In just five years 700 Somalis have been killed in South Africa, with few if any legal repercussions
"The returnees are also getting extra assistance to help them settle, including $90 worth of food a month from the World Food Programme"
Migrants face uncertainty and, to survive, they forge identities through business and religion.
Poor leadership has allowed xenophobia to bloom in South Africa, causing the country to fail Africa. Or so says Dr Nkosana Moyo.
The threat from Somali pirates is receding but the international community must continue to work together to eliminate the menace
At least ten people were killed in grenade attacks on Sunday at two churches in Garissa, a town in northern Kenya.
Kenyan security forces are scoureing border regions with war-torn Somalia in the hunt for armed kidnappers who seized four aid workers from Dadaab.
A Somali-born moved to a predominantly coloured area of the Strand near Cape Town to escape xenophobia. But now he has been asked to close shop.
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/ 3 February 2009
The deputy mayor of Somali capital Mogadishu has accused AU peacekeepers of opening fire on commuter buses, killing more than 20 civilians.
About 200 people have looted shops owned by Somalis in Jeffreys Bay, following the alleged rape of a four-year-old girl, police said on Tuesday.