The U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, starts in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, next week, and climate change activists are pushing major emitters in developed countries to make bigger commitments at the conference. According to a recent report by the U.N. Environment Program, the international community is still falling far short of the 2015 Paris […]
Kenyan President William Ruto said during a meeting Monday with the Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) that extrajudicial killings by police in the country must end. Five police officers who were members of a now-disbanded special services unit went on trial Monday for the murders of Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan and Mohamed Zaid Sami Kidwai — […]
President Vladimir Putin has said Russia is suspending – but not ending – its participation in a deal that allows safe passage to vessels carrying Ukrainian grain exports. Moscow pulled out of the UN-brokered agreement on Saturday, alleging that Ukraine had used a safety corridor in the Black Sea to attack its fleet. The UN […]
The German Ambassador to Ghana, Daniel Krull, has advised Ghanaians that the best way to migrate legally to Germany is through education and training. He has, therefore, asked Ghanaians to convince their fellow countrymen not to choose the fatal way of migrating illegally through the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea. “We must convince them not […]
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is holding emergency meetings Monday with security chiefs after several foreign missions issued terror warnings last week for the capital, Abuja. Buhar’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, made the announcement in a tweet late Sunday. He said top security officials including the defense minister, armed services chiefs, police and heads of other security […]
Suspected jihadists have ambushed and killed 13 soldiers in Burkina Faso’s eastern province, security sources told AFP on Sunday, in the latest violence to shake the insurgency-torn west African nation. Four members of the defense forces were also wounded in Saturday’s attack along the road linking Fada N’Gourma with Natiaboani, one of the sources said. […]
Brazil has taken a turn to the left as former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election. After a divisive campaign which saw two bitter rivals on opposite sides of the political spectrum go head to head, Lula won 50.9% of the votes. It was enough to […]
Ghana will on Tuesday, November 01, assume the Presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, a historic moment in the country’s two-year tenure at the Security Council. The significance of Ghana presiding over the Council’s affairs for the month of November, stems from the fact that the UN Security Council is the principal organ […]
A new Zulu king has been crowned at a historic event attended by thousands in South Africa’s coastal city of Durban. King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini was formally acknowledged as monarch by President Cyril Ramaphosa, who gave him a certificate of recognition. The ceremony was the first Zulu coronation since South Africa became a democracy in […]
Ethiopia’s Tigray region has run out of medical supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics and insulin, World Health Organization officials say, warning that many deaths are probably going unrecorded from preventable and treatable diseases. Only about 9 percent of health facilities in Tigray are fully functional as Ethiopia’s army battles forces from the northern region, WHO […]
