Niger’s junta threatened to kill ousted President Mohamed Bazoum if neighboring countries attempt any military intervention to restore his rule, two Western officials said. Representatives of the junta reportedly told U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland during her visit to the country this week that they would kill Bazoum if a foreign intervention was attempted, […]
Donald Trump and his close personal aide Walt Nauta have pleaded not guilty to the latest allegations in the federal classified documents case. The fresh charges accuse the two men and a third aide of conspiring to conceal surveillance footage at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort from the FBI. The former president, 77, and Mr Nauta […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently tracking several COVID-19 “variants of interest”, including EG.5 which is on the rise in several countries, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva on Wednesday. “The risk remains of a more dangerous variant emerging that could cause a sudden increase in cases and deaths,” Tedros said, adding that […]
Ghana is hosting an inter-departmental meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to dissect the draft Supplementary Act aimed at suppressing illicit maritime activities in the cub-region. Participants at the four-day meeting in Accra would analyse the Act, which is designed to foster international cooperation in the fight against maritime crime and […]
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is very concerned about the reported “deplorable living conditions” of Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum and his family in arbitrary detention, a U.N. spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday. “The Secretary-General reiterates his concern over the health and safety of the President and his family and once again calls for his […]
Sexual violence is being committed in Sudan on a “sickening scale,” while fighting in the Darfur region is reopening “old wounds of ethnic tension” that could engulf the country, United Nations officials told the Security Council on Wednesday. “The alarming accounts of sexual violence that are heard from people who have fled to Port Sudan […]
A senior United Nations official for Africa called Wednesday for a negotiated solution to the conflict in Sudan, saying there is no alternative. “Calls by some to continue the war in order to achieve a military victory will only contribute to destroying the country,” U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Pobee, told the U.N. Security […]
The World Bank said it will not consider new loans to Uganda after the East African country earlier this year enacted an anti-gay bill that rights groups and others have condemned. The World Bank had deployed a team to Uganda after the law was enacted in May and determined that additional measures were necessary to […]
Delta Air Lines and Kenya Airways PLC are expanding their strategic partnership to include Kenya Airways’ nonstop Nairobi-to-New York service, effective Saturday, August 5. The expanded partnership also offers customers more travel options within the United States of America and Africa. This will bring on board 31 additional single connect destinations in Africa and another […]
China has invested $155 billion in infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa over the last two decades, according to research. A Chinese academic, Professor Wang Yiwei, Director of Renmin University of China’s Institute of International Affairs, has urged African leaders to work together to maximize the benefits of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for long-term […]
