President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has said he is looking forward to retiring and handing over power after 22 years in office. Speaking at a joint press briefing with his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, Kagame said a succession plan is being actively discussed by the ruling party terming his retirement […]
Britain’s interior minister, Suella Braverman, says she is convinced Rwanda is a safe country for the resettlement of asylum seekers, but she has declined to set any deadline for the first deportations there. The British government is hoping to send thousands of asylum seekers more than 6,500km (4,000 miles) away to the East African country […]
Burkina Faso has expelled two French journalists working for newspapers Le Monde and Liberation, the two newspapers said on Sunday, accusing the authorities of seeking to stifle freedom of speech with an escalating crackdown on foreign media. Liberation said its correspondent Agnès Faivre and Le Monde’s Sophie Douce arrived in Paris early on Sunday after […]
The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it has reached a staff-level agreement with Rwanda on policies needed to complete the first reviews of Rwanda’s $319 million loan arrangement under the IMF’s new Resilience and Sustainability Facility. The agreement is subject to review and approval by IMF management and the Fund’s executive board, tentatively scheduled […]
In her 15 years of working in Ethiopian media, Melkamsew Solomon says she still doesn’t see enough women in senior roles. Often, she says, women are assigned to soft news stories, then overlooked for more prominent positions. Melkamsew has managed to buck that trend and is pushing back boundaries with her radio program Yimechish, which […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a New York state court to a 34-count indictment accusing him of falsifying business records in furtherance of an unspecified crime – described by prosecutors as a bid to hide a hush money payment to a porn actress to help him win the presidency in […]
Sugandh Rajaram, the Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, on Saturday graduated with a Master of Philosophy (Geography and Regional Planning) degree at the University of Cape Coast (UCC). He graduated as one of the two students, who specialised in that field. The High Commissioner was among 1,430 postgraduate students who graduated at the fifth session […]
As more people become concerned about the effects of climate change on their lives, journalists in an otherwise struggling industry are becoming specialized in the environmental beat. But that wasn’t always the case, said Frederick Mugira, founder of Water Journalists Africa, the largest network of journalists on the continent reporting on water. Mugira said that […]
Finland will become the 31st member of Nato on Tuesday, the Western military alliance’s secretary general has announced. The application was prompted by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, with which Finland shares a long border. Turkey had delayed the application, complaining that Finland was supporting “terrorists”. Sweden applied to join Nato at the same […]
The First black female US Vice-President, Kamala Harris, began her three-nation Africa tour last Sunday, landing in Accra, Ghana, as part of a visit that includes stops in Tanzania and Zambia. With fears of terrorism and Russian mercenaries rippling through West Africa, Vice-President Kamala Harris on Monday opened her week-long trip to the continent by […]
