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/ 10 February 2009
The response to the May 2008 xenophobic attacks was "characterised by chaos", said a recent report by the Wits Forced Migration Studies Programme.
Israel will be urged on Friday to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip to avert a humanitarian disaster as the Middle East ”quartet” meets to consider the state of the faltering peace process. Oxfam and five other United Kingdom aid agencies are calling for the quartet to end its ”complacency” by putting the ”highest diplomatic pressure” on Israel.