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Trump and Putin's recent discussions signal a potential shift towards peace in Ukraine, challenging European strategies and raising questions about future geopolitical dynamics
The UN has issued its starkest warning yet as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advance beyond captured Goma into South Kivu province, threatening regional stability. With thousands dead and a crucial summit approaching in Tanzania, regional powers scramble to prevent the conflict from igniting a wider war in Central Africa.
The Kremlin has dismissed Ukrainian President Zelensky's unprecedented offer for direct peace talks with Putin, citing a 2022 decree that banned negotiations. The rejection comes amid escalating tensions and accusations from both sides.
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The conflict in Ukraine can be described as a hybrid war between Russia and the United States, as Kiev would not be able to use modern long-range weapons without US assistance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
Tokyo's unfriendly actions completely hinder negotiations on a peace treaty between Russia and Japan, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
The IFP has agreed to the peace talks with the ANC ahead of the elections.
IFP leader, Velenkosini Hlabisa said he has written to ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa that both sides must come up with teams to discuss the peace plan.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s legal adviser Nokukhanya Jele and Director-General in the department of international relations and co-operation Zane Dangor will meet with senior officials in Ukraine on Wednesday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa met with the Vice President of the Transitional Sovereign Council of Sudan, Malik Agar Eyre over the weekend.
President Cyril Ramaphosa joined fellow BRICS leaders in calling for the international community to support direct peace talks to find a solution to the conflict in the Middle East.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for countries who are supplying weapons to both Israel and Hamas to stop this as it was escalating the conflict.
President Ramaphosa said South Africa will make a contribution to the peace talks in Egypt.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been asked by Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to join the peace talks on the conflict in Gaza.
Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and National Council of Provinces chairperson Amos Masondo called for both the City of Cape Town and Santaco to sit at the table and find a solution to the strike.
Chinese modernization has been a key term in Xi's meetings with foreign leaders.
The foreign ministers of China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran shook hands in Beijing, marking a historic moment in Riyadh-Tehran relations.
Recently, South Africa played a pivotal role in the Tigray conflict negotiations, playing host country to the African Union led mediation team, in which a ceasefire agreement was reached between Tigray forces and the Ethiopian government.
The restoration of desperately needed humanitarian assistance to the region is one of the key planks of a peace deal between the federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front to end two years of brutal war in northern Ethiopia.
World leaders have hailed the peace agreement by the Ethiopian government and regional forces from Tigray, with many calling it a water-shed moment for conflict resolution on the continent.
AU-led mediators have hailed the process as an African solution to an African problem.
The South Africa-hosted talks are the first formal peace talks aimed at ending two years of war between the Ethiopian army and forces from the country’s northern region of Tigray.
The African Union (AU) has facilitated the direct peace talks between the Ethiopian federal government and the rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which are to be in South Africa.
The Ethiopian government said that it would participate in peace talks led by the African Union to try to resolve the nearly two-year war in Tigray.
The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has underscored this positive development as a unique opportunity toward the restoration of peace in Ethiopia.