Liberia Native Finds Her Footing As New Colorado Lawmaker
Naquetta Ricks fled Liberia’s civil war as a girl. In early 2021, she began her first term in the Colorado General Assembly. (Betty Ayoub/VOA)
Naquetta Ricks was 13 years old when three soldiers came to her family’s home in Monrovia, Liberia, ... Read More
UN Announces $40 Million To Support Ethiopia Humanitarian Ai...
U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths allocated $40 million on Monday to support life-saving aid and civilian protection efforts in Ethiopia amidst ongoing conflict and drought.
According to an announcement from the U.N., $25 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund will ... Read More
Danny Fenster: US Journalist Freed From Myanmar Jail
Danny Fenster
US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar after he was sentenced to 11 years in jail by a military court three days ago.
His employer, English-language news site Frontier Myanmar, said he was on a flight ... Read More
Akufo-Addo Applauds 63 Years Of Ghana’s Co-operation With ...
President Akufo-Addo has expressed Ghana’s pride in its membership of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The President made this known in a speech at the 75th Anniversary celebration of the founding of UNESCO, on Friday, in Paris, ... Read More
Gaddafi’s Son To Run For President Of Libya
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi, has registered as a presidential candidate for the country’s December election, an official from the electoral commission said.
“Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi submitted … his candidacy for the presidential election ... Read More
More Than 600 Migrants Reach Italy By Sea From North Africa
More than 600 migrants, many of them Egyptians, arrived in southern Italy over the past 24 hours, officials said on Sunday, defying stormy winter seas in search of a better life in Europe.
Italy has seen a sharp increase in boat ... Read More
Biden To Sign $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
Joe Biden
U.S. President Joe Biden is hosting a ceremony Monday at the White House where he will sign a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill that earned final passage in Congress after months of negotiations.
The legislation calls for massive spending across ... Read More
Covid: Austria Introduces Lockdown For Unvaccinated
About 65% of Austria's population is fully vaccinated
About two million people who have not been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 have been placed in lockdown in Austria as the country faces a surge in cases.
"We are not taking this step lightly, ... Read More
UNICEF Calls On Government To Ratify Optional Protocol
United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has asked Ghana to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of children, Child prostitution and Pornography.
Ms Anne Clair-Dufay, the UNICEF Country Representative to Ghana, said ... Read More
Akufo-Addo Off To UNESCO’s 75th Anniversary In Paris
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Thursday, 11th November 2021, to lead the Ghanaian delegation to attend, at the invitation of UNESCO’s Director General, Audrey Azoulay, the 75th anniversary ceremony of the founding of ... Read More