President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has held talks with the Amir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani met at Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Majlis at the Amiri Diwan (the official workplace and office of the Amir) in Doha today (Sunday, March 12, 2023). The talks took place on the occasion of President Akufo-Addo‘s visit to the country […]
A corruption watchdog group said in a preliminary report that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was not involved in a cover-up concerning the theft of a large amount of cash he had stuffed into a sofa at his farmhouse. Allegations of a cover-up about the theft of the money had hung over the president’s head […]
Intelligence reports indicate nearly 700,000 migrants are in Libya awaiting an opportunity to set out by sea toward Italy, a lawmaker from Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party said Sunday, but a U.N. migration official called the number not credible. Tommaso Foti, the lower parliamentary house whip for the Brothers of Italy Party, told television channel […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning to travel to Russia to meet with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as soon as next week, people familiar with the matter said, which would be sooner than previously expected. Plans for a visit come as China has been offering to broker peace in Ukraine, an effort that has been met […]
The UK will give France almost £500m over three years to help stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats. The cash was announced at a summit in Paris between UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President Emmanuel Macron, who said France would also contribute. The money will go towards an extra 500 officers and […]
The United Kingdom (UK) government, on Wednesday, unveiled a £200 million sexual and reproductive health rights programme for women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa. This is to help prevent up to 30,600 maternal deaths, 3.4 million unsafe abortions and 9.5 million unintended pregnancies. The programme, expected to reach 10.4 million women and girls, comes under […]
Kenya this week rolled out a campaign using the world’s first vaccine against malaria to inoculate more than 400,000 children against the mosquito-borne disease. Health officials say malaria kills more than 12,000 Kenyans each year and more than half a million people in sub-Saharan Africa, most of them children. The mass vaccination campaign comes as […]
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday assailed Russia’s year-long invasion of Ukraine as a violation of international law as he arrived in Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on extending grain shipments from the war-torn country and securing the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. “The sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity […]
Around the world, progress on women’s rights is vanishing before our eyes. The latest forecasts estimate that on our current track, it will take another 300 years to reach full gender equality. Today’s cascading crises, from the war in Ukraine to the climate emergency, affect women and girls first and worst. And as part of […]
South Africa’s ruling ANC party has brushed aside criticism of a large donation it accepted from a mining company linked to a Russian oligarch under U.S. sanctions. Viktor Vekselberg is an investor in United Manganese of Kalahari Ltd, which last year donated $826,000 to help fund the ANC’s electoral conference. Critics say the donation undermines […]
