‘I will wear my persona non grata as a badge of dignity,’ expelled South African ambassador to US says as he returns home
“The supremacist assault on incumbency, we see it in the domestic politics of the USA, the MAGA movement, the Make America Great Again movement, as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48 per cent white,” Rasool said in the talk.
Sudanese ‘alternative’ government formed in Kenya preparing to grab diplomatic legitimacy
Politician Ibrahim al-Mirghani, another backer, said the new government would go to the United Nations and other forums to block the army’s participation.
Kenyan flower farmers explore Middle East markets as invasive bugs and toxic pesticides hurt exports to Europe
Nationally, the flower industry employs half a million people, according to a Central Bank of Kenya 2021 report, and is estimated by the National Bureau of Statistics to be worth over $800 million. Roses make up about 66 per cents of cut flower exports, at an estimated value of about $300 million.
EU cut out as US and Russia set to meet in Saudi Arabia to start talks to end the war in Ukraine
Trump, who took office on January 20, has repeatedly vowed to swiftly end the Ukraine war. He made separate phone calls to Putin and Zelenskiy on Wednesday, leaving Washington’s European allies alarmed that they will be cut out of any peace process.
Saudi Arabia spearheads Arab scramble for alternative options to Trump’s Gaza plan
The latest Egyptian proposal involves forming a national Palestinian committee to govern Gaza without Hamas involvement, international participation in reconstruction without displacing Palestinians abroad, and movement towards a two-state solution, three Egyptian security sources said.
Trump cuts funding for South Africa citing land policy and Pretoria’s war case against Israel
US President Donald Trump holds a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the East Room at the White House in Washington, US, on February 7, 2025. Credit: Reuters
Trump’s expansionist rhetoric meets with resistance in ME where he wants US to take over Gaza Strip
The US taking a direct stake in Gaza would run counter to long-time policy in Washington and for much of the international community, which has held that Gaza would be part of a future Palestinian state that includes the occupied West Bank.
Spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims whose riches enabled horse racing glory, The Aga Khan, dies at 88
The Aga Khan set up the Aga Khan Development Network in 1967. The group of international development agencies employs 80,000 people helping to build schools and hospitals and providing electricity for millions of people in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia.
Risk of pandemics explosion worldwide rises as Trump orders CDC to stop working with WHO
President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the US from WHO, but that did not take immediate effect. Leaving WHO requires the approval of Congress and that the US meets its financial obligations for the current fiscal year. The US also must provide a one-year notice.
Analysts: M23 capture of Goma in eastern Congo likely to open floodgates for illicit gold exports to Dubai via Rwanda and Kenya
A lightning advance in Congo’s mineral-rich eastern borderlands is set to boost the M23 rebellion’s illegal mining revenues, with analysts predicting a further surge in illicit trade in minerals including coltan and gold through neighbouring Rwanda. The Rwanda-backed insurgency entered Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s largest city, this week,...
