The United States aims to boost cooperation with African nations as President Joe Biden hosts dozens of regional leaders at the second US-Africa Leaders Summit this week in Washington, DC. Beginning on Tuesday, the three-day summit will focus on key challenges, including the climate crisis, good governance, food security and global health, as well as bolstering US-Africa trade and […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not hold his traditional big year-end news conference, the Kremlin has said, for the first time in 10 years. But spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “we hope the president will after all find an opportunity to talk” to the media. No reason was given for the cancellation, but it comes amid […]
Belgian investigators searched offices at the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday, in a probe into alleged bribes from World Cup host Qatar. It was the 20th search carried out in Belgium since Friday and the parliament president, Roberta Metsola, warned MEPs that “democracy is under attack”. Belgian police have arrested four people, among them […]
A plan announced by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in October to grant temporary protected status to Ethiopians temporarily inside the United States because of the war in their homeland is set to go into effect beginning Monday. “The United States recognizes the ongoing armed conflict and the extraordinary and temporary conditions engulfing Ethiopia, […]
Nelly Cheboi is CNN’s 2022 Hero of the Year, honored for her efforts in providing computer training for rural Kenya schoolchildren through her non-profit TechLit Africa. Cheboi grew up in grinding poverty in rural Kenya. “I never forgot what it was like with my stomach churning because of hunger at night,” even though her mother […]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Nigerian authorities to investigate allegations of systemic and coerced abortions reportedly perpetrated by its army, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric has said. The Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday that the Nigerian Army has run a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast since at least […]
The United Nations, (UN) estimates that $2.6 trillion is lost to corruption annually in the world, Mr Charles Abani, UN Resident Coordinator in Ghana, has said. Speaking at the International Anti-Corruption Day celebration held by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in Accra, the UN Resident Coordinator noted that corruption had not […]
The 2022 African Economic Conference (AEC) opened today in the island nation of Mauritius with a strong call for Africa to adopt smart technologies to tackle what speakers described as ‘the looming climate change threat’ to the continent. “Supporting climate-smart development in Africa is extremely pertinent. Climate change is a looming threat to Africa. The continent is […]
The Upper West Regional Directorate of Health Services has appealed to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for assistance to upgrade the Regional Medical Store (RMS) to protect drugs under their care. It said the current regional medical store constructed as far back as 1997 was inadequate to contain the volume of drugs […]
US President Joe Biden will back a permanent spot for the African Union in the Group of 20 major economies, seeking to elevate the continent’s role, the White House said. Biden will make the announcement during a three-day US-Africa Summit that opens on Tuesday in Washington, DC, where the United States will commit to the continent after […]
