European leaders on Tuesday pledged to hold Russia to account for its war against Ukraine and unveiled a mechanism to track the losses and damage inflicted by Moscow’s forces. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak were among those who underlined their support for Ukraine in a rare […]
The United Nations appealed Wednesday for $3 billion to help those affected by the conflict that erupted last month in Sudan. The U.N. humanitarian agency said it needs $2.6 billion to help those still within Sudan, saying 25 million people in the country are in need of humanitarian aid and protection. Ramesh Rajasingham, head of […]
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his appeal against a prison sentence for corruption. However, the Paris appeals court ruled that he could serve his time at home wearing a tag instead of going to jail. In 2021 Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in prison – including two suspended – for trying to […]
Ethiopian journalist Melkamsew Solomon broadcasts a weekly radio program, Yimechish, which focuses on rural women in Ethiopia. But for some listeners, Yimechish – an Amharic slang term which roughly translates to “You go, girl” — is too niche and too narrowly focused. “We get told, ‘You keep talking about women all the time, what about […]
An 11-year old British-Ghanaian, Harry Acheampong, has been appointed as the first United Kingdom Children’s Parliament Prime Minister. The youngster, who has dreamed of becoming a Prime Minister, came closer to his appointment in March this year. On April 19, 2023, Master Acheampong attended the House of Lords in the United Kingdom standing shoulder to […]
A former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has called for more investment in data infrastructure and capacity-building to improve decision-making for accelerated development on the African continent. For instance, she said, there was the need to build technical and appropriate human capacity to collect, manage and analyse data effectively. She was speaking at the […]
The commander of South Africa’s ground forces has visited Moscow for talks with Russian counterparts just days after Washington accused South Africa of secretly providing arms to Russia. The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) said on Monday that the meeting was “planned well in advance” as part of “a long-standing arrangement” and was a “goodwill […]
A long-awaited report has strongly criticised the FBI’s handling of its investigation into alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. In a 306-page report, special counsel John Durham said the agency’s inquiry had lacked “analytical rigor”. He concluded the FBI had not possessed “actual evidence” of collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia […]
The UK will send hundreds of air defence missiles and armed drones to Ukraine on top of the Storm Shadow cruise missiles announced last week. The move means the UK is going further than any other country in providing weapons with the potential to tip the battlefield in Ukraine’s favour. Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky met […]
When she was a girl in South Africa’s Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an “ugly language.” Now at age 90, she is the last known speaker of N|uu, one of a group of indigenous languages in South Africa that have […]
