Ethiopia and the European Union signed a cooperation agreement worth 650 million euros ($680 million), on Tuesday (Oct. 3). Jutta Urpilainen, the EU commissioner for international partnerships, announced the agreement during a press conference with Ethiopian Finance Minister Ahmed Side in the capital, Addis Ababa. “It is time to gradually normalize relations and rebuild a […]
Kenyan President William Ruto has welcomed a new resolution approved Monday by the U.N. Security Council authorizing a foreign security mission to intervene in Haiti. Ruto said he hopes the so-called Multinational Security Support Mission his country is leading will provide a different footprint in the history of international interventions in Haiti. In a taped […]
For the first time in U.S. history, U.S. lawmakers voted Tuesday to remove the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from power. Republican Kevin McCarthy was removed from his position as speaker in a 216-210 vote triggered by a rare challenge from his own party. The House cannot hold votes until a new speaker […]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi on Monday confirmed he will run for a new term in elections scheduled for December. The president announced his candidacy at the end of a three-day national conference called the “Story of Homeland” attended by the country’s leading politicians and broadcast by Egypt’s Extra News television channel, which has close […]
The Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbados, Arthur Holder, said the 66th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference was crucial for it will help re-examine the principles underpinning democracy among the commonwealths. “It is a conference that will enhance democracy and promote collaboration among Commonwealth nations because no country is an island,” he told journalists after […]
The World Health Organization on Monday announced the recommendation of a second malaria vaccine, with the aim of giving countries a cheaper and more readily available option to tackle the deadly disease. Developed by Oxford University with the help of the Serum Institute of India, the new vaccine, known as R-21, will be rolled out […]
On assuming her post as the new director general of the International Organization for Migration, Amy Pope said that one of her main priorities was to build more regular pathways for migration for people who have lost hope for a viable future and cannot stay home. “I am taking the helm of IOM at a […]
Former President Donald Trump appeared in a New York state court on Monday, where a judge is considering a case that could result in the dissolution of his considerable business interests in the state and a ban against Trump and his two adult sons ever doing business there again. The case, which has been in […]
The African Development Bank has launched a digital platform to help drive business linkages in Madagascar, the island country southeast of Africa. The Mada Business Linkage is a B2B digital platform that interconnects registered businesses operating in Madagascar. A statement issued by the Bank said launched in the capital, Antananarivo, it targeted companies looking for […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that “democracy in West Africa is in danger”, and has therefore charged the ECOWAS Parliament to “work harder to entrench the principles of democratic accountability in the citizens”. The President said democracy in the region had been seriously subverted by “the attempted confiscation of democracy by elites, who engage, […]
