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Spotlight | South Africa
Pretoria seeks to reset relations with Damascus in post-Assad era

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Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, the Syrian transitional government's foreign minister, Damascus, 15 January 2025.
Asaad Hassan al-Shibani, the Syrian transitional government's foreign minister, Damascus, 15 January 2025. © Sebastian Gollnow/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom/MaxPPP

South Africa, one of the main African supporters of the Bashar al-Assad regime, is cautiously trying to establish contact with the new Syrian government dominated by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group.

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