Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping all aid to South Africa and offering refugee status to white South Africans. The order decried “government-sponsored race ...

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would like to have conversations with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping about imposing limits on their nuclear ...

President Trump said China and Russia should halve their military spending and limit nuclear weapons. You first, China said. By David Pierson Reporting from Hong Kong China said Friday that the ...

Khaleda Zia, BNP chairperson, has been acquitted in the Niko graft case by a Dhaka court, following other corruption case acquittals. This clears her to participate in upcoming elections. The case ...

Paramount Maatla vehicles being assembled. South Africa’s long struggling defence industry has, in recent years, experienced somewhat of a revival. The National Conventional Arms Control Committee’s ...

A new land reform law is at the centre of Donald Trump’s aid freeze on South Africa. What does it actually do? Trump’s freeze on aid to South Africa caps years of growing tension over ...

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has advised of the return of heavy showers across parts of South Africa this week. The Ministry of Employment and Labour has welcomed the election of South ...

UNITED Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the international community to unite in efforts to stop the flow of weapons fueling violence in Africa. He made the remarks in Addis ...

M23 rebels have advanced into the centre of Bukavu, South Kivu’s capital, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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