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Trump administration halts scheduling of new student visa appointments

Reuters | May 28, 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the State Department plans to issue updated guidance on social media vetting of student and exchange visitor ap...

Under attack by Trump, South Africa's Ramaphosa responds with trade deal offer

Reuters | May 21, 2025

Trump has cancelled aid to South Africa, expelled its ambassador and offered refuge to white minority Afrikaners based on racial discrimination claims...

Ramaphosa lands in Washington to repair South Africa-US ties

Mwangi Maina | May 20, 2025

Ramaphosa seeks to mend frayed relations with the Trump administration and promote investment opportunities for South African industries, including po...

COMESA eyes a united response to US trade tariffs impacting member states

Bashir Mbuthia | May 18, 2025

COMESA's announcement comes ahead of planned meetings later this month by SADC and the East African Community, where trade ministers will discuss how...

Xi, Putin vow to counter Western tariffs, champion balanced world order

XINHUA | May 10, 2025

In early April, the United States rolled out so-called "reciprocal" tariffs against almost all of its trading partners worldwide, triggering widesprea...

Trump’s protectionist tariffs dent global economic growth prospects to 2.8 per cent

Alfred Onyango | Apr 24, 2025

Were it not for the tariffs, the lender says the global economic growth would have seen only a modest cumulative downgrade of 0.2 percentage point, to...