By Tougheeda Doovey South African aid workers have described the catastrophic conditions in refugee camps on the border of Syria and Turkey, as fighting in northwest Syria intensifies. The Syrian army is advancing in its battle on Idlib and civilians have been the worst affected. About 800,000 Syrians are facing desperate conditions in camps and in the past four days alone, more than 150,000 Syrians have fled villages. A military […]
In the latest of our series of letters from African journalists, Yousra Elbagir criticises the Sudanese government's failure to get to grips with a cholera outbreak. After 10 months, Sudan's Ministry of Health finally confirmed that there have been 265 deaths and more than 16,000 infected cases of "acute watery diarrhoea" in 11 of the country's 18 states. A half-admission that came only after the disease pierced the bubble of Sudan's […]
EU ministers are pushing forward with plans to fund refugee camps outside the bloc to save migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean and bringing into Europe only those “who require protection.” The long-debated topic was on the table at Thursday’s meeting between EU interior ministers in the Maltese capital, Valletta. Officials focused on the problem of refugees attempting to reach the Union via the Mediterranean and smugglers profiting from sending […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
