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Trump orders freeze of aid to South Africa, cites country's land expropriation law

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he'll freeze assistance to South Africa because of its law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa's racist apartheid era — a law the White House says amounts to discrimination against the country's white minority.

Africa must stop depending on foreign blueprints, says Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria has charged African leaders to stop clinging to their old habit of depending on foreign plans, saying the continent is in dire need of leaders who wield policy as a surgical blade instead of a slogan.