South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice is still in written pleadings, with deadlines running to May 2029. The court's 2024 orders found some rights "plausible" and required Israel to take protective measures, but it has not ruled that genocide occurred, nor has it dismissed the case. A separate UN inquiry found genocide in 2025, a finding Israel rejects.
WHO's scientific advisers concluded in 2025 that most peer-reviewed evidence points to a natural spillover from animals, but that a lab accident cannot be ruled out because China has not shared key lab records. The CIA leans toward a lab origin with low confidence, and German intelligence reportedly did too. Neither side has produced conclusive proof.
The US is resettling Afrikaners as refugees, citing race-based persecution and land seizures, and raised its refugee ceiling to 17,500 in May 2026 for that purpose. South Africa, its police data and independent fact-checkers say farm violence is real but not racially targeted and that there is no genocide. The evidence supports the existence of brutal farm crime, not a campaign against a racial group.
