British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak might have emerged victorious from a bruising vote on his flagship Rwanda migration policy, but the bitter divisions that risk turning his party into a “circus” mean any respite is likely to be short lived. A day of high drama at Westminster on Tuesday culminated in a comfortable win for […]
The United States intends to resume security and development cooperation with Niger provided it takes steps to restore democracy, a U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday after meeting the military leaders who took power in a coup in July. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee said she had met the top ministers in […]
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, […]
