Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said relations between Russia and South Sudan were developing “intensively”. Speaking at a meeting with the South Sudan President Salva Kiir in Moscow, Putin noted Russia was one of the first countries to recognise the sovereignty and independence of South Sudan. “I must say we believe that we have […]
More than 2,500 migrants died or went missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far in 2023, a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees official said Thursday. “By September 24, over 2,500 people were accounted as dead or missing in 2023 alone,” Ruven Menikdiwela, director of the UNHCR New York office, told the […]
At least a dozen Niger soldiers were killed in connection with an attack by hundreds of armed insurgents on motorbikes in the country’s southwest on Thursday morning, the West African nation’s defense ministry said in a statement. Seven soldiers were killed in combat while five others died in an accident while driving to reinforce the […]
Ghana’s Parliament will host the 66th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) at the Accra International Conference Centre in Accra from September 30 to October 6, 2023. The event will be held on the theme: “The Commonwealth Charter 10 years on: Values and principles for Parliaments to uphold”. It is billed to attract 600 delegates, including speakers […]
The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, will on September 24, 2023 leave Ghana for the United States of America where he will deliver speeches to faculty members and students of two universities in Boston, Massachusetts. The Northeastern University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have invited the Okyenhene on the back of the immense leadership role he […]
France’s ambassador to Niger has landed in Paris after weeks of tensions with the new military government in the West African country that demanded his expulsion following the overthrow of democratically-elected leader President Mohamed Bazoum. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna met Sylvain Itte “to thank him and his teams for his work in the service of our […]
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin returns to the United States Thursday after wrapping up his first tour across the African continent as Pentagon chief. Austin started his tour in Djibouti, home to the primary U.S. military base on the African continent. There he met with Djiboutian leaders and Somalia’s president, whose forces, Austin said, had […]
Burkina Faso’s military government said Wednesday it had foiled a coup attempt the previous day, almost a year after the country’s leader came to power in a coup himself. In a statement read out on state television, it said “a proven coup attempt was foiled on September 26, 2023, by Burkina Faso’s intelligence and security […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced visa restrictions for individuals who he said were “undermining democracy” in Liberia ahead of the country’s elections in October. THE TAKE Blinken in a statement released by the U.S. State Department did not specify how many people were affected or identify them. The move restricts their […]
About 500 Wagner mercenaries who fought alongside Russian troops in Ukraine before fleeing to Belarus after a short-lived mutiny in June have now returned to the front lines to again fight Kyiv’s forces, a Ukrainian Army spokesman said Wednesday. Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in Russia last month, raising questions […]
