President Biden has named Karine Jean-Pierre as his new top spokesperson – the first time a black, or openly gay, person has held the role. Ms Jean-Pierre, 44, has served as the administration’s principal deputy press secretary since Mr Biden was elected. She will replace outgoing press secretary Jen Psaki, 43, in the top role […]
Tanzania’s president has called for a review of the East African country’s media laws and regulations, saying she wants to ensure measures “to protect journalists and open more space for freedom of expression and the media.” Samia Suluhu Hassan delivered her remarks on Tuesday, World Press Freedom Day, at a gathering of journalists, government officials […]
While South Africa’s African National Congress-led government has refused to condemn Russia’s war on Ukraine — preferring to take a neutral stance and calling for mediation — the Democratic Alliance Party’s John Steenhuisen isn’t mincing his words. He said seeing the destruction of the towns on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, was heartbreaking. […]
Russia pledged to observe a cease-fire Thursday in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, where its forces have controlled all but a steel plant complex where Ukrainian troops are holed up along with civilians the United Nations is working to evacuate. Russia said its daytime cease-fire would continue again Friday and Saturday to facilitate more evacuations […]
When Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office four years ago, Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based group that promotes press freedom, raised Ethiopia’s ranking in its international press freedom index by 40 places. It was a giant leap forward after decades of media repression by the state. But since the war between federal government forces […]
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, at the start of a two-day visit to Nigeria, is in northeast Borno state, where the country has been struggling in its fight against Islamist militants. The United Nations information center in Nigeria said the Secretary General is expected to meet with the Borno state governor, Babagana Zulum in Maiduguri, the […]
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission is investigating a video shared online that appears to show government troops abusing and shooting an ethnic Tigrayan boy. The four-minute video shows an alleged ethnic Tigray teenager being surrounded by men in Ethiopian army uniforms. The forces are seen abusing the boy, who they refer to as being from […]
Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday that he has asked for a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to stop the war in Ukraine but had not received a reply. The pontiff also told the Italian daily Corriere Della Sera that Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, […]
As part of his vision to empower the youth, women and people with disabilities, Ambassador Alhaji Salamu Amadu and Sheikh Abdul Aziz on behalf of the United Arab Emirates Embassy and the Afro Arab Group of Companies have donated food items to Skate Soccer Ghana. The items included: bags of rice, bottles of cooking oil, […]
Mali’s ruling junta announced Monday it was breaking off from defense accords with its former colonial ruler France, condemning “flagrant violations” of its national sovereignty by the French troops there. The announcement — threatened several times over the past few weeks — was the latest confirmation of deteriorating relations between the junta in Mali and […]
