Residents complain they have not received the promised compensation. Kigali authorities say the hundreds of houses have been destroyed to save lives.

The Department of Home Affairs on Thursday said it’s checked their status and was now trying to get them to return to their places of residence in South Africa.

The minister was speaking at a memorial service she hosted for the Western Sahara Ambassador Radhi Bashir who died last week.

African Union (AU) commission head Moussa Faki Mahamat said silencing the guns was a challenging goal for the AU next year, particularly with the rise of terrorism and transnational organised crime.

More than 180 of the refugees appeared in the Pretoria Magistrates Court on Monday and insisted they wanted to be moved to a country where they would be safe from xenophobic attacks.

They are responding to a court order from Wednesday, giving them three days to end their sit-in outside the UN premises.

By next week, officials should start drawing up a list of protesters legally in the country as refugees and asylum seekers and deporting those who are not.

The residents' associations of Brooklyn and Waterkloof are seeking a court order forcing the Tshwane metropolitan authority, South African Police Service and Department of Home Affairs to move the refugees.

Refugees have been sleeping at the centre for weeks now, demanding to be moved to safety, away from the xenophobic attacks that they have suffered in South Africa.

Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Adrian Roos, a member of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Home Affairs, said government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) should clarify the matter.

The refugees, mostly from the Democratic Republic of Congo, said their sit-in was drawing more support daily.

Jean-Jacques Cornish says Tunisia’s hopes of reviving its tourism sector will be hindered by the collapse of travel firm Thomas Cook.

The spotlight is being turned on the plight of refuges across the globe by the United Nations General Assembly starting in New York, writes Jean-Jacques Cornish.

Young people say the candidates for the upcoming elections do not represent their aspirations for a country they maintain is no long the African success story, writes Jean-Jacques Cornish.

Hain called the ousted Zimbabwe president a classical example of a liberator who betrayed the values of the struggle he championed.

The US and Brazilian leaders are putting the short-term political benefit of climate change denialism above the long-term interests of generations too young to vote for them, writes Jean-Jacques Cornish.

It was seized last Friday following a Gauteng High Court ruling in favour of a Namibian-born farmer seeking $33 million in compensation for the nationalisation of his farm by Tanzanian authorities decades ago.

They produce antibodies that cling to the Ebola virus and destroy it.