Eastern Province

But standing in for Ramaphosa in a speech at South Africa's Freedom Day celebration in the eastern province of Mpumalanga, Mantashe criticised South African citizens who have called on Trump to "punish" the country.

The eastern province of Deir al-Zour, which remains divided between Syria’s new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

It was here in this resource-rich eastern province that Khalawi saw rebels oust loyalists of Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2012, before being supplanted by jihadi fighters, who in turn were soon kicked out by Islamic State militants.

In September the BBC visited a clinic in Lwiro, a rural area about an hour's drive outside the city of Bukavu in DR Congo's eastern province of South Kivu.

He is said to have escaped through a window at Chipata Central Hospital in Eastern Province where he had been admitted following his arrest and was being guarded by police and prison officers.