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Elon Musk’s strong reaction to South Africa calling Afrikaners ‘cowards’

Elon Musk who is from South Africa accused the government of genocide of white farmers. Elon Muskhas strongly reacted to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa calling the Afrikaners who sought asylum in the United States ‘cowards’. The Donald Trump administration has shut its doors to all illegal immigrants forcing them out of the country, encouraging […]

Why are white refugees from South Africa coming to the US?

A group of 59 white South Africans, mainly Afrikaners, arrived in the United States this week under a refugee resettlement initiative led by President Donald Trump. The programme, introduced earlier this year, has fast-tracked applications from members of this white minority group, with Trump claiming they are victims of racially motivated violence and “genocide” in […]

How hard are USAID cuts hitting Africa?

Representative Image (AI) For the inhabitants of remote South African villages, getting access to medication is a challenge. HIV patients like 19-year-old Nozuko Majola must travel more than an hour to get the vital antiretroviral medication they need.But it wasn’t always like this.“We used to get the drugs delivered to our homes, but since Donald […]

WFP warns of record hunger levels in west and central Africa | World News

DAKAR: The UN World Food Programme sounded the alarm on Friday over escalating hunger in west and central Africa as needs reach “record levels”.More than 36 million people are struggling to meet their food needs, a number that could rise to 52 million people during the lean season between harvests this summer, the agency said […]

South Africa says its peacekeeping troops are withdrawing from rebel-held eastern Congo

Representative Image (AI-generated) CAPE TOWN: The South African armed forces said Thursday they had begun withdrawing their peacekeeping troops from rebel-controlled eastern Congo. The South African National Defense Force said the troops began moving out earlier this week and would travel through neighboring Rwanda to Tanzania and fly home from there. Peacekeeping troops from Malawi […]

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West

Mr. Mudimbe was unapologetic. “To the question ‘what is Africa?’ or ‘how to define African cultures?’ one today cannot but refer to a body of knowledge in which Africa has been subsumed by Western disciplines such as anthropology, history, theology or whatever other scientific discourse,” he told Callaloo. “And this is the level on which […]

Trump signals he’ll skip G20 summit in South Africa over ‘land confiscation’ and ‘white genocide’

US president Donald Trump has signalled he will skip the G20 summit in South Africa due to “land confiscation” and “ white genocide.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “How could we be expected to go to South Africa for the very important G20 meeting when land confiscation and genocide is the primary […]

Effort to Get Starlink in South Africa Collides With Tension Over Musk

South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has been vocal about his desire to see his country’s wealthiest son, Elon Musk, invest some of his billions at home. But his overtures have been stymied by Mr. Musk’s criticism of the South African government as racist. Mr. Musk has argued that a law requiring foreign companies to sell […]

The Battle for Sudan’s Capital

Reporting from the frontline, The New York Times’s Africa chief correspondent, Declan Walsh, details the fierce struggle for the bridges over the Nile and its tributaries that divide the Sudanese capital. Source link