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    Uganda Should Reject the Spread of Sharia and the Qadhis Courts Bill

    This week, Uganda’s Parliament is considering a bill that would profoundly erode religious freedom protections in the country. The ‘Qadhis Courts Bill,’ published in the Uganda Gazette on February 27, 2026, has been presented as a measure to adjudicate family law disputes through Sharia law. In reality, the bill would establish a nationwide system of…
    Kelsey Zorzi
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    West African Nations Demand Reparations for Slavery at UN. Shouldn’t They Be Paying Up?

    The United Nations—that leechlike relic of the 20th century that still pretends to be important—last week passed a resolution to declare the trans-Atlantic slave trade the “gravest crime against humanity.” While the resolution will likely have very little real-world effect for now, it’s a clear attempt by some countries to receive monetary reparations from those nations apparently guilty of…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    What’s the Right US Response to Mass Killings of Christians in Africa? New Report Calls for ‘Real Action’

    President Donald Trump is drawing attention to the persecution of Christians in Africa, which has created a moment of “leverage” and momentum for “real action,” according to a new report from The Heritage Foundation.   “Human rights attacks against Christians occur too often, though [they] escape mainstream America, given unfamiliarity, distance, and competing priorities,” Ned Rauch-Mannino, a visiting fellow for The Heritage Foundation’s Douglas…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: State Department Corrects the Record on South African Refugees

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s State Department says its efforts to accept Afrikaner refugees cost taxpayers a fraction of what the Biden administration spent fast tracking more than 220,000 refugees into the U.S. The Washington Post published a story saying the State Department plans to accept around 7,000 white South African refugees. The State…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Inside the State Department’s Fact-Finding Mission to South Africa

    I wrote a piece for The Daily Signal on Aug. 2 highlighting new findings from the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) on racially charged violence targeting white farmers in South Africa. After my commentary created some buzz, I was able to arrange an interview with a senior State Department official…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Churches Burn and Christians Face Beheadings in Africa

    Radical Islamic groups are targeting and killing Christians in multiple African nations.  An ISIS affiliate, known as Islamic State Mozambique Province, is taking responsibility for recent beheadings of Christians in Mozambique and setting fire to homes and churches, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, a research organization based in Washington, D.C.  On July…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘These Are Not Ordinary Crimes’: State Dept. Bureau’s New Findings Prove Trump Right on South Africa

    When President Donald Trump interrupted his Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to play a video evidencing widespread persecution against white South Africans in May, the left-wing media called it an “ambush.” Which only leaves one to wonder what the media would call what happened to the Heunis family the night of…
    Bradley Devlin
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    The Truth About South Africa’s Anti-American Agenda

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’ve had another “ambush” in the White House. Ambush, remember, means an unexpected attack on someone…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    The West’s Assault on the African Family

    In 1900, there were an estimated 9.6 million Christians in Africa. As of 2025, there are more than 754 million. That alone is a staggering figure. But it’s even more significant as we examine it in relation to Christianity in other regions of the globe. With just under 552 million Christians in Europe, just under 417 million…
    Travis Weber
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    ‘HE’S AMAZING’: Howard Lutnick Opens Up About Trump’s Confrontation With South African President

    Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick praised President Donald Trump’s courage and tenacity in confronting the president of South Africa with a video showing chants of “Kill the Boer, Kill the [white] farmer” in the Oval Office. “Well, the president is willing to call it out, straight out, right to the president of South Africa and say,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Was Right to Shame South African President

    In one of the most incredible scenes in American diplomatic history, President Donald Trump halted his meeting with the South African president Wednesday to show him a video montage of threats made to white citizens of his country. “Boer” refers to an Afrikaner, a descendant of mostly Dutch immigrants in South Africa. This meeting took place a week after…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    WATCH: Trump Hits South African President With Receipts

    LIVE on “The Tony Kinnett Cast” at 7 p.m. EDT: President Donald Trump delivers an incredibly potent diplomatic punch to the racially discriminatory government of South Africa, ending the age of America’s bootlicking on the world stage. Democrats and legacy media intensify their infighting, with Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios trying…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Trump Shows South African President Receipts of Genocide

    President Donald Trump showed South Africa’s president a damning video montage of threats against white people in his country after Cyril Ramaphosa asserted that there was no genocide against white farmers there. During Ramaphosa’s meeting with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, a reporter asked what it would take for Trump to believe there…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Support for the Natural Family in Africa Is Rooted in ‘White Supremacy,’ SPLC Claims

    It takes a special kind of insanity to find a Klan hood beneath an African movement to protect the natural family from abortion and LGBTQ+ ideology, but that’s exactly what the Southern Poverty Law Center is claiming. The SPLC—which trades on its history of suing KKK groups into bankruptcy to smear conservative and Christian nonprofits…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    South Africa Denies Elon Musk’s Accusations of Racial Genocide

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday denied Elon Musk’s claim that white people are being persecuted in that country, calling it a “completely false narrative.” Musk, a native of South Africa, drew attention to a political rally last Friday at which black leaders of a far-left opposition party sang a song that includes the lyrics “Kill…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trojan Horse of Gender Ideology Threatens African Treaty on Protecting Women, Girls From Violence

    Member states at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are poised to adopt an "African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls." Its goal is laudable, but as the African Bar Association has revealed, a number of the provisions of the draft treaty reflect an entirely different purpose: radical gender ideology….
    Laura Bryant Hanford
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    South Africa’s Dangerous Battle Against Israel 

    South Africa filed a lawsuit Dec. 29 in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, accusing Israel of committing genocide, pointing to the scores of dead Palestinians that have resulted from Israel’s campaign against Hamas.  While the case is still pending as of this writing, the court on Jan. 26 ordered Israel to…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Terror Groups and China Thrive, US Influence Declines, Amidst African Instability

    As the Middle East is again consumed by wars of terrorist aggression, Africa, too, is experiencing a rise in violence. Despite the region receiving billions in U.S. foreign aid annually, groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have gained ground throughout the continent. As of 2023, the Sahel region—a broad sub-Saharan swathe of land…
    Max Primorac
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    Harris Rejects DeSantis’ Challenge to Discuss Florida’s African American History Curriculum

    Vice President Kamala Harris has rebuffed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ offer to discuss Florida’s African American history curriculum, which she has been criticizing since late last month. “Well, I’m here in Florida, and I will tell you, there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact: There were…
    Elise McCue
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    College Board Concedes to DeSantis on Woke African American Studies Course

    The College Board will revise its Advanced Placement African American Studies course for high school students after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, rejected it as “indoctrination,” according to a Tuesday afternoon announcement.   “Thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ principled stand for education over identity politics, the College Board will be revising the course for the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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