US president raved about his ‘extremely good’ personal relationship with the Chinese leader, but Xi was more muted.
![South African member of parliament and Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla Mandela joins a press conference held by the Global Sumud Flotilla about its upcoming Spring 2026 mission Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa. [Jerome Delay/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-1770319636.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Tiny The Gambia was the first to take another country to the ICJ as a third-party rights defender.
South Africa is hosting the BRICS exercises, but two founding members are not participating amid tensions with the US.
South African official says drills with Russia, Iran, China and others key to protecting ‘maritime economic activities’.
Naval exercises come as tensions run high after US military intervention in Venezuela, seizures of several oil tankers.
Indomitable Lions score goal in each half and survive late fightback from Bafana Bafana to set up clash with hosts.
The tie of the round pits South Africa against Cameroon, with both teams hoping for a tilt at the 2025 AFCON title.
Hugo Broos lead Cameroon to the 2017 AFCON title but will have be no room for sentimentality with his South Africa side.
An activist-turned-historian takes tourists through South Africa’s painful colonial history, which still echoes today.
Mali and Burkina Faso are the latest to issue ‘tit-for-tat’ bans on visas for US citizens with immediate effect.
![Gambian Justice Minister and Attorney General Dawda Jallow sits in the courtroom, next to lawyer Arsalan Suleman, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) starts hearings in a landmark case brought by The Gambia, which accuses Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya, a minority Muslim group, in The Hague, Netherlands, on January 12, 2026 [Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-01-12T094241Z_1499227565_RC2LZIAI6JY3_RTRMADP_3_MYANMAR-ROHINGYA-WORLD-COURT-1768496092.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
