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SOUTH AFRICAReporters from the Swedish weekly newspaper Nya Tider (New Times) have traveled to South Africa to investigate whether the "Rainbow Nation" is the success story that Swedish establishment media sometimes say – as far as they are at all interested in the land that has been in the media focal point until 1994. We met with politicians, farmers and victims. Thousands of farmers have been murdered in the Rainbow Nation, and the fear is always present.

After heavy fighting and thousands of casualties, Yazidi warriors together with the Kurdish military Peshmerga managed to retake the mountain town of Sinjar from the Islamic State, close to the Syrian border in northern Iraq. Mass graves and ruins bear witness to the ravages of the Islamic State, and the war has forced more than 30,000 Yazidi families to live in refugee camps in the mountains. New Times got a unique opportunity to visit the camps that Europe has deprioritized and follow the soldiers defending their hometown against the Islamic State, which is only a hundred metres away. Together with the help organization Hatune Foundation we visited the camps.

Ostentatious headlines in Aftonbladet, Expressen and other media declared that ”six Swedes”, later ”eight Swedes” had been arrested for a rough gang rape on a Finland ferry. Nya Tider is now the first newspaper to reveal that not even the white lie that the arrested Somalis are ”Swedish citizens” is right – all the detainees are Somali citizens, and of all the suspects only one has a Swedish citizenship.

From our special correspondent.Translation by Lennart Svensson of an article by Dan Malmqvist.

NyT in Donetsk.A city under siege.