Reuters By Asad el MalikMay 22, 2025 In what was expected to be a delicate and possibly combustible meeting, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and U.S. President Donald Trump came face to face in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 2025. The highly

Image : JAM STA ROSA/AFP By Job Allan Wefwafwa and Bob Wekesa On his first day in office, January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order pausing US development assistance for 90 days. This was meant to allow for

By Kabaso Kabwe, PhD. Global health in 2025 is facing monumental changes as Africa deals with the ramifications offoundational U.S. policy changes of the Donald J. Trump administration. The withdrawal of the U.S.from the World Health Organisation (WHO), where it is

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Asad el Malik, PhD On February 2, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that his administration would halt all future U.S. assistance to South Africa, citing concerns over the country’s land expropriation policies. The decision, which has already triggered a decline

When a new law banning TikTok in the US came into effect on 19 January 2025, the popularapp stopped working across the country. While we expected diplomatic relations between theUS and China to be the most affected, what is observable

We’re excited to introduce the Africa-US Smart Cities Lab Bulletin 2024, a comprehensive publication that delves into the dynamic world of smart and sustainable city development across Africa and the United States. The bulletin, produced by the African Centre for the

This talk was given by Dr. Larry Shore at the Luthuli Museum on August 20th, 2024, on the occasion of the museum's 20th anniversary. Top: Albert Luthuli Bottom Left: Martin Luther King Jr. Bottom Right: Robert Kennedy America has always had a

Source: https://www.konecentennialfoundation.org/westbury-youth-centre By Blair M. Proctor, PhD Approaching thirty years of the post-Apartheid era (2024), the predominantly Coloured community of Westbury continues to wrestle with the identity-formation of “not being Black enough and White enough.”[1] Geographically, Westbury is a township located within

Earth globe under the extreme heat of the sun, North America burning into flame, destroyed by fire, conceptual illustration of global warming, temperature increase disaster, over heating of the world in climate change By Valerie Buthelezi Between January and July of 2024,