South Africa Faces a Diplomatic Tightrope on Iran
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: South Africa treads a fine diplomatic line after the United States strikes Iran, Nigeria faces a Boko Haram resurgence in...
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West Africa: ECOWAS fights for survival under new leadership
It is not exactly the end of a proverbial era: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu led the for just under two years as its rotating chairman. But in that short period,...
Township mechanics in South Africa unite to turbocharge their small businesses
BRAKPAN, South Africa (AP) — Themba Maseko quickly wipes oil and grease off his hands with a rag as he breaks away from repairing one car to assist another customer...
How Europe is leading efforts to digitize and save our ocean
A clear message flowed through the halls of the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice last week: the ocean is in crisis. The ocean covers over 70 percent...
Trump’s Iran bombing tests the limits of British influence
LONDON — Keir Starmer has tried desperately to stay on the right side of Donald Trump. It seemed to count for little when the U.S. bombed Iran. Since entering office...
These former USAID staff are working to match donors to urgent, lifesaving aid projects that had their funding slashed
In a warehouse in northeast Nigeria, a nonprofit’s stocks of food to treat malnourished children and pregnant women are running low. The organization, Action Against Hunger (ACF), is running a...
Armed rebels take control of Heineken facilities in DR Congo’s war-hit east
Heineken has lost operational control and withdrawn its staff from its facilities in conflict-affected areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Dutch brewer said on Friday. The beverages giant...
Trump and Rubio secure Rwanda-Congo peace treaty amid Pakistan’s Nobel Prize nomination
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump announced on Friday he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had secured a “wonderful” treaty between Rwanda and Congo,...
UNHCR reports record displacement in West and Central Africa
About 12.7 million are in West and Central Africa, according to the UN Refugee Agency “From conflict to climate shocks, protection risks are rising — particularly for women and children,...
70 rhinos reared at controversial captive breeding farm set free in Rwanda
But he ran out of money, and with the horn trade still banned under international law, he put the rhinos up for sale in 2023. He told Agence France-Presse (AFP)...
