A legal expert from the UCT Law Clinic has raised serious safety concerns over the decision by the Department of Home Affairs to ask refugees to travel to Nyanga to apply for asylum papers.

The United Nations refugee today launched an appeal for $11.9 million to help assist the return of refugees, mainly from camps in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia, to South Sudan.

Senior officials with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have concluded a visit to North Kivu to assess ongoing efforts to restore peace and stability in the province.