{"id":246701,"date":"2026-10-09T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-all-of-africa-today-october-9-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:00:33","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-october-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-all-of-africa-today-october-9-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; October 9, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong> \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><strong> Home Affairs Withdraws Asylum Directive After Soweto, Durban Unrest <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"138\">The Department of Home Affairs has<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610090210.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0withdrawn\u00a0<\/a>a directive on the intake of asylum applications following violent anti-immigration protests in Soweto and Durban, where at least 24 vehicles were torched and foreign-owned businesses were looted. The directive was introduced after a July Constitutional Court ruling that allowed asylum seekers to apply for protection regardless of how they entered South Africa or whether they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610090211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Home Affairs Withdraws Asylum Directive After Soweto, Durban Unrest The Department of Home Affairs has\u00a0withdrawn\u00a0a directive on the intake of asylum applications following violent anti-immigration protests in Soweto and Durban, where at least 24 vehicles were torched and foreign-owned businesses were looted. The directive was introduced after a July Constitutional Court ruling that allowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":246702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690559:892aeba7ecfbf66dbd441d348edf549f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,430,257,11113,254,6637],"class_list":["post-246701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-october","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690559:892aeba7ecfbf66dbd441d348edf549f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}