International News
African credit ratings can absorb aid cuts and trade strains, Fitch says
By: Reuters 10th April 2025 Pressure from US aid freezes and global trade tension is unlikely to result in widescale credit downgrades in Africa, Fitch Ratings said on... →
Current global volatility may spark stronger intra-African trade
By: Marleny Arnoldi 10th April 2025 As Africa navigates the outcomes of key elections in 2024 and 2025, as well as geopolitical realignments on the back of President Donald Trump’s... →
Unctad warns of consequences of tariffs on the world’s most vulnerable
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 7th April 2025 With major economies set to impose sweeping new tariffs following those announced by the US last week, intergovernmental organisation UN Trade and... →
Baffled Lesotho seeks to engage with US on 'shocking' tariffs
By: Reuters 4th April 2025 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 4th April 2025 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 4th April 2025 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... →
