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JOHANNESBURG, Feb 3 (Reuters) - South Africa's foreign ministry said on Monday that its expropriation act was not exceptional, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would cut off funding to ...

Just over a year since a devastating earthquake struck the High Atlas Mountains, on the outskirts of Marrakech, Morocco now ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 30 (Reuters) - South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in ...

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Your browser does not support the <audio> element. In the coming years Africa will become more important than at any time in the modern era. Over the next decade its ...

New avenues for China's flagging export economy Wang's decision to visit Africa, and specifically the Republic of Congo, is strategically important.The country recently became co-chair of the ...

But the impact is the same. “There is a clear collapse of French policy in Africa,” said Thierry Vircoulon, a researcher at the French Institute for International Relations’ Africa Center.

2024 was a bleak year for Africa. Libya and Sudan were partitioned ... Recently, Amnesty International pointed to the flow of weapons into Sudan from the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Turkey, Serbia, ...