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Dozens of South African men die from circumcision procedures during initiation ceremonies
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (382+ words) JOHANNESBURG " At least 41 young men have died as a result of circumcision procedures as part of traditional initiation activities in South Africa in November and December, authorities said Tuesday. Traditional initiation is a rite of passage into manhood for young…...
Trumpâs HIV prevention plan shuts out South Africa â the nation most affected
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (754+ words) Amid steep cuts to U.S. foreign assistance, the Trump administration is touting a new plan to provide a powerful HIV prevention drug to countries most affected by the disease in an ambitious push to end the spread of the virus that…...
Trump says he’s barring South Africa from participating in next year’s G20 summit near Miami
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (450+ words) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. " President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its…...
South Africa investigates origins of plane that arrived with more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (931+ words) JOHANNESBURG " South Africa's intelligence services are investigating who was behind a chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg with more than 150 Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza who did not have proper travel documents and were held onboard on the tarmac for around…...
Opinion: Tradeswomen build nations
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (257+ words) Several dozen Alaska women traveled to the Tradeswomen Build Nations Conference in September. We're excited both to strategize about strengthening our industry " construction " and to celebrate progress in supporting families with a new maternity leave benefit funded by the Laborers…...
Military colonel announces that armed forces are taking control in Madagascar
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (727+ words) ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar " A colonel in an elite military unit in Madagascar said Tuesday the armed forces are taking power in the Indian Ocean nation. His announcement came almost immediately after parliament voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina, who has fled…...
‘How did you get here?’: Large elephant seal is found lumbering along a South African street
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (249+ words) CAPE TOWN, South Africa " A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa early Tuesday, surprising residents and inspiring a rescue effort to get him back to…...
US deports migrants from Jamaica, Cuba and other countries to small African kingdom of Eswatini
8+ mon, 3+ day ago (918+ words) CAPE TOWN, South Africa " The United States sent five migrants it describes as "barbaric" criminals to the African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration's largely secretive third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday....
Former Alaska priest kidnapped in Nigeria is still alive, Fairbanks diocese says
8+ mon, 22+ hour ago (236+ words) The Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks received news this week that the Rev. Alphonsus Afina is still alive after he was ambushed and abducted by Boko Haram on June 2. Afina served as a priest in Alaska from 2017 to 2024. The Rev. Robert…...
Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. Some white Afrikaner farmers reject that.
10+ mon, 10+ hour ago (841+ words) BOTHAVILLE, South Africa " Days before South Africa's president meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, Afrikaner farmers at the center of an extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy roamed a memorial to farm attacks in their country's agricultural heartland, some…...