Leaders from more than a dozen African countries are heading to Germany for the G20 Compact with Africa conference, which aims to help bolster private investment in the world’s poorest, but fast-growing, continent. Underscoring renewed interest in Africa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte […]
Sudan has informed the U.N. chief of the “immediate” end of the United Nations political mission in the war-torn country, according to a letter circulated in the Security Council. In an official letter in Arabic dated Thursday, accompanied by an English version from the Sudanese ambassador to the U.N., Foreign Minister Ali Elsadig Ali informed […]
South Africa has requested that the International Criminal Court in The Hague investigate alleged Israeli war crimes in its war with Hamas. President Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement while on a state visit to Qatar, where he said he had spoken to the country’s ruler about the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza. “We both abhorred […]
A third round of United Nations negotiations to try to deliver the world’s first treaty to control plastic pollution has drawn more than 500 proposals from those involved, participants said on the last day of the talks on Sunday. Negotiators, who have spent a week meeting in the Kenyan capital at talks known as INC3, […]
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin slipped unannounced into Kyiv on Monday in a brazen display of Western solidarity to reassure Ukrainian leaders that the United States will continue to support their country’s fight against Russia’s invasion. Austin was greeted at the train station in Kyiv by the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, and the […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) have commenced a weeklong pest risks analysis training workshop for officers from National Plant Protection Organisation in the sub-region and the Sahel. The training formed part of the PlantwisePlus training programme, led by CABI, which aimed to help […]
Madam Virginia Palmer, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, has cut the sod for a new state-of-the-art maternal and child centre at the HopeXchange Medical Center in Kumasi. The new maternal and child centre will include a labour and delivery suite, neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, inpatient and outpatient wards, and an adolescent clinic. The HopeXchange […]
Madam Virginia Palmer, United States (US) Ambassador to Ghana, has joined local officials in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, to open a new American Corner secretariat in the region. The American Corner Kumasi will be a cultural and information center that provides free and open access for young Ghanaians to learn more about the United States, attend […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Thursday that it had filed a formal complaint with the Ethiopian government after two of its staff members were arrested in Addis Ababa last month. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Abidjan-based institution said they were “unlawfully arrested, physically assaulted, and detained for many hours by elements […]
Niger’s military junta chief, who came to power in a July coup, officially set up on Thursday an anti-corruption commission and a state court. State TV broadcast live the two ceremonies to formally establish the transition bodies. Members of the court and commission two new bodies swore an oath in front of new strongman, General […]
