UK xenophobia turns against Eastern Europeans

Cape Town - Five years ago today, Somali shopkeeper Abdul Aziz Husein was faced with a choice - stay in Dunoon in an attempt to save his livelihood or flee for his life. He left everything behind. A neighbour with a car helped him escape the ...

"People who live in the community with you block streets," he said. "You are running and hiding. They are beating people, taking property and burning houses." Jeke was one of about 50 people commemorating the 2008 xenophobia riots at a memorial ...

Johannesburg - The sporadic but unremitting attacks on foreigners in South Africa could lead to renewed xenophobic violence, reaching serious proportions last seen in 2008, unless the government demonstrated the willpower to protect immigrants. This ...

Frank, irreverent and funny, and covering topics from nationalism to bullfighting, 'The Xenophobe's Guide to the Spanish' is almost guaranteed to cure xenophobia. Xenophobe's Guides: A book series that highlights the unique character and behaviour ...

Journalist-turned-activist Jose Antonio Vargas recently said that racism and xenophobia have no place in the debate on immigration reform, period. No place? Racism and xenophobia have a permanent place in the

This originally appeared on . As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom — eliciting subsidies and tax breaks from countries concerned about their nation's competitiveness ...

A commemorative event is being held in a central Johannesburg suburb to mark five years since the 2008 xenophobic attacks in South Africa broke out. About 62 people were killed and thousands more displaced after xenophobic violence erupted in major ...

At least 120 foreigners were killed last year and 250 injured, such violence has spread from the Gauteng and the Western Cape to all nine provinces. Residents run riot during the xenophobic violence, while a woman looks over the remains of her ...

Turkey's foreign minister has voiced concern about rising anti-foreigner sentiment in crisis-hit Europe, on a visit to Germany where a neo-Nazi cell's bloody murder spree claimed mostly Turkish migrants among its victims. "We, as Turkey, are ...