Mali Closes Borders After ECOWAS Sanctions For Delayed Polls...
Colonel Assimi Goita, leader of Malian military junta, attends an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) consultative meeting in Accra, Ghana, Sept. 15, 2020.
Mali's military government on Monday responded to West African sanctions by closing its borders and withdrawing ... Read More
Spain PM Urges Europe To Treat COVID As More ‘Endemic&...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Monday he plans to ask European officials to consider treating COVID-19 more like an endemic illness — a regularly occurring milder disease like the flu — and move away from the detailed tracking system ... Read More
US, Russia Hold ‘Frank and Forthright’ First Day...
Vladimir Putin - Russia President
The U.S. and Russia have launched "frank and forthright" discussions aimed at de-escalating tensions between the two powers as Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to station an estimated 100,000 troops along the Ukrainian border, the White ... Read More
Man Gets Genetically-Modified Pig Heart In World-First Trans...
Surgeon Bartley P. Griffith pictured with David Bennett earlier this month
A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig.
David Bennett, 57, is doing well three days after the experimental ... Read More
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee: Celebration Plans Unveiled b...
Queen Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace has unveiled the full line-up of celebrations to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this year.
Street parties, a concert with some of the world's "biggest entertainment stars" and a chance to see the Queen's homes up close ... Read More
Protesters Denounce Mali Government’s 5-Year Transition
Mali's military government proposed in December a 5-year extension of the transition to civilian rule, after originally agreeing to a period of 18 months. Protesters gathered Saturday in Bamako to call for a return to democracy, ahead of an ECOWAS ... Read More
UN: Aid Agencies Suspend Work In Tigray Area Hit By Deadly S...
Aid agencies have suspended operations in an area of Ethiopia's stricken Tigray region where a deadly air strike hit a camp for people displaced by the country's 14-month war, the U.N. said Sunday.
The raid came only hours after the Ethiopian ... Read More
ECOWAS Holds Extraordinary Summit On The Political Situation...
President Akufo-Addo
The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will hold an Extraordinary Summit on the Political Situation in the Republic of Mali, today, January 09, 2022, in Accra.
The Heads of ... Read More
Aung San Suu Kyi: Ousted Myanmar Leader Jailed For Another F...
The Nobel laureate has been in custody since a military coup last February
A court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison, in the latest of a series of trials.
She was convicted ... Read More
US Names David Satterfield New Special Envoy For Horn Of Afr...
David Satterfield
US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman will step down from his post the role “in the coming days” after a year marked by deadly crises in Ethiopia and Sudan.
Feltman plans to leave his post shortly ... Read More