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Dipuo Mokone, left, and daughter Mmalethabo Mokone watch a TV broadcast of the meeting between South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and U.S. President Donald Trump from their home in Pretoria, South Africa, on May 21, 2025. (Phill Magakoe/Getty-AFP)

Ivor Ichikowitz: South Africa’s visit to the US shows how diplomacy has changed

May 29, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

There was trepidation in South African officials ahead of their U.S. visit after the public dressing down of Ukraine’s president.

Destroyed cars, after a coup, still litter the streets of Niamey, the capital of Niger, on Dec. 19, 2023. A wave of military coups and presidents clinging to power are two sides of the same anti-democratic coin plaguing Francophone Africa, experts say. (Carmen Abd Ali/The New York Times)

Ivor Ichikowitz: How can Africa shake its coup contagion?

April 18, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Young Africans want a new style of democracy that meets the realities and challenges of the continent.

Jews and Christians from Cape Town, South Africa, hold a giant Israeli flag in support of Israel at Lagoon Beach in Cape Town on Dec. 16, 2023.

Ivor Ichikowitz: South Africa’s genocide case against Israel is rank hypocrisy

January 16, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

South Africa made history when it took Israel to the International Court of Justice — the United Nations' highest court — and accused it of waging genocide against Palestinians while...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, center left, meet with Angolan President Joao Lourenco during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit on Dec. 13, 2022, in Washington.

Ivor Ichikowitz: US-Africa Leaders Summit is an opportunity we all must seize

December 13, 2022 at 3:06 p.m.

African leaders are meeting this week with President Joe Biden for the second U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit of his administration. The gathering comes at a very important time, for this is...

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