JOHANNESBURG, Jan 30 (Reuters) - South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in ...

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President Cyril Ramaphosa says the process of repatriating the 13 soldiers who died on a mission in the Democratic ...

January 17, 2025 • In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

After the end of hostilities in 2018, South Sudan was hit by several successive years of heavy rains and floods that delayed the return of refugees from Uganda and Ethiopia, two countries hosting the ...

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