A foreign national has been beaten to death by a crowd of about 50 people in Durban, South Africa, police say.

According to police, the unidentified man, believed to be in his late 30s or early 40s, was first approached by two men by the roadside before being assaulted by a larger group. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police have launched an investigation into the murder, with the motive yet to be established.

The killing follows a wave of protests against immigrants in South Africa this year, some of which have turned violent. Earlier this month, shops and cars were set on fire in Durban, as well as Soweto, near Johannesburg.

Malian singer and songwriter Salif Keita has cancelled his upcoming commercial performances in South Africa over reports of xenophobic violence against African migrants, his spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.

He described the cancellation as a “painful decision”, but stressed that his action was not directed at South Africans or the country itself.

“To be clear, I am not closing the door on South Africa. I am closing the door on violence,” he said.

“When I see migrants being attacked, I don’t see ‘politics’. I see people searching for work, safety, and dignity. That does not match the South Africa I know, the South Africa that stood firm with Mali, and the South Africa that Nelson Mandela built,” he said.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila on Monday launched a new political and military coalition of groups opposed to the current government, including the M23 rebels who have captured wide swaths of territory in eastern Congo.

Kabila’s new Front for the Refoundation of the Nation, or FRN, includes rebel groups formerly united under the Congo River Alliance, whose former leader Corneille Nangaa will serve as one of the new coalition’s four vice presidents.

Coalition adviser Claude Ibalanky said at a news conference late Monday at Kabila’s residence in the eastern city of Goma that the FRN’s mission is to restore the pillars of a functioning republic. It aims to “unite and coordinate all resistance forces in order to put an end to tyranny — by any means necessary, including the use of force,” Ibalanky said.

Uganda's parliament approved the potential deployment of its military to the Gaza Strip as part of an international force proposed under Donald Trump's ceasefire plan.

The decision follows a request from the United States, conveyed through diplomatic channels to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in July.

It's the first public acknowledgement by Uganda of its willingness to join the proposed force, which is part of a wider ceasefire and reconstruction plan for Gaza.

The plan includes disarmament of Hamas, Israeli troop withdrawal, humanitarian aid, and a civilian administration led by Palestinian technocrats, but little progress has been made so far.

Several women were killed, including by current or former partners in Cameroon between August 6 to 26, some in the presence of their children. These killings are the latest signs that women in Cameroon, including domestic violence victims and survivors, have little protection or access to justice.

The Ministry for the Promotion of Women and the Family (Ministère de la Promotion de la Femme et de la Famille or MINPROFF), tasked with creating, implementing, and reviewing policies that protect women’s rights, has acknowledged a surge in reported femicides since 2023, and warned that the government’s figures represent the “tip of the iceberg.”

Femicide is the intentional killing of women and girls with a gender-related motivation, according to the United Nations. Femicides are the most brutal manifestation of violence against women and girls. In Cameroon, violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, is widespread and rooted in entrenched gender inequality, discriminatory laws, and weak institutions, exacerbated by the government’s chronic underinvestment in prevention and survivor support. Accountability is limited, reinforcing a climate of impunity.

now I'm all against corruption but allow me to share my perspective.

I'm a Tanzanian who has also spent alot of my life in Uganda

and one thing I've noticed is that African systems literally run on some level of corruption.

think of it like a scarf... corruption is a string that has been woven into the systems that power the daily lives that we live and this has been going on for so long that it's basically impossible to untangle and "stop corruption"

lemmi give examples.

public transport - most taxis/buses are owned illegally by government officials, policemen, traffickers laundering money etc...

buildings both commercial and residential - same with public transport, most of these have really twisted systems that allow them to operate.

food industry, farmland, processing factories and their Indian owners, electricity companies owned by individuals who aren't even citizens, food products and their standards, fake merchandise being sold everywhere...

literally all systems that enable the average citizen to live a life and make a small living to survive do involve a percentage or corruption or some level of illegal schemes.

therefore the saying "end corruption" honestly starts to lose meaning when you think of it like this. Cuz I'm imagining if at all we decided corruption should stop. We shall begin to really see things collapsing, businesses, companies, political leaders, schools, transportation, banking etc... systems will begin to fail cuz the seed of corruption that was planted more than 50 years ago is no longer being watered to produce it's results.

We shall have to rebuild from scratch.

In summary, I believe we are running on a broken system. Like a car with a nail in the tire, but this time the nail even though it's pierced the tire, the nail itself is covering the hole and preventing air from leaking out.