World Humanitarian Day

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About 400 million children (one in five) live in or are fleeing war. Photo: File

Humanity in dire need in Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Haiti

Around the world, more than 300 million people require humanitarian assistance and protection

Chris Jones

For the last decade, the government has been complaining that the country has become a destination of bogus asylum seekers who left their homes in search of economic opportunities. (Mujahid Safodien/AFP/Getty Images)

SA needs to rethink its definition of what constitutes asylum seeking

Eurocentric approach to refugees is not relevant to African situation

Callixte Kavuro