06.05.2025 The Private Military Company (PMC) Wagner has officially announced the completion of its mission in Mali. The company operated in the country for 3.5 years. During this time, the fighters destroyed “thousands of militants and their commanders”, helping the Malian armed forces regain control over all regional centers of the country. BIG: Russia's Wagner…
Category: Africa
Trump-Ramaphosa: “Kill the Boer!”
Brussels 21.05.2025 The South African Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development Mzwanele Nyhontso said the South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa’s meeting in the Oval Office was “uncomfortable” but that the president handled it well. “It was uncomfortable to watch,” Nyhontso said while commenting the event to the media. Ramaphosa had to explain to Trump…
SA: Trump grants asylum to farmers
Brussels 12.05.2025 The white South Africans have been granted refugee status in the United States by the Trump administration. The group of 59 people arrived at Washington Dulles airport in Virginia on Monday, May 12, according to a State Department official said. (Image above: illustration) Trump said during a news conference at the White House…
Horn of Africa tensions
Brussels 07.04.2025 The threat of war is looming over the Horn of Africa, while the observers warning of a return to fighting in Tigray, which could produce domino effect, causing conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Dr Abel Abate Demissie from Chatham House writes. Ethiopia’s ambition to secure Red Sea access, Eritrea’s interference in Ethiopia’s internal…
Ethiopia: EU stands by Pretoria agreement
Brussels 28.03.2025 The EU reiterates its calls for the full implementation of the Pretoria agreement that ended the conflict between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray rebels in 2022. Nowadays despite the peace agreement, signed in Pretoria, South Africa, in 2022 between the Government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) ending the…
S.Sudan: EU delegation stays in spite of risks
Brussels 24.03.2025 In spite of the rapidly degrading security situation in South Sudan, which is “once again on the brink of civil war”, the EU Delegation in the capital Juba stays put. The country has been plagued by political instability and violence since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. Regardless the context, Ambassador, Head…
SA Ambassador expelled from Washington D.C.
Brussels 15.03.2025 South Africa’s expelled Ambassador to the United States, H.E. Ebrahim Rasool, has been given 72 hours to leave the U.S. Chrispin Phiri, spokesperson for International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola, confirmed to News24 that Pretoria was making arrangements for his return. Once in South Africa, he will be expected to debrief to…
SA: refugees welcome to USA
Brussels 08.03.2025 The South African government said it will not engage in “counterproductive megaphone diplomacy” following the newest social media post by U.S. President Trump reiterating his position on confiscating land, and relevant law. Trump extended his invitation to relocate those seeking “to flee [South Africa] for reasons of safety” to all farmers and offered…
EU-Rwanda: reluctant to freeze MoU
Brussels 25.02.2025 The European Commission stays reluctant to freeze the Memorandum of Understanding on Sustainable Raw Materials Value Chains (MoU). The slow motion reaction of the EU raises brows of human rights defenders in Europe, and worldwide, while observing the devastating events in North Kivu, DRC, where already seven thousand people were killed as a…
EU: Rwanda Memorandum under review
Brussels 24.02.2025 During the Foreign ministers Council the EU top diplomats discussed the escalation of the conflict in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, however no conclusions have been adopted on the matter. “The situation is very grave, and it is on the brink of a regional conflict” said the EU High Representative Kaja Kallas…
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