U.S. troops have completed a withdrawal from their base in Niger’s capital of Niamey and will fully depart from Agadez in the north before a Sept. 15 deadline set by the country’s military rulers, both countries said Sunday. Niger’s military leaders scrapped a military cooperation deal with Washington in March, after seizing power in a […]
The European Union (EU) has awarded a grant of €3.2 million to support vaccine manufacturing and the pharmaceutical industry in the country. The grant was made possible through the government, under a Special Measure on Manufacturing and Access to Vaccines, Medicines and Health Technologies in Africa (MAV+) programme. The support would help to establish a […]
The Council of the Arab League has tasked its group at the UN with studying steps to freeze Israel’s participation in the body’s General Assembly. The bloc which held an extraordinary session in Cairo Thursday (Jul. 4), said Israel failed to adhere to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. The Palestinian Permanent Representative […]
Authorities in the central African nation say technical issues made it impossible for the country to keep its commitments by June 30. In an undated statement, the ministry of public accounts said arrears were paid back to the World Bank. This comes after a confidential World Bank note was leaked and went viral. The document, […]
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday he was expecting about $10.5 billion in financial aid in the coming years once the country wraps up negotiations with international lending institutions. Africa’s second most populous nation, battered in recent years by several armed conflicts, the COVID pandemic, and climate shocks, has been engaged in drawn-out […]
The United States government through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has commissioned an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) center in the Nanton District of the Northern Region and provided teaching and learning materials to improve education quality in the north. The ICT center is the first of its kind in the district and […]
Ghana has signed an agreement establishing cooperation in science, technology and innovation with Turkey. The pact is to serve as a legal framework for the achievement of science and technology ambitions of the two countries. The agreement was signed between the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) and The Scientific and Technological Research […]
The US Ambassador to Ghana, Virginia Palmer, has lauded the Ga Mantse, Nii Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, for his exceptional leadership qualities. The US envoy said Nii Teiko Tsuru had demonstrated unique leadership qualities since assuming office, and needed to be commended. The American diplomat paid a courtesy call on the Ga Traditional Council in Accra […]
U.S. President Joe Biden defiantly vowed Wednesday to keep running for reelection, pushing back against growing sentiment that his faltering debate performance had doomed his candidacy and that he should withdraw from the campaign leading to the November 5 election. “I am running. I am the leader of the Democratic Party. No one is pushing […]
Tunisia is set to conduct a presidential election on October 6, as confirmed by President Kais Saied’s office on Tuesday. It remains uncertain whether Saied will run for a new five-year term following his initial election in 2019. Saied, an expert in constitutional matters, assumed complete authority over the nation in 2021, governing through decrees […]
