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US President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Africa

US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans

President Donald Trump's February executive order establishing the program specified that it was for "Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination,"...

Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi's high representative Sumbu Sita Mambu, Qatar's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi and Benjamin Mbonimpa, who heads the M23 delegation to Doha attend a signing ceremony of a declaration of principles to end fighting in eastern Congo between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group, in Doha, Qatar, July 19, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Imad Creidi

Africa

Congo, M23 rebels pledge in Qatar to reach peace deal next month

Members of the M23 rebel group ride on a pickup truck as they leave their position for patrols amid conflict between them and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, January 29, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Africa

Congo, M23 rebels to sign declaration of principles to end fighting

A drone view shows the beach front ahead of the G20 finance meeting in Durban, South Africa, July 15, 2025. REUTERS/Rogan Ward

Africa

Issues on the agenda at the G20 finance meeting in South Africa

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43 years in power, world's oldest president eyes eighth term at age 92

Israeli-American businessman Moti Kahana holds a flag during a mission to evacuate 200 Jews in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, March, 2022, in this handout picture released to Reuters July 10, 2025. Photo: GDC Inc./Handout via REUTERS

Africa

How a US mission to push a Trump deal in Congo unravelled

Members of the M23 rebel group stand guard as people attend a rally addressed by Corneille Nangaa, Congolese rebel leader and coordinator of the AFC-M23 movement, in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo February 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Victoire Mukenge/File Photo

Africa

Rwanda exercises command and control over M23 rebels: UN experts

US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance meet Democratic Republic of the Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington DC, June 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ken Cedeno

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Rwanda, Congo sign peace deal in US to end fighting, attract investment

A Panama sign is seen at a photographic parador with the skyline of the city in the background, in Panama City, Panama October 4, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Erick Marciscano/File Photo

Africa

Panama deems autonomy initiative only solution to settle Sahara regional dispute

Members of the M23 rebel group stand guard as people attend a rally addressed by Corneille Nangaa, Congolese rebel leader and coordinator of the AFC-M23 movement, in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo February 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Victoire Mukenge/File Photo

Africa

Rwanda-backed rebels in Congo executed civilians: Human Rights Watch

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy walks on the day of the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London, Britain, March 10, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Isabel Infantes/File Photo

Africa

Sudan is world's 'worst humanitarian catastrophe': British FM

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy walks on the day of the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London, Britain, March 10, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Isabel Infantes/File Photo

Africa

UK backs Morocco's autonomy plan for Moroccan Sahara: Lammy

Kenyan Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi attends the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan November 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Aziz Karimov/File Photo

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Kenya backs Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara: joint statement