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Making headlines: Nigeria and South Africa seek to ease tensions over xenophobic attacks; DA lodges human rights complaint against Ekurhuleni over housing; And, Uganda's health minister declares country free of Ebola

Nigeria and South Africa seek to ease tensions over xenophobic attacks

Nigeria said South Africa had agreed to bring to justice those responsible for attacks on foreign nationals, while Abuja was compiling compensation claims for losses suffered by Nigerians as both countries pledged to tone down rhetoric over the violence.

The commitments followed talks in Abuja between Nigeria's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and South African International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola, aimed at easing tensions sparked by attacks on Nigerian nationals in South Africa.

South African vigilante groups have repeatedly targeted foreign African nationals and looted migrant-owned businesses in recent months. Anti-immigrant protesters marched in several cities in June, calling for undocumented migrants to leave the country.

Nigeria repatriated about 1 490 citizens following the unrest, Nigeria's foreign ministry said last week.

Lamola said the South African government condemned "all forms of xenophobia" and stressed that no individual had the right to take the law into their own hands.

DA lodges human rights complaint against Ekurhuleni over housing

The DA has escalated its battle over service delivery by laying a formal complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission against the City of Ekurhuleni, in which it accuses the municipality of persistently failing to resolve what the party describes as a housing crisis.

The DA wants the Chapter 9 institution to issue binding recommendations to enforce accountability, boost transparency, and speed up project delivery.

This move follows a Memorandum of Demands that the DA submitted to Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s office last month, which requested urgent provincial intervention.

According to DA Ekurhuleni mayoral candidate Khathutshelo Rasilingwane, the Premier’s office has completely ignored the submission.

She explained that Ekurhuleni accounts for a housing backlog of 283 235 households, noting that this figure was revealed in response to questions submitted by the DA to the Human Settlements MMC in October 2025.

The DA argued that the municipality is violating basic legal mandates. Section 26 of the Constitution guarantees the right to adequate housing, while the Housing Act forces local governments to drive sustainable development.

And, Uganda's health minister declares country free of Ebola

Uganda's health minister declared the country Ebola-free following the East African nation's latest outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic disease that infected 20 people and killed two of them.

Uganda has suffered multiple outbreaks of Ebola since 2000, when it recorded its first epidemic, and officials say over the years the country gained expertise it has used to bring recent infections under control quickly with limited community spread.

Fifteen people in the latest outbreak, declared in mid-May, were infected in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo - the epicentre of the epidemic, where the number of confirmed cases now stands at more than 3 000.

Uganda said the announcement follows the "successful completion of the mandatory 42-day monitoring period which begun after the discharge of the last Ugandan national, a locally transmitted patient, on the 16 of June, 2026."

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today

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