The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, has asked  Governments and Development Partners to increase investment in the education, recruitment, deployment, retention and protection of midwives as the World celebrates the International Day of  Midwives ... Read More

The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Ghana, Irchad Razaaly, has urged local companies to incorporate renewable energy into their energy sources to address their power needs. He said renewable energy provided cleaner and environmentally friendly domestic electricity and also offered opportunities ... Read More

Karine Jean-Pierre President Biden has named Karine Jean-Pierre as his new top spokesperson - the first time a black, or openly gay, person has held the role. Ms Jean-Pierre, 44, has served as the administration's principal deputy press secretary since Mr Biden ... Read More

Tanzania’s president has called for a review of the East African country’s media laws and regulations, saying she wants to ensure measures “to protect journalists and open more space for freedom of expression and the media.” Samia Suluhu Hassan delivered her ... Read More

John Steenhuisen While South Africa’s African National Congress-led government has refused to condemn Russia’s war on Ukraine — preferring to take a neutral stance and calling for mediation — the Democratic Alliance Party’s John Steenhuisen isn’t mincing his words. He said seeing ... Read More

Russia pledged to observe a cease-fire Thursday in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, where its forces have controlled all but a steel plant complex where Ukrainian troops are holed up along with civilians the United Nations is working to evacuate. Russia ... Read More

When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office four years ago, Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based group that promotes press freedom, raised Ethiopia's ranking in its international press freedom index by 40 places. It was a giant leap forward after decades ... Read More

FILE - United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (C) delivers a speech at an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Ouallam, Niger, on May 3, 2022 during his visit to the country. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, at the start of a ... Read More

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission is investigating a video shared online that appears to show government troops abusing and shooting an ethnic Tigrayan boy. The four-minute video shows an alleged ethnic Tigray teenager being surrounded by men in Ethiopian army uniforms. ... Read More

Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday that he has asked for a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to stop the war in Ukraine but had not received a reply. The pontiff also told ... Read More