The number of delegates at this year’s UN climate talks who are also linked to fossil fuel producers has quadrupled since last year, campaigners say. Around 2,400 people connected to the coal, oil and gas industries have been registered for the COP28 climate talks. This record number is more than the total attendees from the […]
Multiple African governments have justified their decision to send substantial delegations to the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, despite facing widespread criticism. According to the UN’s attendance list, Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, and Uganda were among the nations with the largest teams. Nigeria topped the list with 1,411 delegates, followed by Morocco with 823 […]
Britain is continuing its efforts to have migrants seeking asylum in Britain sent instead to Rwanda to seek asylum there. In the latest version, Britain would have British lawyers stationed in Rwandan courts to alleviate British concerns about the workings of the system in Rwanda. Britain’s Supreme Court has already ruled that an earlier government […]
Military-ruled Burkina Faso on Saturday suspended “all distribution methods” of Le Monde daily after an article on a deadly jihadi attack in the north, in the latest measure against a French media organization. “The government has decided to suspend all distribution methods of the newspaper Le Monde in Burkina Faso starting from Saturday, December 2, 2023,” Communication Minister Rimtalba […]
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed his extreme alarm Monday about the resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, including Hamas rocket fire on Israel and the renewal and expansion of Israel’s airstrikes and military ground operations into the southern Gaza Strip. “The U.N. continues to appeal to Israeli forces to avoid further action that would […]
The president of the ongoing UN climate talks Sultan al-Jaber has hit back at claims that he denies a core part of climate science. It follows his earlier comments that there was “no science” behind requiring the end of fossil fuels in order to limit temperature rise to 1.5C. “We very much believe and respect […]
President Nana Akufo- Addo says it is imperative that the newly established Loss and Damage Fund must be free from the bureaucratic hurdles that have hindered speedy resource allocation of other climate funds. He said the fund which was a crucial element to the collective response of countries to climate change must also be agile […]
Climate experts were impressed with discussions on the first day of COP28 in Dubai on Thursday, as nearly all nations finalised the creation of a fund to help compensate countries struggling to cope with loss and damage caused by climate change. Sultan al-Jaber, the president of the COP28 climate conference, hailed “the first decision to […]
On Friday (Dec. 01), South Africa’s President urged world leaders, gathered for the COP28 in, to do more for vunerable countries that disproportionately bear of impact of the climate crisis. “African countries are among the most vulnerable to the effects of a rapidly changing climate and have to adapt and build resilience within the context […]
More than 600 dignitaries and high-profile personalities from about 100 countries across the globe are arriving in Accra today to participate in the first United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting to be hosted on the African continent. The Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Accra yesterday, said the two-day […]
