ARE WHITE AFRIKANERS AT RISK IN SOUTH AFRICA? NOT REALLY, MOST SAY

 White South Africans demonstrate in support of US President Donald Trump in front of the US embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on February 15, 2025 [Jerome Delay/AP] Sat 22 February 2025: As Trump offers to take in Afrikaner refugees, many say right-wing lobbyists have spread misinformation and fear. Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa – On a […]

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AFRICA’S LEADERS MUST ADDRESS WEAPONISATION OF RAPE IN SUDAN’S CONFLICT

Sun 16 February 2025: Sudan’s women and girls have endured horrific sexual violence throughout this war. They deserve support and protection. Today, African heads of states are convening on the margins of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa to discuss Sudan’s devastating conflict and come up with strategies to try and put the country […]

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TRUMP AND SOUTH AFRICA: WHAT IS WHITE VICTIMHOOD, AND HOW IS IT LINKED TO WHITE SUPREMACY?

 Disgruntled white South Africans protest against farm murders they blame on the government. Alexander Joe/AFP via Getty Images Fri 14 February 2025: American president Donald Trump has issued an executive order to withdraw aid from South Africa. He was reacting to what he has called the South African government’s plan to “seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property […]

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BLOODIED RELATIONS: THE CONFLICT IN THE DRC – THE ROLE OF RWANDA, SOUTH AFRICA, AND ISRAEL

Wed 12 February 2025: On a humid January day last year, a group of women activists gathered outside the UAE’s sprawling embassy in Pretoria’s upscale Waterkloof neighborhood. Among them were pensioners, homemakers, doctors, and journalists, standing resolute with large posters condemning the UAE’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. As they chanted in unison, […]

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HOW POPULIST LEADERS LIKE TRUMP USE ‘COMMON SENSE’ AS AN IDEOLOGICAL WEAPON TO UNDERMINE FACTS

Tue 11 February 2025: It’s “the revolution of common sense,” President Donald Trump announced in his second inaugural address. And so it is. The latest installment of that assertion came in his Jan. 30, 2025, press conference about the Potomac plane crash. When asked how he had concluded that diversity policies were responsible for a crash that was still […]

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US HEALTH FUNDING CUTS: WHAT NIGERIA STANDS TO LOSE

Fri 07 February 2025: US president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization is threatening funding for critical health programmes like HIV/Aids and tuberculosis in different parts of the world, including Nigeria. The Conversation Africa’s Adejuwon Soyinka asked professor of virology and former WHO Africa regional virologist Oyewale Tomori why Nigeria is heavily dependent on US […]

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