International

On March 9th, Mark Carney won the leadership race to become Canada's new prime minister, succeeding Justin Trudeau. Carney, a former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank...

On March 9th, Athol Fugard, South Africa’s most renowned playwright and a powerful critic of apartheid, passed away at his home in Stellenbosch at the age of 92. His wife,...

President Donald Trump hailed the sale of two Panama Canal ports to a U.S.-led consortium BlackRock as a major victory in what he called an effort to reassert American control...

On Monday, March 3rd, President Donald Trump suspended all U.S. military aid to Ukraine, putting over $1 billion in security assistance on hold. This follows a tense White House meeting...

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance clashed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the ongoing war with Russia and U.S. support for Kyiv in a recent meeting. The...

Dana Brown, Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Mission to South Africa, will retire from the Foreign Service in March after 27 years. The U.S. Embassy in Pretoria confirmed her departure,...

South Africa opened its first G20 foreign ministers’ meeting on Thursday, February 20th, calling for multilateral cooperation to address global crises. However, the absence of U.S. Secretary of State Marco...

Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world’s first openly gay imam, was shot dead in Gqeberha, South Africa, on Saturday, February 15th. Hendricks, 57, was traveling in a car when two...