The ongoing war is Sudan has crippled the country’s health system. Seven-year-old Mohammed is homeless. He began showing symptoms of an enlarged spleen and severe anaemia at the age of two. The hospital in Khartoum where the boy used to receive care was destroyed in the conflict and his family fled for safety to Port-Sudan […]
Pope Francis renewed his call for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine on Sunday. “I renew my appeal not to give in to the logic of claiming war,” Francis told a gathered audience in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican City. “I pray every day for peace in Palestine and Israel and I hope […]
Two senior United Nations officials raised the alarm Friday that an attack on the North Darfur capital of El Fasher could be imminent and may trigger a deadly intercommunal conflict across Darfur. “In Darfur, recent reports indicate a possible imminent RSF attack on El Fasher, raising the specter of a new front in the conflict,” […]
The United States will withdraw its troops from Niger, a source familiar with the matter said late on Friday, adding that an agreement was reached between U.S Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Niger’s leadership. As of last year, there were a little more than 1,000 U.S. troops in Niger, where the U.S. military […]
The World Bank Group (WBG) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group have committed to providing at least 300 million people in Africa with electricity access by 2030. While the World Bank would work to connect 250 million people to electricity through distributed renewable energy systems or the distribution grid, the AfDB would provide additional […]
The US Embassy and Emerging Public Leaders, an organization that strengthens public institutions to create change, have collaborated to train public officials in Ghana’s public safety sector on conflict management. The one-year training program, dubbed “the Professionals Engaged Against Conflict & Endangerment (PEACE) programme,” is being implemented by Ghana-based Emerging Public Leaders and seeks to […]
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has hosted Mr Robert Beugré Mambé, the Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire, at the Jubilee House, ahead of the inauguration of the Headquarters of the Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative. The leaders held fruitful discussions regarding the ongoing co-operation in cocoa production for the mutual benefit of the two nations. The Côte […]
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Alieu Touray, has approved the deployment of a Fact-Finding Mission to Togo ahead of the legislative and regional elections scheduled for April 29, 2024. ECOWAS in a statement dated April 16, 2024, said the Mission will undertake a pre-electoral assessment in accordance with community texts and will not […]
A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was “impossible” without human-induced climate change, scientists say. Temperatures soared above 48C in Mali last month with one hospital linking hundreds of deaths to the extreme heat. Researchers say human activities like burning fossil fuels made temperatures up to 1.4C hotter than normal. A separate study […]
Burkina Faso’s military junta has expelled three French diplomats for “subversive activities,” according to a government statement Thursday. The diplomats, two of whom are political advisers, were given 48 hours to leave and no additional details were shared about the alleged subversive activities. The French foreign ministry responded in a statement, saying it rejects the […]
