At least 22 people have been killed by anti-immigrant violence in South Africa. Mobs of South Africans angered by rising food prices and electricity shortages are beating, raping and murdering migrants from neighboring Zimbabwe and Mozambique, accusing the foreign workers of stealing jobs and driving up crime rates. Zimbabwe has been devastated by a bloody dictatorship and a broken economy – they recently issued a $500 million bill to keep up with inflation. (via FP Passport)

The United States was finally allowed to deliver aid to cyclone victims in Myanmar despite some resistance from the country's military rulers. Richard Horsey of the United Nations: "The authorities of the country need to open up to an international relief effort. There aren't enough boats, trucks, helicopters in the country to run the relief effort of the scale we need."

An estimated 22,000 people are dead and another 41,000 are missing in Myanmar (also known as Burma), less than a week after tidal waves and floods caused by a cyclone battered the region. Myanmar is ruled by a military dictatorship that is refusing to allow international aid into the country.