Sen. Lindsey Graham Dies at 71 After Sudden Illness
South Carolina Republican and longtime foreign policy hawk dies, drawing tributes from allies and renewed criticism of his hawkish record.
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South Africa’s June 30 Immigrant Ultimatum Comes and Goes. The Movement Says It Is Not Done.
Marches swept all nine provinces, a movement fractured in public view, a weekly protest declaration changed the shape of the campaign, and six African governments are still waiting for accountability.
June 30 2026: The Day South Africa Betrayed Africa
A brief history of a country that owes its freedom to the continent it is now expelling, the men and women leading the charge, the politicians enabling them, and an election in November that explains everything Ramaphosa is not saying.
What Comes After Coal: Germany’s Long Goodbye
The skies turned blue again, the rivers turned clean again, but the ground occasionally sinks without warning. Inside Germany’s long complicated goodbye to coal.
Hope Gets a Permanent Home: Obama Presidential Center Opens to the World on Juneteenth
The $850 million campus opens on the South Side of Chicago on Juneteenth, the federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the United States.
Protesters Dead, Courts Defied: Kenya-US Ebola Facility Plan Puts Washington’s Secret African Health Deals Under Scrutiny
President Ruto says hosting the facility is the humane thing to do. Washington's own diplomats say he misjudged his people. Three deaths in Nanyuki suggest otherwise. The domestic system to treat Americans exists. The U.S. is choosing not to use it. Kenya is absorbing the consequences of that choice.
Ramaphosa Moves To Slow South Africa’s June 30 Afrophobia Deadline
Two movements have set a June 30 ultimatum demanding that undocumented African migrants leave South Africa. In reality, documented migrants are fleeing too. President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on June 7 and still would not name either movement.
A Wound in Christian Memory: The Vatican Apologized for Authorizing the Slave Trade. The U.S., Israel and Argentina Voted Against Calling It the Gravest Crime Against Humanity.
Pope Leo XIV issued the most specific papal apology for slavery in history. The same week, the United States, Israel, and Argentina cast the only votes against a UN resolution declaring the slave trade the gravest crime against humanity.
The Utumishi Girls Fire Tragedy That Claimed 16 Young Lives
Investigators say forensic analysis of CCTV footage points to a deliberate act of arson. As families mourn, Kenya is once again forced to confront uncomfortable questions about school safety, student welfare and a troubling history of dormitory fires.
The Untapped Tech Potential of African Agriculture
Most young Africans do not dream of working in agriculture. But at the 2026 World Seed Congress in Lisbon this May, the world's largest annual gathering of seed leaders, scientists and innovators, farming looked less like a struggle with the soil and more like a frontier of technology. In a wide-ranging conversation with African Seed Trade Association Secretary General Yacouba Diallo,it emerged that Africa's future in agriculture may depend less on land and rainfall than on its willingness to embrace innovation.
