Residents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital, Kinshasa reacted to comments made by US President Donald Trump about foreign migrants last week.

During a meeting with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, President Trump spoke on curbing migration and the conditions of the US borders, telling his Italian counterpart, “many, many people come from the Congo. I don’t know what that is, but they came from the Congo and all over the world they came in.”

One Kinshasa resident, Jonathan Bawolo responded to Trump’s statement by saying, “we are a country that is so rich that we’re not selfish, and we don’t harass foreigners in the streets to ask for their identity papers”.

It was not the first time the American president has made such statements about an African country.

In March, President Trump declared that no one had ever heard of Lesotho during a speech criticising some U.S. foreign aid contracts as a waste of money.

US and Iranian delegations held talks in Rome on Saturday on Tehran’s nuclear program with further meetings planned for next week.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the talks as constructive.

The delegations held four rounds of indirect talks at the Omani embassy in Rome. Omani counterpart Badr Albusaidi shuttled between the rooms, delivering messages exchanged by the two sides.

“This time we managed to reach a better understanding about some principles and goals. Ultimately it was agreed that the talks continue and we enter the next stage and expert meetings start. Starting this Wednesday, technical meetings at experts level will start in Oman,” said Araghchi.

A third round of talks in Oman on April 26.

Donald Trump who in 2018 unilaterally abandoned a landmark nuclear accord signed and brokered by world powers in 2015 has demanded a new deal with Tehran and threatened to bomb it.

A significant step by South Africa’s legal system in confronting the atrocities of the country’s dark political past. 

A judge this week approved the trial of two apartheid-era police officers for their involvement in the 1982 assassination of three student activists.

The prosecution is unprecedented. Until now, no individual had been held accountable for the crime of apartheid.

The case centers around three young freedome fighters killed in an explosion in 1982. The victims were part of a resistance movement opposed to the apartheid regime which enforced White-only rule and domination over the Black majority.

Experts say the trial could open the door for others.

Also this week, South Africa reopened an investigation into the death Albert Luthuli, a former president of the African National Congress (ANC) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who was killed in 1967.

The prosecuting authority seeks to have the findings of previous inquests into Luthuli overturned.

The authorities at the time had concluded that Luthuli’s death the result of an accident.

The development comes more than 30 years since South Africa became a democracy and after a Truth commission unearted numerous atrocities.