Media watchdogs in southern Africa are calling on the governments of Angola, Eswatini and Zimbabwe to do more to protect press freedom following the publication of the Freedom in the World 2022 Report which says those countries are among the most oppressive authorities to media in the region. The Media Institute of Southern Africa said it was […]
UN scientists are likely to weigh up technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, as they gather to finalise a key report. This idea will be one of many solutions considered over the next two weeks by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Also in attendance will be government officials from all over the […]
Ukraine has rejected a Russian ultimatum offering people in the besieged city of Mariupol safe passage out of the port if they surrender. Under Russia’s proposal, civilians would be allowed to leave if the city’s defenders laid down arms. But Ukraine has refused, saying there was no question of it surrendering the strategic port city. […]
US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalised with “flu-like” symptoms and will work in absentia for several days. In a statement, the court said Mr Thomas was taken to hospital and diagnosed with an infection. It comes one day before the Senate begins confirmation hearings for court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Mr Thomas, 73, […]
Mr Jeroen Verheul, Netherlands, Ambassador to Ghana, says the cocoa industry remains essential to boost the national economy. He said it was time various stakeholders in the sector leveraged on the growing interest of the populace in cocoa products and created more jobs to grow the local economy to reduce the unemployment rate. Ambassador Verheul […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated a 100KVA emergency power plant to the Tamale West Hospital to ensure the effective and uninterrupted power supply to the newborn care unit, maternity ward, labour room and theatre of the hospital. Frequent power outages have adversely affected the operations of the hospital over the years. In […]
All remaining Covid travel restrictions have now been lifted for passengers entering the UK. As of 04:00 GMT, unvaccinated arrivals will no longer have to take tests – the rule had already been lifted for the vaccinated – and passenger locator forms have been scrapped. It comes almost exactly two years after the first Covid […]
South Sudan is witnessing “the worst hunger crisis to date.” That’s the assessment of U.N. World Food Program’s Marwa Awad, who sees it firsthand. An estimated 8.3 million people in South Sudan will face extreme hunger in the coming months as the lean season peaks and provisions are depleted, Awad told South Sudan in Focus. “Over […]
West Africa is beginning to open up to the world again. As COVID-19 travel restrictions are lifted, cultural events, like the Intercultural Circus Festival of Abidjan, or RICA, are returning. At the festival in downtown Abidjan on Wednesday evening, performers did parkour and performed backflips and somersaults, while clowns pulled in members of the audience […]
A senior U.N. official warned Wednesday that the current political standoff in Libya could lead to instability and two parallel governments in the country. “As long as the standoff over executive legitimacy continues, Libya could again see two parallel administrations,” U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the U.N. Security Council. “This could lead to instability […]
