The fate of a proposal to temporarily halt fighting in Gaza, increase humanitarian aid and set free some hostages held by Hamas remained uncertain Tuesday, with Hamas yet to respond to the proposal, Israeli officials questioning some of the details and the United States seeking U.N. Security Council support for the deal’s acceptance and implementation. […]
Britain intends to begin deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda on July 24, a government lawyer said on Monday, although the hotly contested scheme is dependent on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party winning the upcoming election. Sending asylum seekers who have arrived in Britain without permission to Rwanda is one of Sunak’s flagship policies, but […]
A project on climate change has revealed that changes in weather conditions have caused more people to migrate from the Upper West Region and some parts of Savannah to other regions for better livelihoods. The research also found out that climate change was changing gender roles in both positive and negative ways. Titled: ‘The Resilience Against […]
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, has indicated that the commission is dispatching its Special Envoy for Counter Terrorism, Ambassador Baba Kamara, to terrorism stricken areas in the sub-region. It is believed that Baba Kamara, a former Ghanaian National Security Advisor’s visit to these countries, is to ascertain at first hand […]
The Electoral Commission of South Africa Sunday night announced official results that marked the start of a new era in the country’s politics. Official results from Wednesday’s historic election showed the governing African National Congress, ANC, had lost its absolute majority for the first time. The ANC won 159 seats in the 400-member National Assembly […]
The number of people fleeing their homes because of war, violence and persecution has reached 114 million and is climbing because nations have failed to tackle the causes and combatants are refusing to comply with international law, the U.N. refugee chief said Thursday. In a hard-hitting speech, Filippo Grandi criticized the U.N. Security Council, which […]
Meet Ace-Liam Ankrah, a Ghana toddler who has set the record as the world’s youngest male artist. His mother, Chantelle Kukua Eghan, says it all started by accident when her son, who at the time was 6 months old, discovered her acrylic paints. Eghan, an artist and founder of Arts and Cocktails Studio, a bar […]
Counting began after South Africans voted Wednesday in an election seen as their country’s most important since apartheid ended 30 years ago. The election was held on one day and polls closed after 14 hours of voting at more than 23,000 stations across South Africa’s nine provinces. Officials were gearing up for counting but the […]
Nigeria adopted a new national anthem on Wednesday May 29 after lawmakers passed a law that replaced the current one with a version dropped nearly a half-century ago. This development has sparked widespread criticism about how the law was hastily passed without much public input. President Bola Tinubu’s assent to the law comes a day […]
Action must be taken immediately to address the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel or other countries will be drawn in and it will “become a problem for the world,” a UNHCR official warned Wednesday. The volatile situations in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso risks overflowing into neighboring countries, the U.N. refugee agency’s director for west […]
