South Africa: Troop deployment increased to 25,000

South Africa’s government has increased the number of troops sent into the streets to quell violence and looting to 25,000, ten times the number initially deployed. At least 70 people have been killed, while 1,700 have been arrested, during six days of unrest.

Plus, Fiseha Asgedom, a former Ethiopian diplomat now representing the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, responds to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s claim that the TPLF has engaged in fighting along aid corridors in Tigray.

And Cameroonian art curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on why he chose to shine a light on Dutch colonial history by making labour the focus of his exhibition at the Sonsbeek Biennale.

(Photo: South African soldiers stand guard at Maponya Mall in Soweto; Credit: Getty Images)