Uhuru Kenyatta, former President of Kenya, looks at the result board at the National Results Operation Centre of the Electoral Commission of South Africa, which serves as an operational hub where results of the national election are displayed, in Midrand, South Africa, May 30, 2024. The South African elections were held in a peaceful environment, said African Union Election Observation …
PRETORIA, South Africa — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa have called for increased cooperation to bring peace to conflict-ridden regions in Africa, at the start of the Kenyan leader’s two-day state visit to South Africa. The two leaders said they would like to see trade between South Africa and Kenya being more balanced. “We would …
UNITED NATIONS — One by one, South Africa’s former president listed African countries Tuesday where the failure to deal with diversity was a root cause of conflict, from the Biafran war in Nigeria in the late 1960s to the current clashes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. He pointed to the 2004 report of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission “which …
The announcement by US President Donald Trump of an apparent thaw in relations – “normalisation” in the current parlance – between Israel and another country, this time Sudan, has been hailed by some as highly significant and proof of the American president’s deal-making prowess. Significant, because Khartoum was the site of the 1967 Arab League summit which adopted “The Three …