The Cairo meeting attended by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and EU commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen culminated in the signing of deals worth billions of dollars. The conference comes on the back of a $7.9 billion funding package agreed in March to support the north African country battle an economic crisis made worse by […]
The President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides says he shares the vision of Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey for the Commonwealth. Diplomats disclosed this following a meeting President Christodoulides hosted, Wednesday, at his office in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia, to discuss bilateral and multilateral issues with Ms Botchwey. Ms Botchwey, one of Africa’s top diplomats, is […]
EU leaders have formally nominated Ursula von der Leyen for a second term as president of the European Commission, European Council President Charles Michel confirmed on Thursday. Von der Leyen’s nomination was informally agreed on Tuesday, but the formal decision was taken at Thursday’s EU summit in Brussels. Under the deal, former Portuguese prime minister António Costa […]
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa named a new Cabinet on sunday evening after his African National Congress, the former main opposition party, and nine other parties agreed on the makeup of a coalition government of South Africa’s seventh administration following weeks of haggling. Ramaphosa’s announcement of his new, “unprecedented” multi-party Cabinet came a month after […]
