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Geoff Hill

ghill@washingtontimes.com

Geoff Hill is an Africa-based journalist. His foreign correspondence is highlighted in the Threat Status newsletter produced by The Washington Times. Mr. Hill’s family has been in Africa since 1795, and for more than two decades he has covered the region for The Washington Times. When not writing he rescues snakes from people’s homes and is pictured here with a puff adder. His work has appeared in newspapers on all six continents and he was the first non-American to win a John Steinbeck award.

Articles by Geoff Hill

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, centre left, is greeted by African National Congress supporters as he arrives at the Mose Mabhida stadium in Durban, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, for the ANC national manifesto launch in anticipation of the 2024 general elections. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A string of votes provides stress test for health of African democracy

In 2024, the year America goes to the polls, a population equivalent to the U.S. and Canada combined will be doing the same across Africa as nearly two dozen countries are scheduled to hold presidential and parliamentary elections that could reshape the political profile of the continent.

March 12, 2024
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, left, chats with South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa Naledi Pandor during their binational commission in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

U.S., South Africa work to ease fallout over Russia

South Africa's delicate balancing act over Russia and the Ukraine war and the strain it has brought to relations with the United States were on full display late last month during a trip to Pretoria by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

July 8, 2023
A young girl carrying an empty water bottle through a flooded street caused by an overflowing water reservoir in Hamanskraal, Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, May 26, 2023. Health authorities are yet to confirm the exact source of the cholera outbreak, but poor wastewater management and local government instability in South Africa's capital city have been blamed for the situation. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) **FILE**

Electricity crisis spurs spread of cholera in South Africa

The death toll from a cholera outbreak in South Africa has climbed to 26 in recent days, with dozens more hospitalized while frustration mounts over the government's response to the disease that is common in several areas of Africa but rarely spreads in this country.

June 7, 2023
Supporters of Zimbabwe's ruling party sing and cheer while welcoming Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko upon his arrival at Robert Mugabe International airport in Harare, Monday, Jan, 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

New regimes cracking down on old African dynasties

His father was one of the world's most feared dictators for decades. Today, Robert Mugabe Jr. is on bail pending a return to a Zimbabwean court on a charge of damaging property that could send him to jail.

March 24, 2023
This undated electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows rabies virions, dark and bullet-shaped, within an infected tissue sample. Five Americans died of rabies in 2021 — the largest number in a decade — and health officials say some occurred because people didn’t realize they’d been infected or refused life-saving shots. (F. A. Murphy/CDC via AP)

Deaths trigger warning of rabies in South Africa

Sparked by a string of fatal rabies cases this year, South African health officials have a message for visitors to the resorts along its famous coastline and nature preserves that dot the country's interior: Stay away from stray dogs.

December 22, 2022