{"id":31186,"date":"2026-04-09T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31186"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:22:51","slug":"sas-international-relations-department-welcomes-fragile-ceasefire-between-iran-us","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-international-relations-department-welcomes-fragile-ceasefire-between-iran-us\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s International Relations department welcomes fragile ceasefire between Iran, US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO), says they have welcomed the fragile ceasefire that was announced between Iran and the United States (US).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The department says it is in accordance with SA&#8217;s approach to peace-making.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">DIRCO in partnership with the University of SA (UNISA), held a roundtable discussion on Wednesday under the theme, International Law, Diplomacy and Multilateralism for Peace in the Context of War: Iran and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Also SA President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The agreement includes a two-week pause of attacks ahead of a deadline set by Donald Trump, with negotiations expected during this period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Ramaphosa said the development is a positive step toward reducing tensions in the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30899,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-31186","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"DIRCO says they have welcomed the fragile ceasefire between Iran, US","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31188,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31186\/revisions\/31188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}