Fact-checking Trump’s Oval Office confrontation with Ramaphosa
President Trump made a series of claims about the killing of white farmers in South Africa, some of which are demonstrably false.
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On the South African road incorrectly identified as a ‘burial site’ by Trump
The US president said video of crosses on the road was evidence of the scale of attacks on white farmers.
Activist freed in Tanzania after Kenyan government demand
Kenya had earlier said it had been denied access to Boniface Mwangi and expressed concern over his health.
Trump ambushes S African leader with claim of Afrikaners being ‘persecuted’
Cyril Ramaphosa rebuts discredited claims of a “white genocide” in South Africa, as US president confronts him in Oval Office.
Ramaphosa keeps cool during Trump’s choreographed onslaught
The BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue analyses how the South African president reacted in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting.
How Trump-Ramaphosa confrontation went down in South Africa
Right-wing Afrikaners groups celebrated the ambush but others in the Rainbow Nation found it “uncomfortable” to watch.
The Great African Swindle: How Phantom Loans Became the New Chains of Empire
By Shangox Introduction: The Fraud No One Talks About Africa is not poor. It has never been poor. It is the richest continent in terms of natural resources, cultural capital, and human potential. Yet, from Ghana to Zambia, from Nigeria to Senegal, it remains shackled in debt. This is not an accident. It is not … Read more