Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong said Friday the government will resume funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which is providing humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza. In January, Australia joined several Western nations in suspending funding to UNRWA after Israeli intelligence suggested a dozen of its workers had been linked to […]
A major internet outage struck West and Central Africa on Thursday, as reported by the internet observatory Netblocks, which cited information from operators indicating multiple subsea cable failures. The precise cause of these failures remains unclear at this time. According to Netblocks data, Ivory Coast faced a severe outage, while Liberia, Benin, Ghana, and Burkina […]
The British government is planning to pay asylum seekers up to 3,000 pounds ($3,836) each to move to Rwanda under a voluntary plan to help clear the backlog of refugees who have had their applications to remain in the country rejected. The new agreement with Rwanda is separate from the government’s stalled plan to forcibly […]
Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, meaning chocolate prices around the world are likely to soar. Chocolate-makers have already increased prices to consumers, after three years of poor cocoa harvests, with a fourth expected, in the […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Israel must make the welfare of Palestinian civilians “job number one” in its conduct of the war against Hamas in Gaza. “We look to the government of Israel to make sure this is a priority – protecting civilians, getting people the assistance they need,” he told […]
To ensure that their various capacities-building programmes yield the desired results, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has presented medical equipment and medicines to health facilities in the four northern regions. The medicines and facilities worth GH¢12.6 million were presented in Wa in the Upper West Region last Monday to the Upper West, […]
Some residents of Abelenkpe in the Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly of the Greater Accra Region are unhappy with the vehicular and human congestion caused by the large crowd of Canadian visa applicants in their community. A visit by the Daily Graphic to the community saw a lot of people at the Baptist Convention Building, which […]
The head of the African Development Bank has urged African countries to put an end to natural resource-backed loans in an interview to the Associated Press. Akinwumi Adesina called the deals bad and pointed to a bank initiative that helps countries renegotiate them. “The risk that one has with natural resource-backed loans, as far as […]
The number of children worldwide who died before age 5 reached a record low in 2022, the United Nations said in a report published Tuesday, as for the first time fewer than 5 million died. According to the estimate, 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2022, a 51% decrease since 2000 and […]
A Spanish charity ship carrying 200 tons of humanitarian food aid set sail from Cyprus to Gaza on Tuesday, the latest effort to feed tens of thousands of starving Palestinians as fighting between Israel and Hamas militants rages on. The food, gathered by World Central Kitchen, the charity founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres, was […]
