals have spent three nights at the offices, demanding that the agency to assist them to leave South Africa.
Citizens from various parts of the continent staged a sit-in on Tuesday at the agency's Cape Town offices demanding they be assisted to leave South Africa.
Tendai Biti is understood to be back in Zimbabwe where he is facing criminal charges relating to last week’s disputed presidential election.
The UN agency for refugee’s Markku Alkomus says in South Africa there are asylum seekers from 90 different nationalities.
UNHCR was still there, helping many of the same people now fleeing an internal conflict, he told local government officials in the northern town of Bentiu.
A UN team of investigators said this month that it had uncovered 40 mass grave sites and killings of more than 400 people in Kasai.
The UN said last month that South Sudan’s warring parties are killing, abducting and displacing civilians.
Merkel has resisted pressure from some conservatives to cap the influx of refugees, or to close borders.
Ahead of a January deadline set by regional leaders, not one Hutu rebel had laid down his weapon.
The WFP said it has to raise $35 million every week to meet the food needs of residents.
United Nations says it has supplied food to millions of Syrians in places affected by the unrest.
Widespread looting of rice stocks and other supplies broke out in Leyte province.
EWN’s Africa correspondent Jean-Jacques Cornish reports on the day’s top African news
The AU and Somali government troops secured an aid corridor between Mogadishu and Afgoye.