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White South Africans Going to US Are Cowards, Ramaphosa Says

  • May 15, 2025

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called a group of 59 white South Africans who have moved to the US to resettle “cowards”, saying “they’ll be back soon”. The group of Afrikaners arrived in the US on Monday after President Donald Trump granted them refugee status, saying they faced racial discrimination. But Ramaphosa said those who wanted to leave […]

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UN Chief Pleads With Countries to Pay Their Share For International Peacekeeping

  • May 14, 2025

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that the world body’s peacekeeping operation is “only as strong as member states’ commitment to it” as he pleaded with them Tuesday to pay their share. The United Nations’ peacekeeping department currently leads 11 operations, in countries including Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Lebanon, Cyprus and Kosovo. The […]

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WTO Chief Urges Cooperation in Japan Trade Talks

  • May 13, 2025

Director General of World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala met with the Japanese Prime Minister Tuesday during her three-day trip to Japan. “Trade is facing very challenging times right now and it is quite difficult,” she said during the meeting in Tokyo. The United States and China agreed to roll back most of the tariffs each […]

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President Mahama Calls For Unity to Tackle Africa’s Debt Crisis

  • May 13, 2025

President John Mahama has called for a united Africa to enable the continent to address its escalating debt crisis, adding that unsustainable borrowing risks undermining development gains and sovereignty. Delivering a keynote speech at the African Union (AU) High-Level Conference on Debt in Lomé, Togo, yesterday, the President described Africa’s debt burden as a “paradox […]

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Climate Change: Mahama Advocates Scaling up of Green/Blue Bonds Across Africa

  • May 13, 2025

As part of efforts to address climate change, President John Dramani has advocated the scaling up of green and blue bonds across the continent to finance environmental protection, clean energy, and sustainable agriculture.  “Ghana is exploring these options alongside broadening the tax base, digitizing revenue collection, and enhancing domestic capital markets to reduce dependency on […]