South African President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed the Dutch royal couple, King Willem-Alexander and his wife Queen Máxima of the Netherlands at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Thursday. Their majesties were on a state visit at the invitation of the president to focus on strengthening the ties and partnership between the Netherlands and South Africa. […]
As the death toll and suffering mounts for Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, the U.N. Security Council remained blocked Wednesday on trying to bring any relief to them, while the Israeli and Palestinian envoys traded accusations. “The pace of death, of suffering, of destruction, of breaches of international law cannot be exaggerated,” U.N. humanitarian […]
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that limited humanitarian assistance to Palestinians living in Gaza is not enough, it must be ongoing and at scale. “It is not one small operation that is required; it is a sustained effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza,” Guterres told reporters in Cairo, where he […]
Niger’s junta said Thursday that it had thwarted an escape attempt by ousted President Mohamed Bazoum who has been imprisoned by the military since a July 26 coup despite international calls for his release. The interim authorities said that Bazoum and his family, with the help of accomplices in the security forces, planned to drive […]
The number of Ghanaians living in extreme poverty has increased since last year, with over a quarter of the population presently living on less than two dollars (GH¢24) a day, the World Bank Country Director, Pierre Laporte, has said. Inflation over the past couple of years, he said, had eroded the purchasing power of Ghanaian […]
Gabon’s military leader Gen Brice Oligui Nguema has given up his salary as president and will only receive a wage as commander of the republican guard. He became the interim president following the overthrow of President Ali Bongo in August this year. junta spokesperson in an announcement on Wednesday said Gen Nguema took the decision […]
The Japanese government has signed a grant agreement with four local government authorities to construct school blocks and community-based health planning and services (CHPS) compounds worth $289,410 in the beneficiary areas. They are the Offinso Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti Region, the Pru West District Assembly in the Bono East Region, the Wassa Amenfi Central […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has received the letters of credence of six envoys at the Jubilee House in Accra. They were the Ambassadors of Burkina Faso, David Kabre; Peru, Rose Liliana Gomez Cardenas De Weston, and the High Commissioner of Zambia, Daniel Mahongo. The others were the Ambassador of Thailand, Kittisak Klomchit; the High […]
Chinese president Xi Jinping opened the Belt and Road forum in Beijing on Wednesday, with a message that China “can only do well when the world is doing well”. China is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which has extended Chinese economic and geopolitical influence across the globe. In his […]
The African Union Commission has fallen victim to cybercrime after fraudsters deployed artificial intelligence tools to impersonate the continental body’s head Moussa Faki. Mr Faki who is the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, the secretariat of the African Union routinely writes to global leaders whenever he needs to place a call. Such a letter […]
