More than 600 million women and girls are now affected by war, a 50% increase from a decade ago, and they fear the world has forgotten them amid an escalating backlash against women’s rights and gender equality, top United Nations officials say. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a new report that amid record levels […]
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are headed into the final full week of campaigning ahead of the November 5 presidential election. Both are looking for any small advantage they can gain to woo the sliver of voters who have not made up their minds in what could be one of […]
Ghana’s Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has been elected as the next Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. She was selected at the 27th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (#CHOGM2024) in Apia, the capital city of the Pacific Island nation of Samoa. Currently the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in Ghana, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey will take over from the […]
Mr Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in-charge of Political and Economic matters, has congratulated the United Nations (UN) on its 79th anniversary celebration. Speaking at the UN Day parade and flag raising ceremony at the forecourt of the State House in Accra, Mr Ampratwum-Sarpong reaffirmed Ghana’s commitment towards the […]
As the globe marks World Polio day, Africa has recorded 134 new polio cases in at least seven countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced. The regional director of the WHO for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, stated that the circulating variant of polio type 2 has been detected in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, […]
Ethiopian Prime minister Abiy Ahmed who is attending his first BRIC summit as a member nation met Russian president Vladimir Putin for a bilateral meeting on Wednesday (Oct. 23). The Russian leader called Ethiopia’s integration into the group an ‘important step’, hailing the nations’ proximity. Their diplomatic ties date back more than a century. “Our […]
The leaders of the Commonwealth group of nations will meet at a welcome banquet in Samoa in the South Pacific on Thursday, with climate change and reparations for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade on the agenda of summit discussions. Leaders and officials from 56 countries with roots in Britain’s empire, as well as […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied was inaugurated for a second term following a tumultuous first term in which he suspended parliament, jailed his critics and rewrote the country’s constitution. In his inaugural address Monday before parliament, Saied called for a “cultural revolution” designed to fight terrorism, reduce unemployment and erase corruption. “The aim is to build […]
The IMF projects that Ghana will end 2024 with a growth rate of 3%, according to the World Economic Outlook Report released in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday during the IMF/World Bank meetings. This aligns with the Government of Ghana’s forecast of a 3.1% GDP growth rate as stated in the 2024 Budget. IMF’s Growth Projections […]
The South African Minister of International Relations and cooperation spoke positively about bilateral relations between Moscow and Beijing, ahead of the BRICS summit of emerging economies that kicked off on Tuesday in Russia. Ronald Lamola described the relationship between the two nations as based on mutual trust, and said that South Africa is open to […]
