South Africa on Friday said it would decriminalise sex work, hoping to tackle high levels of crime against women in a country with one of the world's highest HIV caseloads.

Of the terms plastered across the front pages of dailies in the past few days following the attacks on Nigerian businesses in South Africa, xenophobia has been prominent.

African Union Commission Tuesday asked South African authorities to ensure the administration of justice to perpetrators of xenophobic attacks on foreigners in the country. The chairman of the commission Moussa Faki Mahamat in a statement by his spokesperson Ebba Kalondo condemned the incidents of violence against nationals of fellow African countries in South Africa, including the…