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President Donald Trump’s administration is considering more than doubling an annual refugee limit to bring more white South Africans into the ​U.S., according to three people familiar with the matter.  Trump, a Republican, paused refugee admissions from around the world when he took office in January 2025. Weeks later, ‌he issued an executive order prioritizing the resettlement of …

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South Africa’s top police official was suspended by the president on Thursday after he was charged with breaking finance laws related to an allegedly corrupt police contract.  Fannie Masemola appeared in court on Tuesday and was set to return alongside 12 other senior police officers suspected of fraud, corruption and money laundering in connection with the contract, which was allegedly awarded unlawfully …

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Pope Leo XIV told inmates at one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious prisons on Wednesday that they are not alone, as he delivered a message of hope during a visit that drew attention to prison conditions, human rights abuses and injustices that campaigners have denounced for years here.  Leo’s visit to the prison in the Central African port city of Bata …

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Pope Leo has debuted a new, forceful speaking style on his four-nation Africa tour this week, issuing sharp denunciations of war and ​inequality that have sparked repeated attacks on the pontiff from U.S. President Donald Trump.  The change in rhetoric reflects Leo’s growing concern with the direction ‌of global leadership, experts said, after he maintained a relatively low profile for a pope during …

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Julius Malema, a polarizing figure in South African politics, ​faces an uncertain political future after being sentenced to five years prison on Thursday following his conviction for firing an assault rifle ‌in public during a 2018 rally.  Malema, founder and leader of the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters party, built his platform around advocating for the rights of South Africans …

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Prominent Beninese activist Kemi Seba has been arrested in South Africa for alleged conspiracy to commit a crime, police said Thursday, as he faces extradition to Benin where he is wanted for “inciting rebellion” following last year’s failed coup there.   Seba, whose birth name is Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, was arrested alongside his son during a sting operation in Pretoria, South Africa’s capital, …

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed veteran politician Roelf Meyer as the country’s ambassador to the United States in a move widely seen as an effort to ease diplomatic tensions between the two nations.  Meyer was minister of defense from 1991 to 1992 under the white minority government of former President F.W. De Klerk’s National Party. He later …

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