Zambia is accusing the United States of tying a $2 billion deal for critical health assistance to access to the southern African nation’s rich mineral assets, and calling the outgoing U.S. ambassador’s allegations of corruption “mischievous” and “undiplomatic.”  The comments by Zambia’s foreign affairs minister, Mulambo Haimbe, on Monday brought into the open simmering tensions over President Donald Trump’s “America First” strategy, which is …

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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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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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