On Monday, March 3rd, President Donald Trump suspended all U.S. military aid to Ukraine, putting over $1 billion in security assistance on hold. This follows a tense White House meeting...
Read morePresident Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance clashed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the ongoing war with Russia and U.S. support for Kyiv in a recent meeting. The...
Read moreDana Brown, Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Mission to South Africa, will retire from the Foreign Service in March after 27 years. The U.S. Embassy in Pretoria confirmed her departure,...
Read moreSouth Africa opened its first G20 foreign ministers’ meeting on Thursday, February 20th, calling for multilateral cooperation to address global crises. However, the absence of U.S. Secretary of State Marco...
Read moreMuhsin Hendricks, known as the world’s first openly gay imam, was shot dead in Gqeberha, South Africa, on Saturday, February 15th. Hendricks, 57, was traveling in a car when two...
Read moreAt the 26th Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, February 12th, the United States announced it would no longer support NATO membership for Ukraine, a return to...
Read moreThe United States announced a partial resumption of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in South Africa on Monday, February 10th, following a limited waiver granted by Secretary...
Read moreThe city of Nyabibwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was captured by members of the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group on Wednesday, February 5th, despite reports of an...
Read morePresident Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday, February 7th, halting financial aid to South Africa and introducing a program to resettle white Afrikaners as refugees. The order, which...
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