From New York, this is democracy now.

It's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about, but it's a terrible thing that's taking place.

And farmers are being killed.

A year after President Trump falsely claimed there's a white genocide in South Africa, the Trump administration has closed the door to all refugees around the world except for white South Africans. Since October, the U.S.

has resettled just over 6,000 refugees, all except three were from South Africa. We'll go to

Johannesburg and also speak to the head of a refugee group suing Trump over the policy.

Then a new study finds Trump's abrupt withdrawal of USAID funding has led to a sustained

increase in violence across Africa.

So our study found that in addition to the devastating impacts in terms of health care around the world,

the cuts to USAID also helped fuel a surge in protests, riots, armed conflicts, and violence against civilians in many parts of Africa.

Finally, as students graduate from colleges and universities across the country, many schools are taking steps to silence pro-Palestinian voices at campus ceremonies, from canceling speakers to eliminating live speeches by students altogether.

At the University of Michigan, the school's president issued a public apology

after a professor delivered these remarks at commencement.

Sing for the pro-Palestinian student activists.

Who have, over these past two years opened our hearts to the injustice and inhumanity of Israel's war in Gaza.

We'll speak to a CUNY law school student and Rutgers professor Nora Erica. All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. Iran says it's

established a controlled maritime zone in the Strait of

Hormuz that ships will not be able to transit without authorization from the newly created

Persian Gulf Strait Authority. On Wednesday, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it

had coordinated safe passage for 26 cargo ships and tankers, including the first shipment of Middle East

oil to South Korea since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran nearly three months

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