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White South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
President Donald Trump said that he would hold South Africa accountable for rights violations against white Afrikaners, a group of people he described as “innocent disfavored minority farmers.
Residents walk by charred vehicles in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Jan. 31. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed groups have competed for power and control of this vast nation’s potential fortune.
Altar servers lead a procession at the start of Mass in Marondera, Zimbabwe, Jan. 1, 2024. (OSV News photo/Philimon Bulawayo, Reuters)
FaithDispatches
Marko Phiri
Catholic institutions in Zimbabwe and other African states once could rely on support from retired missionaries. Now the decline in missionary numbers has left African religious communities facing a financial crunch.
Members of the Mozambique military patrol the streets of Maputo, the nation's capital, on Nov. 8, 2024, a day after a “national shutdown” against protests over the outcome of general elections. (OSV News photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
After another disputed election, street protests wrack Mozambique. while a northern province, Cabo Delgado, endures a deadly Islamist insurrection.
A young Sudanese woman who fled the violence in Sudan's Darfur region stands in the yard of a Chadian's family house May 14, 2023. She took refuge at the house in Koufroun, Chad, near the border between that country and Sudan. (OSV News photo/Zohra Bensemra, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyThe Weekly Dispatch
Kevin Clarke
Focus on the fate of Israel, its hostages in Gaza and the people of Gaza and south Lebanon means that little attention is being paid to other continuing crises around the world—Sudan, Haiti, Myanmar among them.
FaithFaith and Reason
James T. Keane
A gathering of scholars last week in Nairobi focused on the theological foundations of synodality and the contributions of African theologians to the synodal process.