Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit on Wednesday to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, a first of its kind deal signaling the eventual end of the oil age. The deal struck in Dubai after two weeks of hard-fought negotiations was meant […]
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s contentious emergency legislation to allow asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda passed its first parliamentary hurdle on Tuesday. Lawmakers in the House of Commons voted by 313 to 269 in favour of the bill, which was designed to address concerns raised by the UK Supreme Court which last month […]
Egyptians cast their ballots on Tuesday on the third and final day of a presidential election expected to give President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a sweeping victory and a new six-year term in the absence of real competition. Many Egyptians have shown little interest in the election, saying they believe that voting will make little difference, […]
A record 49.5 million people are expected to go hungry in West and Central Africa next year due to a combination of conflict, climate change and high food prices, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The figure is 4% higher than in 2023. In coastal countries, the number of people facing acute hunger is expected […]
Kenya is “out of the danger of over-indebtedness”, claimed its president, William Ruto, on Tuesday, praising his economic policy despite public anger at tax hikes and subsidy cuts. The country of 53 million inhabitants, the economic powerhouse of East Africa, is now “out of the danger of over-indebtedness”, said the head of state in Nairobi […]
Rwanda will hold presidential and parliamentary polls on July 15 next year, the election commission said Tuesday, with President Paul Kagame due to run for a fourth term in office. “Throughout the country, the polling date for the president of the Republic and 53 deputies elected from a list proposed by political organizations or for […]
On Tuesday, international NGOs working in Niger called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to ease its sanctions against Niamey to allow emergency humanitarian aid to enter from neighbouring Benin. The twenty or so organisations are calling for the “immediate reopening” of the border with Benin, which has been blocked because of […]
UN Secretary General António Guterres issued an urgent appeal on Monday to the CO28 World Climate Conference in Dubai to “end the fossil fuel age.” The time had now come for maximum ambition and maximum flexibility, Guterres told a press conference in Dubai. Ministers and lead negotiators had to leave behind them arbitrary red lines, […]
Ethiopia will hold a call with its international bondholders on Thursday, a senior finance ministry official said, as the country is careening toward default, having said last week that it could not pay a $33 million bond coupon due on Monday. The finance ministry said on Friday that talks with a group of bondholders had broken down […]
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was scrambling on Monday to get enough support for his flagship immigration policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda after some lawmakers in his party said a planned emergency law was not tough enough. Sunak is facing a critical test of his authority with politicians on the right and the […]
