Attacks – The Mail & Guardian

/ 20 December 2022

Court orders Mbalula to take action against attacks on long-distance buses, pending appeal outcome

Transport minister must develop a plan to ensure the safety of drivers and passengers as violent attacks continue

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By Eunice Masson

National

/ 13 January 2022

Timeline: State security-compromising attacks

Eskom, parliament, constitutional court, looting could all be linked. ‘We smell a rat’, says Blade Nzimande

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By Tunicia Phillips

National

/ 12 July 2021

All public transport in KZN stops as looting spreads

More than 120 people have already been arrested for looting and public violence in the province

By Paddy Harper

Africa

/ 10 November 2020

Conflict in Cameroon: The schools caught in crossfire

A slew of recent attacks in the country means sending your child to school can be a life or death decision

By Daniel Ekonde

Africa

/ 26 May 2020

Armed militants wage war on Burkina Faso’s schools

A survivor tells of how Islamists carrying AK-47s arrived on motorbikes, forced fleeing children to lie on the ground and beat teachers before setting a building on fire

By Birgit Schwarz

Article

/ 31 May 2019

Juju’s words can hurt

Malema understands well the power of language

By Editorial

Article

/ 6 May 2019

Palestinians say truce reached with Israel to end deadly escalation

Israel also lifted restrictions on civilian movements in communities around the Gaza border on Monday morning

By Adel Zaanoun

Article

/ 25 April 2019

Pakistan polio vaccine teams on edge after fatal attacks

Multiple polio vaccination workers in Pakistan have been killed in attacks targeting health workers in the country’s northwest earlier this week

By Agency

Africa

/ 25 April 2019

The faceless insurgency in Mozambique that no one can explain

‘I have never come across something like this before’

By Simon Allison

Article

/ 16 October 2017

Double standards: Why is there no #Somalia?

Unlike other tragedies such as Las Vegas and Manchester, there has been no outpouring on social media for the deadly blast in Somalia.

By Al Jazeera

Africa

/ 18 June 2017

Two dead in jihadist attack on tourist resort in Bamako

About 20 hostages freed by special forces

By Afp And and Staff Reporter

Africa

/ 10 April 2017

State of emergency in Egypt after IS church bombings kill 44

Two Coptic churches were attacked on Palm Sunday.

By Staff Reporter

Article

/ 26 August 2016

Crowd lynches and burns two Hutu women ‘militants’ in east of DR Congo

Interethnic tensions in the region surge in the wake of massacres that have killed hundreds of civilians

By Reuters

Article

/ 23 March 2016

Bombers’ links to Paris shootings raise intel questions

One of the el-Bakraoui brothers is believed to have provided ammunition and weapons for the Paris attacks.

By Angelique Chrisafis

Article

/ 23 March 2016

‘It is all of Europe that is hit’

Belgium’s neighbours have rallied in support after this week’s ‘acts of war’ that shook Brussels.

By Julian Borger

Article

/ 27 March 2015

Writers rally around the author who dared to admire Rushdie

"She would not have avoided a conversation. But debate, conversation and engagement are not possible in the face of violence."

By Staff Reporter

Article

/ 30 November 2014

South African pastor killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing

A South African pastor and his two teenage children are the latest casualties of a spate of attacks by the Taliban across Afghanistan.

By Verashni Pillay

Article

/ 30 November 2014

South Africans killed in attack on Kabul compound

The South African head of an organisation, his son and daughter, and one Afghan were killed in a Taliban attack on a compound for foreigners in Kabul.

By Sapa Afp