Donald Trump has warned no US officials will attend the G20 summit in South Africa over claims white people are being persecuted in the country.The US President said it is a "total disgrace" that South Africa is hosting the meeting between leaders from the world's largest economies.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has warned against external interference in African affairs, saying foreign actors are attempting to destabilize the region because they are threatened by Uganda’s growing industrial base and upcoming oil production.The President made the remarks yesterda
Sergey Lavrov has been the face of Russian diplomacy for over two decades and previously served as Russia’s ambassador to the UN.The news out of Moscow is a bit of non-news: Russia’s top diplomat is still in his job.On Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov moved to tamp down i
Last week’s Tanzania elections failed to comply with democratic standards, says the African Union, adding to mounting international pressure on President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s administration over the deadly vote.The AU’s election monitoring arm, which sent a team of 72 observers to T
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Abu Dhabi hosted a major oil summit Monday, hours after the OPEC+ group of the cartel and its allies said it would halt further production increases planned in the first quarter of 2026 over concerns of too much supply in the market.The OPEC+ decisi
The Katikkiro of Buganda, Charles Peter Mayiga, has come out swinging against claims by the National Unity Platform (NUP) that he has been blocking the party and its president, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine, from appearing on Buganda Kingdom–owned media platforms — BBS Terefayina a
A Tanzanian riot police officer walks past a vandalised campaign poster of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, following a protest a day after a general election marred by violent demonstrations over the exclusion of two leading opposition candidates at the Namanga One-Post Border crossing point betwe
New reporting in the Wall Street Journal and the Miami Herald says the Trump administration “has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities used to smuggle drugs,” and that Washington “has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela” — strik
Well now it appears that the shoe is on the other foot as Russia is directly supplying Venezuela with offensive and defensive weapons, just as NATO and the US have been directly supplying Ukraine in their proxy war against Russia.Venezuelan President Maduro has asked Russia, China and Iran
Singapore — Oil prices eased on Friday, heading for a third consecutive monthly decline, as a stronger dollar and weak China data capped gains while rising supply from major producers globally offset the effect of Western sanctions on Russian exports.Brent crude futures slipped 36c, or 0
