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Three United Nations agencies on Tuesday appealed for -million in donations to combat a malnutrition crisis at two major Kenyan refugee camps. ”The malnutrition crisis that we are witnessing … is the cumulative effect of years of recurrent budgetary shortfalls,” Eddie Gedalof from the Kenya office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said.
The Gauteng government’s attempt to negotiate with violent taxi organisations sent out the wrong message about crime, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. The DA’s Gauteng transport spokesperson, James Swart, said bus drivers in Alexandra in Johannesburg had been attacked recently.
Police officers in the Dutch city of Alkmaar were surprised to see a car passing by with a man sitting on a bicycle on its roof. The driver and his wife, when stopped by the police, said they heard a noise while waiting at a traffic light, but did not realise they were taking on an extra passenger.
The hooded killers of the Chadian president’s son were filmed on video surveillance cameras in the underground car park in France where his body was found, a judicial source said on Tuesday. Brahim Déby was discovered dead in his car early on Monday near his home outside Paris.
It is a sport with a history stretching back more than two millennia; its most ardent fans have included emperors and feudal lords; and to be cradled in the arms of one of its practitioners as a child supposedly guarantees a life of robust health. Now Japan’s national sport is fearing for its future after if failed to attract a single new recruit for the first time in its history.
South Africa’s high murder rate rose further in the past year while rape figures dropped, according to police statistics on Tuesday. With around 50 murders, 148 rapes and nearly 700 serious assaults committed each day, violent crime is a particular concern.
The South African Rugby Union is ”an absolute disgrace” and the Springboks should be kicked out of the Tri-Nations, says David Moffett, one of the chief architects of Sanzar. Moffett said that Australia and New Zealand had to cut South Africa from the next television deal, and instead play more trans-Tasman matches.
South African new vehicle sales declined by 12,1% year-on-year in June, data showed on Tuesday, as the effects of higher interest rates pinched household budgets. The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers said 50Â 056 new units were sold in June compared with 56Â 927 in the same month last year.
Kenya is trying to clamp down on a sect, the Mungiki, accused of occultist rituals and beheadings, but which is also seen as a threat to stability. Analysts say the Mungiki is more of an organised criminal gang with political ties than a sect and they warn that such groups could multiply in the crime-prone country.