ECOWAS Region Has 4.8 Million Persons Living With HIV
At the end of 2022, there are 4.8 million persons living with HIV in West Africa, with 160,00 new infections and 120,000 AIDS-related deaths recorded.
ECOWAS member-States have therefore been urged to collectively rise above national borders, transcend political differences, and ... Read More
Putin Promises Russian Grain Shipments To Africa
President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin told leaders and officials from African countries on Thursday that Moscow would provide grain for sale or free to the neediest countries to avert the uncertainty in the global food supply caused by Russia’s ... Read More
Niger Coup: President Mohamed Bazoum In Good Health, Says Fr...
Mohamed Bazoum
Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum is in good health after being taken captive by his own presidential guard, the French foreign minister has said.
Catherine Colonna told AFP news agency the coup was not "final".
She said Mr Bazoum had spoken to ... Read More
What Africa And Russia Have To Gain From Summit
African leaders, including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, are heading to St. Petersburg this week for the second Russia-Africa Summit, as an isolated Moscow looks to shore up its influence in a key region.
Analysts told VOA that high on the ... Read More
Amid Chinese Foreign Ministry Shake-Up, Wang On Africa Tour
Wang Yi
This week as Beijing suddenly announced that China's foreign minister Qin Gang had been removed after just seven months in the job, his predecessor and now replacement, seasoned diplomat Wang Yi, was on a tour of some of Africa's key ... Read More
AfCFTA Holds Transformational Economic Potential For West Af...
After a decade of GDP growth average of about 5%, economic activity stagnated at 0.5% in 2016 in West Africa, mainly due to falling oil prices, before picking up again to 2.5% in 2017, and 3.4% and 3.7% respectively in ... Read More
Singapore Woos Africa For Mutual Benefits
Rahul Ghosh, a Director at Enterprise Singapore
A Director at Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG), Rahul Ghosh, has called for a strong collaboration between Singapore and Africa to establish global firms for mutual benefits.
The collaboration should precede the creation of a robust environment ... Read More
Ukraine War: UK Criticised For ‘Lack Of Understanding&...
Visitors to the 'PMC Wagner Centre', operated by founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin, in St Petersburg, Russia, in November 2022
The UK government has been sharply criticised by the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) for under-estimating ... Read More
African Court Embarks On Sensitisation Mission To Kenya
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has embarked on a three-day sensitisation visit to Kenya to encourage the government to fast-track the process to deposit the Declaration that allows individuals to access the Court directly.
The team includes the ... Read More
ECOWAS Meeting On Trafficking In Persons Underway In Accra
Representatives of national focal institutions from ECOWAS member states have converged on Accra to strategise on how to fight trafficking in persons’.
Participants in the three-day meeting would also assess the implementation of a plan of action which commenced in 2018 ... Read More