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There’s excitement bubbling in Kigali, Rwanda, ahead of the Global AI Summit on Africa, which opens today, promising economic opportunities and innovation. Not least because of last week’s ...
US President Donald Trump’s second term has brought South Africa’s domestic human rights record into stark international prominence. Based on misinformation, Trump’s anti-South African ...
The administration of President Donald Trump has declared South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool a persona non grata in the United States. In a social media post on Friday, US Secretary of State ...
The African Union says that the announcement of a parallel government in war-torn Sudan risks severing the country, already ravaged by nearly two years of fighting. The paramilitary Rapid Support ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The Trump administration’s decision to expel the South African ambassador is its latest move against a country it has singled out for sanctions and accused of being ...
East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers. By Abdi Latif Dahir and Justin Scheck Photographs by Kiana Hayeri Abdi Latif ...
With one exception. The Trump administration has thrown open the doors to white Afrikaners from South Africa, establishing a program called “Mission South Africa” to help them come to the ...
In Africa, solar, wind and geothermal projects are gaining momentum as countries look to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels, lower carbon emissions and increase people’s access to electricity.
STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s automotive capital. From the outset, putting a four-star military ...
The US is expelling South Africa's ambassador to Washington, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio describing him as a "race-baiting politician". In a post on X, Rubio accused Ebrahim Rasool of ...
About two decades ago, African nations launched an audacious plan: a 7,700km “Great Green Wall” to hold back the Sahara Desert’s southward march. Yet years passed and progress was stalled ...