USA Afrik24 – United States President Donald Trump’s administration said it will admit an additional 10,000 white South Africans to the country as refugees this year. In a document dated 21 May, it said people of Afrikaner ethnicity are facing an unspecified “emergency refugee situation”.
Atlantic Afrik24 – Tragedy has struck a cruise vessel in the Atlantic as an outbreak of respiratory illness has claimed two lives, including an active-duty US soldier. Medical personnel on board are currently fighting to stabilize other symptomatic passengers while working to identify the specific pathogen responsible for the fatalities. Situation Report The loss of
USA In a sudden pivot that has reverberated across global financial markets, President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States is engaged in high-level discussions with a respected Iranian leader, suggesting that the Islamic Republic is eager to negotiate an end to the month-old conflict. Characterizing the dialogue as nearly perfect, the President […]
London Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formally known as Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the first member of the British royal family to be detained in modern times. The King’s brother was taken into custody in Norfolk on Thursday morning as part of police investigations into the former prince’s dealings with […]
USA The United States has completed its first sale of Venezuelan oil, generating around $500 million, a US official said Wednesday, the first major energy transaction since Washington’s dramatic intervention in Venezuela earlier this month. The sale is part of a broader $2 billion agreement between the US and Venezuelan authorities, and officials say more […]
USA U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration will “permanently pause” migration from all “Third World Countries”, following the death of a National Guard member in an attack near the White House. The comments mark a further escalation of migration measures Trump has ordered since the shooting on Wednesday that investigators
EU The European Union imposed sanctions on a top leader of Sudan’s paramilitary group over “grave and ongoing atrocities” by his forces in the more than two-year war with the Sudanese army, including in the western Darfur region where they captured the army’s last stronghold last month. The measures announced Thursday against Abdel-Rahim Hamdan Dagalo […]
Nigeria President Donald Trump was heading to Florida on Friday, watching Fox News, when he saw the network run a story on how Christians were being targeted by Islamic groups in Nigeria, two sources familiar with the matter told Sky News Africa. The president was “immediately” angered by it, one of the sources said, and […]
USA U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump made the surprise announcement on Truth Social while he was aboard his Marine One helicopter flying to meet Xi for a […]
United Nations World leaders will gather in New York next week for the UN General Assembly and Secretary-General António Guterres has framed the meeting as a critical opportunity for problem-solving, not point-scoring, against a backdrop of raging conflicts, climate crisis, and pressing need to reform the 80-year-old institution itself. In his opening remarks,















