For world leaders an invitation to the Oval Office used to be a coveted prize. Under Donald Trump it’s become a ticket to a brutal political ambush.South African President Cyril Ramaphosa became the latest victim in a long line that started with Trump’s notorious row with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in February.Trump has turned what were …
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A Chadian judge on Wednesday ordered former prime minister and opposition leader Succes Masra placed in detention, nearly a week after his arrest on suspicion of inciting hatred, his lawyers said.Masra faced off against President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno in a presidential election last year. While the official result gave him 18 percent of the …
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US President Donald Trump brandished a stack of printed articles at the White House Wednesday that he claimed documented a genocide taking place against white people in South Africa.Mixed into the deck of papers he unveiled before South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa, however, was a months-old blog post featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic …
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Kenya has admitted to assisting in the kidnapping of a Ugandan opposition leader on its soil last year, prompting his lawyer to accuse Nairobi of acting like a “rogue state.”Kizza Besigye, 68, who appeared in court for the latest hearing of his treason trial on Wednesday, was abducted by armed men in the heart of the …
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Algeria and France are currently experiencing their worst crisis since the former French colony won independence in 1962, said the author of a landmark report on France’s legacy in the north African nation.It will take painstaking work, including on historical grievances, to restore trust, Benjamin Stora, one of the world’s leading experts on French-Algerian history, …
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Two of South Africa’s top golfers and its richest businessman are in the delegation meeting US President Donald Trump Wednesday in a bid to mend tattered bilateral ties, the presidency said.President Cyril Ramaphosa will be joined by four cabinet ministers at the Washington talks that South Africa hopes will reset relations and save trade with …
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South Africa’s competition authority announced Wednesday it had approved the buyout of Africa’s largest pay TV enterprise MultiChoice by France’s Canal+, which wants to expand its footprint on the continent.The merger, which has been in the works for nearly a year, needs the final go-ahead from the commission’s Competition Tribunal, it said in a statement. Canal+ …
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Tanzanian authorities have detained a leading Kenyan activist and a Ugandan journalist who tried to attend an opposition leader’s treason trial, a rights group said Tuesday.Amnesty International said that Boniface Mwangi — a prominent campaigner against corruption and police violence in Kenya — and Ugandan journalist Agatha Atuhaire were being held in “secret” after being …
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At a raucous comedy night in Johannesburg, no comedian could avoid cracking a joke about the chartered flight that, exactly a week earlier, took about 50 white South Africans to the United States for “refugee” resettlement.Spotting a middle-aged white couple seated in the diverse audience, 31-year-old comedian Tsitsi Chiumya pulled a theatrically shocked face.”White people! …
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Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently laying it down on a pillow and wrapping it in dozens of layers of special paper.The artefact is a “Benin Bronze”, a priceless cultural object looted from modern-day Nigeria more than 120 years ago, now being removed …
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