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South Africa Summons New US Ambassador Over Criticism as Rift Deepens
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (493+ words) MICHELLE GUMEDE and GERALD IMRAY Wednesday, 11 March 2026 02:01 PM EDT The new U.S. ambassador to South Africa has been summoned to explain his criticism, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday, as a diplomatic rift continues over foreign policy that the Trump administration…...
Smithsonian to Return Slave Ship Timber to South Africa
9+ hour, 21+ min ago (916+ words) GARY FIELDS, RIVER ZHANG and JACQUELYN MARTIN Thursday, 12 March 2026 07:22 AM EDT A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month,…...
More Ghanaians Are Wearing a Cultural Outfit after Their President Was Mocked
2+ week, 3+ day ago (585+ words) EDWARD ACQUAH Monday, 23 February 2026 02:00 AM EST More Ghanaians are wearing the colorful traditional outfit with pride in a trend triggered by online mockery. Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama in early February visited Zambia wearing a fugu garment, prompting ridicule from…...
5 Miners Are Trapped Deep Underground after a Mudslide at a South African Diamond Mine
3+ week, 12+ hour ago (208+ words) Thursday, 19 February 2026 04:00 AM EST The miners have been trapped since the early hours of Tuesday, according to the Congress of South African Trade Unions " an alliance of labor unions that includes the main mineworkers union. The congress said the miners…...
Trump Warns UK: Don't Give Away Diego Garcia
3+ week, 1+ day ago (462+ words) By Charlie McCarthy "|" Wednesday, 18 February 2026 02:44 PM EST President Donald Trump urged British Prime Minister Keir Starmer not to "give away""the strategically vital island of Diego Garcia, warning that a proposed 100-year lease agreement could weaken Western security at a…...
Sweden Gives $111 Million Energy Aid to Ukraine
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (67+ words) Sweden's government said on Thursday it will provide aid to Ukraine's energy system worth 1 billion Swedish crowns ($111.11 million). ($1 = 8.9997 Swedish crowns)" Sweden Gives $111 Million Energy Aid to Ukraine Thursday, 05 February 2026 08:44 AM EST Sweden's government said on Thursday it will provide aid…...
NYC Health Staff Group Accuses Israel of Genocide
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (293+ words) By Solange Reyner "|" Wednesday, 04 February 2026 05:37 PM EST Some staffers with New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have formed a "Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group" that accuses Israel of committing genocide, reported the New York Post....
Russian Military Cargo Plane Lands at Cuban Air Base
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (393+ words) By Nicole Weatherholtz "|" Monday, 02 February 2026 09:56 AM EST A Russian cargo aircraft that previously transported air defense systems to Venezuela arrived late Sunday at a military airfield near Havana, Cuba, according to flight records reviewed by Defense News. According to the…...
South Africa Declares Israel's Deputy Ambassador Persona Non Grata, Orders Him to Leave Country | Newsmax.com
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (264+ words) Friday, 30 January 2026 08:00 AM EST The South African Foreign Ministry said that it was expelling Ariel Seidman, the charge d'affaires at the embassy, because of repeated official Israeli social media posts that insulted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. The ministry also…...
11 Dead in Minibus and Truck Collision in South Africa Days after a Similar Crash Killed 14 Children
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (220+ words) Thursday, 29 January 2026 06:00 AM EST Thursday's crash happened near the city of Durban in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province. Provincial transport department official Siboniso Duma said in a statement that 11 people including a schoolchild died at the scene, although that was according…...