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(Archived document, may contain errors) 633 i I A February 12 1988 IN SOUTHERN AF'RICA, THE STATE DEPARTMENT BETS. AGAINST .THE REAGAN DOCTRINE INTRODUCTION Africa has been the key testing ground in the struggle between the Rea gan Doctrine's support for resistance forces fighting Soviet-backed communist regimes and the Brezhnev Doctrine's insistence on the irreversibility of communist gains.

The decision by President Mokgweetsi Masisi to recall Botswana’s top diplomat and replace him with a relatively new envoy has raised eyebrows within the

Addis Ababa, MOROCCO, January 20 - Moroccos pioneering experience in the field of gender equality was highlighted before the Committee of Permanent

National one-day strike in France against government plans to increase retirement age by two years; doctors across Spain walk out over staff shortages and pay; UK health workers’ strikes over low pay and staff shortages continue as teachers vote to walk out; protests continue across Iran over police murder of Mahsa Amini, joined by cost-of-living strikes by oil and gas workers; strikes by Lebanese workers including telecom workers and teachers in response to ongoing economic crisis

"The problem in South Africa is that people will use any crisis for political point-scoring"

It has been a 33-year-old tradition of China's foreign ministers making their first overseas trip to Africa at the beginning of every new year. Accordingly, this year, too, China upheld the tradition, with newly appointed Foreign Minister Qin Gang paying an eight-day visit to Africa.

UCD has partnered with Mozambique’s UEM to bring green infrastructure such as community gardens and urban beekeeping to two African cities.

The Statsraad Lehmkuhl is partway through the 20-month One Ocean Expedition research expedition circumnavigating the globe.

Many African leaders were quick to congratulate Brazil's President Lula da Silva on his reelection. They are counting on da Silva to improve relations which had greatly suffered under former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Frene Ginwala will be remembered as a trailblazing feminist, and the first speaker of South Africa's democratic Parliament.