Cabo Verde’s national team is at the World Cup for the first time in their history. To understand why they might surprise everyone, you need to understand morabeza. africasacountry.com/2026/06/…

Amid visa refusals and bureaucratic hostility, Algeria’s unexpected love affair with Lawrence, Kansas, offers a glimpse of the World Cup at its best. By @MezahiMaher africasacountry.com/2026/06/…

This photo was taken in 2008. I was a young reporter, notebook in hand, in Khayelitsha, trying to make sense of the first wave of xenophobic violence to rip through this country. I was profoundly affected. I watched Somalian mothers in tents, cradling their babies in disbelief. Spoke to Ethiopian men, almost crying from the shock and pain of it all. I thought: We will never let this happen again. Yet, here we are. Eighteen years later and I'm watching the same fires, literal and figurative, and the same dangerous lies spreading faster than ever, turbocharged by social media and amplified by politicians who should know better. But the numbers do not support the narrative. Immigrants, documented and undocumented combined, make up roughly 4 million people. That is about 5% of our population. The idea that 5% of the country is responsible for our crime, our unemployment, our collapsing healthcare? It is not just wrong, it is mathematically absurd. Look at who the Zondo and Madlanga Commissions have implicated. Look at rape statistics: 120 women a day, and a third of South African men have admitted to committing rape. Are we really blaming foreigners for that? If every undocumented immigrant left tomorrow, your local public hospital would still be broken. Not because of the person standing ahead of you in the queue, but because of corruption, mismanagement and decades of underfunding that have nothing to do with them.  March and March's June 30 deadline is not a peaceful protest. It is a dog whistle. And the media and political figures who treat it as legitimate activism are complicit in what it is actually designed to trigger. I started explain.co.za because I believe that access to accurate, contextual information is not a nice-to-have. It is the foundation of a functioning democracy. And a democracy that allows dangerous misinformation to go unchallenged, that allows real economic despair to be weaponised against the most vulnerable, is one that is putting itself at serious risk. We have covered this crisis extensively at explain.co.za. We will keep doing so. Because owe it to each other to do better. #SouthAfrica #Xenophobia #MediaLiteracy #Journalism #Democracy #Explain #FactsMatter #SouthAfricanMedia #BuildingInPublic #Immigration

Mr. Artan would be welcomed and celebrated in British Columbia for what he’s overcome and where he is today. Let’s have him referee in Vancouver.

Reminder: we are suspending immigration documents for residents of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan for 90 days. During this time, we also plan to pause decisions on applications from these countries. This is vital to respond to the Ebola outbreak and prevent the disease from spreading to Canada: bit.ly/3PCHdOd

'The response to the #hacking of Canvas shows laziness, indifference and an almost tortious neglect about the welfare and #privacy of #students and staff.' Caveat #Canvas: #ShinyHunters Hacks the #Education Sector - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2026/05/14/…

At the policy debate with @IOMchief, we discussed the need to manage migration on a route-based approach.Effective migration management means ensuring that every country along the route takes responsibility for fighting migrant smuggling and providing protection to those in need.

A former top US official is expressing regret for supporting Tshisekedi in 2018. Note: the official results of the 2018 election were highly disputed (to say the least), and the US influence helped to ensure that the final outcome would go Tshisekedi's way.