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Baffled Lesotho seeks to engage with US on 'shocking' tariffs
By: Reuters Updated 5 hours ago Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out... →
US lawmakers revive call for review of South African relations 
By: Bloomberg Updated 6 hours ago Two US lawmakers introduced a bill to review South Africa’s ties with Washington, alleging that it supports America’s adversaries. Ronny Jackson, a... →
China hits back hard in global trade war with tariffs on US goods
By: Reuters Updated 6 hours ago China announced additional tariffs of 34% on US goods on Friday, the most serious escalation in a trade war with President Donald Trump that has... →
South Africa's white Afrikaner separatists want Trump's help to become state
By: Reuters 3rd April 2025 A group of white Afrikaners was so opposed to majority Black rule when apartheid ended some three decades ago that they carved out a separatist... →
Trump's tariffs will be negative the world over, says ECB's Lagarde
By: Reuters 2nd April 2025 US President Donald Trump's planned tariffs will be negative across the world, with the damage depending on how far they go, how long they last and... →
Trump to escalate global trade tensions with new reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners
By: Reuters 2nd April 2025 US President Donald Trump was poised to impose sweeping new reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of... →
Targeted by Trump, South Africa seeks to reset trade relations
By: Bloomberg 28th March 2025 South Africa is working to reset US relations that have been under assault by Donald Trump since his return to the White House. Pretoria is... →
Fruits of decades of AIDS vaccine research harmed by Trump’s withdrawal of US funding
By: Bloomberg 28th March 2025 After decades of failed attempts, scientists were optimistic that a new generation of HIV vaccine candidates would finally succeed — changing the... →
