Africa

The Iran ties of MTN, the telecommunications firm chaired by South Africa’s new envoy to the U.S., Mcebisi Jonas, could have damaging reputational effects on Meta and other firms as MTN comes under scrutiny.

South African police on Tuesday rescued American pastor Josh Sullivan from the gang of armed men who kidnapped him last week.

Newly-appointed South African envoy to the U.S., Mcebisi Jonas, reportedly has ties to Iran through MTN, a South African telecommunications company that Jonas chairs, and that has significant investments in Iran.

South Africa appointed former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as a special envoy to the United States on Monday, ostensibly to improve frayed relations between the two countries.

Details of a massacre of dozens of Christians in the restive Middle Belt of Nigeria, believed to have occurred at the hands of genocidal Fulani jihadists, began surfacing over the weekend as the nation marks the holiest season in Christianity and the anniversary of one of the most abhorrent acts of Islamic terrorism in the nation’s modern history.

The kidnapping epidemic that has plagued South Africa this decade may have hit a new criminal low when an American pastor was nabbed at gunpoint while he was preaching at a Baptist church in Motherwell, outside the coastal city of Gqeberha.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday repatriated three Americans accused of participating in a failed coup attempt against President Felix Tshisekedi in May 2024. 

The United Nations marked Monday, April 7 as the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which a million men, women, and children from the Tutsi tribe were slaughtered, along with members of the rival Hutu tribe who spoke out against the bloodbath. 

Israel condemned the use of children carrying mock AK-47s in a pro-Palestinian march in Cape Town, South Africa, last week, calling it a form of “child abuse” on Monday.

The South African government said Monday that it will never give up its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) — as reports emerged of children parading with mock AK-47s in anti-Israel protests in Cape Town.

The government of Lesotho is organizing a delegation to Washington to speak with President Donald Trump as soon as possible regarding the imposition of a 50 percent tariff on its exports, local media confirmed on Friday.

South Africa’s coalition government is near collapse, as that country struggles to deal with internal tensions and the challenge posed by U.S. President Donald Trump, who broke an international taboo by criticizing the country openly.

The highest percentage tariff on the list of those released by the White House on Wednesday, intended to help balance America’s trade with the world, was imposed on the small African nation of Lesotho.

President Donald Trump criticized South Africa again on Wednesday — hours after the South African government claimed that it had clarified “misconceptions” about the country in meetings with senior White House officials.

Nigerian boxer Gabriel Oluwasegun Olanrewaju, 40, collapsed and died suddenly during a bout at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra, Ghana.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wrote a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump last week offering the United States exclusive control of some of the nation’s airbases and ports, which would greatly improve America’s military presence in the region.

South Africa’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, has refused to allow an appeal of a lower court’s decision that the phrase “Kill the Boer,” referring to Afrikaners and farmers, was not hate speech or incitement under the law.

Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), declared the capital of Khartoum has been recaptured from insurgents.

A panel of experts testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Chinese companies mining for “green” energy minerals throughout Africa – particularly in resource-rich countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are creating a “catastrophic and unacceptable” situation for locals.

Police raids in six states against a group authorities say “is part of nternational network aiming to overthrow the government in Eritrea.”

A Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia suffered an accident in mid-February that dumped about fifty million liters of acid waste into the local water table, creating both an environmental disaster and a diplomatic rupture between Zambia and China.

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi wrote a letter to President Donald Trump in which he offered extensive mineral rights to the U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund in exchange for military assistance against the Rwanda-backed insurgent group M23.

The University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa is launching a frantic investigation into an alleged leak after Breitbart News reported that private donations had plummeted by two-thirds after the institution boycotted Israel.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has slammed the Trump administration’s decision to expel South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, calling it a “racist” and “Islamophobic” act of retaliation for his country’s stance against Israel.

The University of Cape Town (UCT), once one of South Africa’s most widely-respected academic institutions, has decided to preserve its boycott of Israeli universities despite losing nearly two-thirds of donor funding since doing so.

South African Ambassador Embrahim Rasool is “no longer welcome” in the U.S. after telling participants in a foreign policy seminar that President Donald Trump is leading a white supremacist movement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Friday.

The Trump administration has ejected South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool out of the country, declaring him persona non grata after he gave a lecture claiming that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist leader.

South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool told participants in a foreign policy seminar Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump is leading a white supremacist movement in America and around the world.

A jury in a U.K. court on Thursday convicted a United Nations judge of forcing a young woman to work as a slave after tricking her into coming to the country.

The head of the women’s wing of a secularist opposition party in India suggested in commemoration of International Women’s Day that the country should offer impunity to all women for one murder in response to the widespread rape of girls and women in the country.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters in Beijing on Friday that his government will step up investment, financial assistance, and diplomatic outreach to Africa, seemingly seeking to exploit an opening created by reduced foreign aid under President Donald Trump, and a joke Trump told earlier this week that has rubbed some Africans the wrong way.

President Donald Trump and entrepreneur Elon Musk both responded to South Africa’s latest diplomatic provocations on Friday, with both slamming the country’s racially discriminatory laws and practices.

Ugandan High Court Judge Lydia Mugambe, who sits on a United Nations criminal tribunal, made her first appearance in British court on Thursday to face charges of tricking a young Ugandan woman into serving as her slave while she studied at Oxford.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lejone Mpotjoane of Lesotho said his nation would be “happy” to invite President Donald Trump to visit.