Bloemfontein - About 100 families were evicted on Wednesday by the Maluti-A-Phofung municipality from an informal settlement near Phuthaditjhaba in the Free State. Municipal spokesperson Kedibone Sentle said the Constitutional Court found in favour of the
Published : 11 June 2014Despite President Poroshenko intention to bring about a ceasefire, Kiev’s relentless military operation in the country`s east is intensifying. Slavyansk has become one of the main targets of artillery attacks, amateur videos filmed in the
Published : 09 June 2014A long-awaited set of sustainable development goals were released on Tuesday. They are meant to inform high-level negotiations for a post-2015 global development framework which will kick into high gear this September during the United Nations General
Published : 04 June 2014A long-awaited set of sustainable development goals were released on Tuesday. They are meant to inform high-level negotiations for a post-2015 global development framework which will kick into high gear this September during the United Nations General
Published : 02 June 2014Several houses along Mombasa road that were under construction have this morning been demolished by the Kenya Veterinary Vaccines Production Institute (kevevapi). The government parastatal claims that its land has been grabbed by unscrupulous people
Published : 21 May 2014OTTAWA—Ottawa’s Leilani Farha, a lawyer and anti-poverty activist, has been appointed UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing. Farha, executive director of Canada Without Poverty, learned of her appointment Wednesday, which also happened to be her birthday. Farha
Published : 12 May 2014Government forces are making one final push to capture territory before seasonal rains make troop and vehicle movement impossible. After nearly a month of blanket shelling and pillaging in nearby Rashad and Abbasiya, a Rapid
Published : 30 April 2014Big-4 Aussie Banks and Forced Eviction Australian banks financing illegal logging, forced eviction, child labour, says Oxfam 28 April 2014 The Malaysian Insider Oxfam on Monday accused Australia`s big four banks of financing companies the charity said were
Published : 28 April 2014Earlier this month, the residents of Deep Sea slum in Westlands, were dealt a nasty blow when a fire razed the settlement, rendering at least 200 homeless. But this is not the only challenge that this
Published : 25 April 2014