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Police flood Harare’s streets in anticipation of protests on the eve of the Southern African Development Community meeting. “South Africa’s silence … appears paradoxical,” said Tinashe Sithole, a political science lecturer at the University of Johannesburg. But “prioritising regional stability and diplomatic ties … risks validating claims of ANC complicity and undermining South Africa’s moral authority on human rights,” Sithole …
For years, AU officials have refrained from addressing atrocities in Ethiopia. The only to express concern was Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame who had asked the international community to prioritise the Tigray war in early 2021.” No scrutiny Formally established in 2002, the AU’s precursor, the Organisation for African Unity was founded in Addis Ababa in 1963 to lobby for the …
Foreign Correspondent Joe Barnes begins by reporting on the overnight strikes on southern Ukraine. Francis also spoke about the news that Vladimir Putin has called off his planned visit to South Africa to attend the BRICS summit next month: Months ago the ICC arrest warrant for Putin was dismissed by some as an irrelevance, but we have again seen an …
