More than 70 people were killed overnight when fire raged through a five-story Johannesburg apartment block, one of the worst such disasters in a city where poverty, household fires and…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies in South Africa in August “by mutual agreement”, South Africa’s presidency said on Wednesday.…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after meeting African leaders in Kyiv that peace talks with Russia would be possible only after Moscow withdraws its forces from occupied Ukrainian territory. Zelenskiy…
A meeting of foreign ministers from the BRICS countries in South Africa on Thursday was overshadowed by questions about whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would be arrested if he attended…
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a panel to investigate U.S. allegations that a Russian ship had collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town last year, the…
Calls for unity dominated Thursday’s 60th anniversary celebrations for the continent-wide organization preceding the African Union (AU) that represented 55 member states. But critics say the AU has become a…
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) said on Monday that its army chief, Lawrence Mbatha, was in Moscow for a bilateral meeting, where he will visit Russian military academies…
South Africa’s foreign ministry summoned the U.S. Ambassador, Reuben Brigety, to a meeting Friday over allegations he made a day earlier that the country had provided arms and ammunition to…
The US ambassador to South Africa on Thursday accused the South African government of delivering arms and ammunition to a sanctioned Russian cargo vessel late last year, local media said.…
Biden’s Foreign Policy on Africa, No News to Tell Over the past few weeks, the Biden Administration has had a flurry of overseas diplomatic activity in Africa. First, the African visit…
US Policy in Africa and the Moroccan Model Last year, the Biden Administration has stated its foreign policy goals in sub-Saharan Africa. It is in four parts: 1) to foster…