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Aug 08 2022
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Blinken Unveils Strategy for Africa: Flatters Ruling Elite, Ignores China Threat
Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech Monday at the University of Pretoria in South Africa in which he purported to outline the Biden administration’s new strategy toward Africa — though he simply recycled old platitudes.
Blinken began with a series of well-worn clichés about South Africa’s transition to apartheid — nearly 30 years ago — and completely ignored the country
Breitbart News
Dec 04 2021
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The Variant Hunters: Inside South Africa’s Effort to Stanch Dangerous Mutations
A few months ago, Sizakele Mathe, a community health worker in this sprawling hillside township on the edge of the city of Durban, was notified by a clinic that a neighbor had stopped picking up her medication. It was a warning sign that she had likely stopped taking the antiretroviral tablet that suppresses her H.I.V. infection.
That was a threat to her own health — and, in the era of
New York Times (News)
Dec 02 2021
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South Africa new cases double in 24 hours as Omicron spreads
Health officials say the new coronavirus variant Omicron has now become dominant in South Africa and is driving a sharp increase in new infections.
Some 8,500 new Covid infections were registered in the latest daily figures.
That is almost double the 4,300 cases confirmed the previous day.
By contrast, daily infections were averaging between 200 and 300 in mid-November, a
BBC News
Nov 27 2021
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South Africa says it's being "punished" for detecting new COVID variant
South Africa said Saturday it's being "punished" for detecting the new Omicron coronavirus variant as more countries rush to enact travel bans and restrictions.
Driving the news: The U.S. imposed air travel restrictions from eight countries Friday in response to the Omicron variant. Countries in Europe and Asia have also implemented their own travel restrictions in response to Omicron
Axios
Jul 16 2021
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Enemies of democracy behind South Africa protests, says president
The wave of protest and looting that swept across much of South Africa over the past week was planned by enemies of democracy in a deliberate effort to sow chaos, the president has said.
Speaking to reporters in some of the areas worst hit by the unrest, Cyril Ramaphosa said authorities had identified “a good number” of those who planned and coordinated the violence, the worst in South
The Guardian
Jul 16 2021
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South Africa violence continues to spiral, causing food and fuel shortages
Food and fuel shortages in South Africa have grown so severe amid deadly rioting and looting that some on the front lines are considering cannibalism, according to a report.
“We are on the verge of eating each other,” community leader Nhlanhla Lux told the Financial Times as he and a group of other armed men dug in to defend the Maponya Mall in Soweto from looters.
“The biggest
New York Post (News)
Feb 28 2020
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Joe Biden admits he was not arrested in apartheid South Africa
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden admitted Friday that he was not arrested in South Africa in the 1970s, despite repeatedly making that claim on the campaign trail.
“I wasn’t arrested, I was stopped. I was not able to move where I wanted to go,” he said on CNN.
While pursuing the Democratic presidential nomination, Mr. Biden on several recent occasions said he was arrested
Washington Times
Aug 08 2022
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Blinken draws distinctions between US and Russia as he seeks to make case for US partnership in Africa
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday drew firm distinctions between the United States and Russia as he sought to make the case that the US is the better partner for countries in Africa.
In a speech about the Biden administration’s “strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa,” delivered in Pretoria, South Africa, the top US diplomat argued that “the United States and African nations can’t
CNN (Online News)