Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, on Monday began a four-day official visit to Beirut, Lebanon to explore areas of cooperation and collaboration. Whilst there, she held a meeting with her Lebanese counterpart, Mr Abdallah Bou Habib, during which both ministers highlighted the need to explore other areas of […]
The Chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC), Christopher T. Hanson, has led a team from the commission to visit the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) to interact with the management and staff. The two-day working visit was also to reaffirm the commission’s commitment to continue close cooperation on nuclear safety and regulation with the […]
The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa) has advised the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to resort to dialogue in resolving the political impasse in Niger. It said it was imperative that the regional bloc reversed its earlier course of using the military to intervene in the crisis. Such […]
The World Food Program has started distributing food aid in Ethiopia’s war-scarred Tigray region in a test of new monitoring measures, the United Nations agency said on Tuesday. WFP and U.S. aid agency USAID halted food aid to Africa’s second-most populous country in June after discovering that supplies were not reaching those in need, raising […]
Additional sanctions were levied against Niger on Tuesday, hours after its military leaders rejected the latest diplomatic efforts by a joint delegation from West African states, the African Union and the United Nations. The junta leaders denied the delegation entry, saying a “climate of threatened aggression” made it impossible to hold talks on ending the […]
A federal judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election has ordered his attorneys and federal prosecutors to appear in court on Friday for a hearing to help determine how evidence can be used and shared in the case. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan set […]
Niger’s military coup leaders announced the appointment of Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine as prime minister on Monday evening in a statement read out on national television, at a time when the international community is seeking to restore constitutional order. “Mr (Ali Mahaman) Lamine Zeine has been appointed Prime Minister”, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane reported. As […]
The ECOWAS group of West African states have convened another Extraordinary Summit on Thursday, August 10 on the political situation in Niger. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the President of Nigeria and Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has convened the meeting, expected to […]
The Republic of Namibia is understudying Ghana in the utilisation of oil proceeds for the benefit of its citizens. In line with that, a delegation from the Upper House of Parliament of Namibia paid a courtesy call on the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) in Accra to understand petroleum revenue management and its maximisation […]
Russia’s Wagner mercenary group is “taking advantage” of instability in Niger, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told the BBC. The country has been ruled by a junta following the ousting of President Mohamed Bazoum nearly two weeks ago. There have been suggestions the coup leaders have asked for help from Wagner, which is known […]
