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A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2023. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 44 per 100,000 in 2023 after a brief drop in 2020.
Communal violence is found in Africa, [4] [5] the Americas, [6] [7] Asia, [8] [9] Europe [10] and Oceania. [11] The term "communal violence" was coined by European colonial authorities as they wrestled to manage outbreaks of violence between religious, ethnic and disparate groups in their colonies, particularly Africa and South Asia, in early ...
The distinct factors and causes of this high percentage have often not been studied due to lack of data. [2] Factors such as low levels of education, religion, and socioeconomic status all are relevant when looking at the causes of domestic violence in Kenya. [2] Sexual coercion is prevalent in Kenya and often leads to abuse as well. [4]
Communal conflicts in Nigeria [3] can be divided into two broad categories: [4] [dubious – discuss]. Ethno-religious conflicts, attributed to actors primarily divided by cultural, ethnic, or religious communities and identities, such as instances of religious violence between Christian and Muslim communities.
Anti-African sentiment, Afroscepticism, or Afrophobia is prejudice, hostility, discrimination, or racism towards people and cultures of Africa and of the African diaspora. [ 1 ] Prejudice against Africans and people of African descent has a long history, dating back to ancient history , although it was especially prominent during the Atlantic ...
"A Tale of Two Townships: Political Opportunity, Violent and Non-Violent Local Control in South Africa", Alex Park's paper exploring causal factors of the 2008 violence "Broke-on-Broke Violence": What the U.S. press got wrong about South Africa's xenophobic riots , By Kerry Chance, Slate Magazine , 20 June 2008
A new lawsuit accuses Facebook of playing a role in political violence in Africa and seeks to hold it accountable by demanding more than $2 billion in
Some one thousand people were killed in riots in 2001, and at least 700 died in subsequent violence in 2008. [5] Jos is the capital of Plateau State, in the middle of the divide between the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria and the predominantly Christian south. [6] Since 2001, the area has been plagued by violence motivated by multiple ...