Tag: Africas
In Pretoria, Iran hopes for South Africa’s support for BRICS membership
In South Africa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Naledi Pandor, received yesterday, Thursday August 10, her Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. Tehran has embarked on a diplomatic offensive to try to…
The Wagner company, which started the rebellion, has become rich from Africa’s natural resources and brutal killing – this is how the mercenary army makes money
During the Midsummer weekend, we closely followed what Wagner was doing in Russia and how the rebellion he started was progressing. However, the group’s handprint can be seen most strongly…
War in Ukraine: South Africa’s “suspicious” neutrality
Usually, Vladimir Putin does not miss the summit of the Brics for anything in the world. Even less since his exclusion from the G8 in 2014, after the annexation of…
South Africa’s headache – urged to arrest Putin on visit
Working on a plan to avoid arresting the Russian president Published: Just now In March, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin. If he goes to the summit in…
President Niinistö met South Africa’s Ramaphosa in Pretoria – the country is considering arresting Putin at the BRICS meeting
President Sauli Niinistö is visiting South Africa and Namibia this week. Representatives of the Finnish business world are also traveling with Niinistö. President Sauli Niinistö started a two-day state visit…
US Vice President Kamala Harris ‘very excited about Africa’s future’
Kamala Harris arrived this Sunday March 26 in Accra. The American vice-president begins a tour of the continent until April 2, with first a three-day stopover in Ghana, before leaving…
How climate change is reinvigorating Africa’s cholera outbreak
The African Public Health Agenda Conference, organized by the NGO Amref Health Africa and Africa CDC, the health agency of the African Union, was held in Rwanda from March 5-8.…
In the shadow of big problems – election day in Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria
The election is taking place in the shadow of a host of problems that Nigeria is grappling with. According to public statistics, every third person is unemployed, inflation is at…
Death of Frene Ginwala, speaker of South Africa’s first democratically elected assembly
In South Africa, the generation that brought down apartheid is slowly dying out. This Friday, January 13, it is Frene Ginwala who died. This militant of the African National Congress…
Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected as South Africa’s leader
Now it is clear that Cyril Ramaphosa, 70, remains as leader of South Africa’s ruling party ANC – and thus as the country’s president. This despite a long period of…