Africa: Europe, Africa Face Moment of Reckoning As Global Shifts Expose Limits of Unequal Partnership

As global fragmentation exposes the widening gap between international rules and lived realities, the Europe-Africa partnership is increasingly tested on whether it can move beyond… Read more »

South Africa: US Senate Chair - Russia 'Violating Treaty' in Antarctic Oil, Gas Hunt Via Cape Town

A rare rebuke from the Foreign Relations Committee elevates years of quiet prospecting into a test of whether the US will enforce a ban it helped to write. Read more »

South Africa: Ukraine's Ambassador to SA Refuses to Mourn Khamenei

Ambassador Olexander Scherba declined to sign a condolence book at the Iranian embassy 'due to the Shahed drones supplied to Russia'. Read more »

South Africa: South Africans Lured to Fight for Russia in Ukraine Are On Their Way Home

Most of the 17 South Africans who were trapped on the front line in Ukraine are out of the war zone. They were allegedly recruited by the MK party. Read more »

South Africa: Paris Signals Strong, but Nuanced, Support for Pretoria On the Global Stage

French President Emmanuel Macron will keep SA's G20 agenda alive in the G7. Read more »

Africa: As Europe Drinks Less, Big Alcohol Turns to Africa

As drinking declines in Europe and North America, global alcohol companies are shifting their growth strategy towards emerging markets - including South Africa. Public health… Read more »

Africa: Fear of Diversity in Europe, Greed in Africa - - America's Two-Faced Strategy

The same administration that lectures Europe about borders and identity turns around and treats Africa like a giant piggy bank. Ideology for Europe. Profit for Africa. Read more »

South Africa: 'Unacceptable' - - Norway's Prime Minister Decries Reason for the Us Boycott of G20 Summit

Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre criticises the US's absence from the G20 Leaders' Summit, calling its explanation for missing it 'unacceptable'. He highlights… Read more »

South Africa: Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla Resigns As an MP After Allegedly Duping Party Members to Fight for Russia

uMkhonto Wesizwe party MP Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla has resigned from Parliament after criminal charges were laid against her for allegedly duping party supporters to fight for Russia… Read more »

South Africa: Safm Presenter and Four Others in the Dock Over Alleged Russia Mercenaries Recruitment Plot

Five suspects appeared in the Kempton Park Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with contravening the Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act. Read more »

South Africa: Why We Need Stronger Multilateralism to Strengthen Global Ties and Go Further, Together

The European Union -- born from the ruins of war -- is living proof that multilateralism works. What once divided us now binds us: a single market, a shared legal framework, and… Read more »

South Africa: SA's Shuttle Diplomacy Between Kyiv and Moscow Is At Ukraine's Direction, Says Dirco DG

Dirco director-general Zane Dangor, fresh from a visit to Ukraine, says Pretoria is being guided by Ukraine in its ongoing role of providing shuttle diplomacy between the warring… Read more »

Mali: Russia's Wagner Mercenary Group Has Failed in Mali, Says the Sentry

A major investigation has found that the mercenary 'private security' company has failed to accomplish its mission of defeating jihadists and separatists in the West African… Read more »

South Africa: 'Winkgate' Is Manufactured Social Media Outrage That Will Add More Fuel to the SA-Ireland Rugby Rivalry

The Sharks beat Ireland's Munster in the United Rugby Championship quarterfinals through a penalty shootout -- but the result was almost overshadowed by an on-field wink. Read more »

Africa: Nato and the G7 - Global Power Fractures That Africa Must Watch

Geopolitical shifts in the Western alliance could have a considerable impact on Africa's fortunes. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Ghosts of History and the Policing of Remembrance

January 17 marked the 55th anniversary of the US- and Belgian-orchestrated assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic… Read more »