The United States has suspended most financial assistance to the central African country of Gabon in response to August’s military takeover. “The United States has concluded that a military coup d’état has taken place in Gabon,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement released Monday. Miller said the aid had been temporarily paused […]
An initiative to help reduce prostate cancer incidences in the country has been launched in Accra. It is estimated that an above-average number of African men contract and die from the disease and to change this, the develoPPP programme of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Bayer’s “Oncology Sustainability” initiative, together with the […]
For the second day in a row, trucks carrying aid have crossed from Egypt into war-torn Gaza, as Israel intensified strikes on the Palestinian enclave in the war sparked by Hamas’s bloody attack. Seventeen aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt on Sunday, to provide assistance to the Palestinian territory, which has been bombarded […]
Niger’s ousted president Mohamed Bazoum is with his family and is doing well, a relatives told AFP Sunday, after claims by the country’s new military rulers this week that he had tried to escape. “He is at the presidential residence [in Niamey] with his wife and son and is doing well,” the family member said, […]
Ghana and China will soon sign a cooperation agreement to explore investment opportunities in the railways, tourism, and other developmental projects in the Kumasi metropolis in the Ashanti region. Negotiations for collaboration are far advanced between the two countries for commercial rice farming, the construction of the railway linking the two seaports to the Boankra […]
The World Bank says Ghana may not achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on poverty reduction due to the recent global economic shocks. He indicated that the global health pandemic (COVID-19), the Russian-Ukraine War, and the global economic recession had stalled the country’s efforts to reduce poverty by 2030 as over a quarter of Ghanaians […]
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 […]
