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Winding down on South Africa’s Women’s Month, Vedhan Singh and Dr Cresencia Nyathi highlight the critical risks to gender equality and sustainable peace, emphasising the urgent need to include women in peacekeeping efforts.
The former leaders said the world has been torn apart by the conflict and people on all sides want peace.
The SAJBD, together with the SA Zionist Federation, met with the ANC recently.
The South African non-profit organisation said the escalation of violence was fuelled by corruption in the arms industry.
The ANC has said it supports the two-state solution on Israel and Palestine and this must be based on the 1967 borders.
The Human Sciences Research Council and Africa Institute of South Africa hosted a diplomatic conversation around the Israel-Hamas war currently raging on in the Middle-East.
Minister Naledi Pandor received a call to talk to the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh.
Reverend Frank Chikane and other members of the South African Anti-Apartheid Steering Committee, together with their partners in Palestine, addressed the media on Tuesday about the launch of the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement.
ANC’s first deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane said invitations have been sent out to all leaders in the BRICS nations and any attempt of being arrogant or bullied may lead unnecessarily to a war.
South Africa must not be forced to take sides in geopolitics and should focus on getting into talks with its major trade partners to ensure trade relations are secured, so says former president Kgalema Motlanthe.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the country has been involved in peace missions in South Sudan, Tigray, DRC, Northern Ireland and of late Sudan.
Ilya Igorevich Rogachev, the Russian Federation ambassador to SA, said the concept of neutrality simply does not exist and the actions of Western forces have proved that.
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor said the African leaders will continue to engage with both presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin to find a solution to the conflict.
President Cyril Ramaphosa told the Prime Ministers of Netherlands and Denmark, Mark Rutte and Mette Frederiksen, that African leaders have a role in forging peace in Ukraine.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the only solution to the conflict was through negotiations and diplomatic means.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to continue with peace efforts, together with African leaders seeking an end to the conflict in Ukraine when they meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
The high-level meeting underscored the overriding importance of a single, inclusive and consolidated peace process for Sudan
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The SANDF says the bilateral meeting was planned ‘well in advance’ and is a long-standing arrangement.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that he does not accept that our non-aligned position favours Russia above other countries. Nor does he accept that it should imperil our relations with other countries.
The foreign ministers of China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran shook hands in Beijing, marking a historic moment in Riyadh-Tehran relations.
The minister says the gathering of parties in Pretoria to broker a deal reflected the true commitment to address conflict on the continent.
The final political agreement, which aims to create a transitional civil authority in Sudan, was scheduled to be signed on Saturday, but differences between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces over the security and military reform clause and integration of the irregular forces in the army postponed the signing of the deal.
Dysfunction throughout the water cycle is undermining progress on all major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, disasters to peace.
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