Thu 13 November 2025: The head of the African Union Commission has rejected claims by US President Donald Trump that Christians are being killed in a genocide in northern Nigeria, telling a UN forum in New York that such characterizations distort a far more complex security crisis. Speaking alongside UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday, Mahmoud Ali […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: President Ramaphosa says, ‘The United States needs to think again whether boycott politics actually works because in my experience it doesn’t work.’ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says United States President Donald Trump’s decision to boycott the Group of 20 (G20) summit next weekend in Johannesburg is “their loss”. The US […]
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Thu 13 November 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ ‘Their loss’: “We will take fundamental decisions and their absence is their loss,” President Ramaphosa told reporters in the coastal city of Cape Town. “In many ways, the United States is also giving up the very important role that they should be playing […]
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Wed 12 November 2025: The UN Women on Tuesday called for urgent action to protect and prioritize women and girls in Sudan, where the ongoing conflict and deepening hunger crisis have left millions in peril. “For over two consecutive years, every front line in Sudan has cut through the bodies, homes, livelihoods, and futures of […]
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Wed 12 November 2025: Here’s what’s happening in *South Africa today:* 👇🏼 ◼️ Argentina’s Milei reportedly skipping G20: Trump and Milei have openly expressed admiration for one another, with Argentina recently benefiting from a $20 billion currency swap deal. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation told The Citizen on Wednesday morning that no confirmation […]
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Tue 11 November 2025: From Gaza to Darfur, we are told we are witnessing “humanitarian crises” and “failures of diplomacy”. But this language obscures the reality of more than two decades of war that has raged in Sudan, that has only now pierced the veil of global consciousness. Gaza and Darfur are not aberrations. They […]
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Tue 11 November 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ MK Party members stuck in Russia-Ukraine war: Seventeen South African men are fighting for their lives on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine after they were sent to Russia by Jacob Zuma’s MK Party for what they believed was training to become […]
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Mon 10 November 2025: African Union Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf expressed grave concern Sunday over the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Mali following reports that terrorist groups have imposed crippling blockades, disrupted access to essential supplies and severely worsened humanitarian conditions for civilians. In a statement, Youssouf condemned the deadly attacks which have killed […]
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Mon 10 November 2025: People fleeing el-Fasher for Al Dabbah tell Al Jazeera many died on the way from wounds or lack of food. A Sudanese medical organisation has accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of engaging in a “desperate attempt” to conceal evidence of mass killings in Darfur by burning bodies or burying […]
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Mon 10 November 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Trump’s boycott triggers political storm in SA: DA spokesperson on international relations Ryan Smith said: “The ANC’s use of Dirco [department of international relations and cooperation] to entertain dalliances with Iran and other malign international actors is now affecting our standing with major […]
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