Pope Leo criticized violations of international law by 'neocolonial' world powers in a forceful speech on Monday during an Africa tour, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump's direct attack on the leader of the 1.4-billion-member Church.
Pope Leo XIV speaks during a meeting with the authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps at the cultural centre of the Great Mosque Of Algiers (Djamaa El Djazair), Algiers, Algeria, April 13, 2026. Reuters/Guglielmo Mangiapane
Pope Leo criticized violations of international law by 'neocolonial' world powers in a forceful speech on Monday during an Africa tour, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump's direct attack on the leader of the 1.4-billion-member Church.
The first U.S. pope urged leaders in Algeria on the first day of a four-nation tour to build a society based on principles of justice and solidarity.
"Today, this is more urgent than ever in the face of continuous violations of international law and neocolonial tendencies," Leo said.
Reporting by Joshua McElwee
An envoy of President Donald Trump said he attended an event over the weekend with the head of Sudan's army, which is fighting a war with paramilitary forces that has created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
Spanish police on Sunday cleared a migrant camp on a beach in the North African enclave of Ceuta, where tens of thousands crossed the border from Morocco over two months ago, the Spanish government said.
Eighty-five percent of African private-sector transactions are conducted with companies outside the continent. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi used that figure on Saturday to open the inaugural Alamein Africa Forum, a three-day business summit in the Mediterranean city of El-Alamein.
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