South African citrus farmers fear Trump tariffs will erase 35,000 jobs, wobble entire towns
The group said the tariffs were due to come into effect the same week the first citrus fruit of the South African season was being packed to be exported to the US It said it was urgently calling on the South African government to prioritize negotiations with the US on tariff reductions or exemptions on citrus.
Save the Children warns Haiti humanitarian crisis worsening as violence escalates
On Thursday, Fritz Alphonse Jean, the current head of the transition council, announced that the council was teaming up to tackle gangs with members of an armed paramilitary group who once tried to overthrow the government, in a sign of authorities’ increasing desperation to bring violence under control.
Kenya hopes smaller Trump tariff blow vis-à-vis rivals will give it an edge in nascent global trade war
Imports from the East African nation, which sent goods worth $737 million to the United States last year, will be charged the minimum 10 per cent compared with 46 per cent for Vietnam, 44 per cent for Sri Lanka and 37 per cent for Bangladesh.
US intelligence agency’s classified analysis offers detailed scientific view that Covid came from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology
The DIA has not publicly recognised the analysis as its official position on the matter. But, unlike other federal assessments that provide few details to back up their findings that Covid-19 likely emerged from a lab, the DIA assessment offers the most detailed US agency scientific analysis made public to date supporting why such a conclusion was drawn.
South Sudan faults revocation of US visas as based on case of mistaken nationality
South Sudan’s Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth said on Monday that the US was “attempting to find faults with the tense situation” in the country because no sovereign nation would accept foreign deportees.
Powerful Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq ready to disarm to avert deadly US airstrikes
Izzat al-Shahbndar, a senior Shi’ite Muslim politician close to Iraq’s governing alliance, says discussions between Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and several militia leaders were “very advanced”, and the groups were inclined to comply with US calls for disarmament.
Black comedian, Amber Ruffin, shut out of White House correspondents annual event after angering Trump’s team
An annual event where journalists often invite entertainers as guests, the dinner has featured comics such as Stephen Colbert, Colin Jost and Trevor Noah. Memorably, in 2011, it had as a guest a stone-faced Donald Trump, former star of The Apprentice, listening to jokes told by President Barack Obama at his expense.
Columnist Eugene Robinson exits Washington Post after 35 years, cites owner Bezos’ new restrictive editorial policy
In a message on X Thursday, Robinson said that he was “retiring from my longtime journalistic home but not from journalism” and would keep followers informed of his next move. Robinson appears regularly as a commentator on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
US slams doors on South Sudanese as it revokes all visas while drums of civil war beat at home
Five years of civil war killed hundreds of thousands of people. A peace deal reached in 2018 has been fragile and not fully implemented, to the frustration of the US and other international backers. Notably, South Sudan still hasn’t held a long-delayed presidential election, and Kiir remains in power.
Hundreds of protesters in European cities slam US President Trump and his advisor Elon Musk
In the French capital of Paris, about 200 people, mostly American, gathered on the Place de la République to protest against Trump. Some gave speeches to denounce the president, with protesters waving banners ranging from “Resist Tyrant”, “Rule of Law” “Feminists for Freedom not fascism” and “Save Democracy”.
