Ghana and South Korea have underscored the need to collaborate and seize the opportunity to deepen their cultural and tourism ties. Despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, both countries still consider the need to tap into their comparative advantage and reserves to forge closer collaboration in tourism, sports, and culture. This was the […]
Kenyan women were in the streets of Nairobi Tuesday in protest of motorbike taxi drivers who allegedly assaulted a woman last week. The protesters, organized by the Federation of Women Lawyers, gave the capital’s police chief a petition seeking assurance of their safety and protection from all forms of harassment. A video widely circulated on […]
Women account for most of Africa’s agricultural workforce and acutely feel the burdens of climate change, but too often their voices go unheard in farming- and climate-related policymaking and programs. That’s just one of the assessments a United Nations official shared in light of Tuesday’s U.N. observance of International Women’s Day. “Women make up 80% […]
Ms Mia Amor Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, says, her Island country offers opportunity for Ghana and the rest of Africa to connect to the Caribbean for commercial benefits. She said the 15-member States community with a combined market of 18 million people presented access to important business, investment and market opportunities to Ghana […]
As the world moves ahead to mark International Women’s Day, the clock on women’s rights is moving backwards. All of us are paying the price. The cascading crises of recent years have highlighted how women’s leadership is more crucial than ever. Women have heroically confronted the COVID-19 pandemic as doctors, nurses, and public health and […]
Namibia’s Supreme Court has ruled that a government ministry must reconsider a same-sex couple’s appeal for residence rights. Namibia Supreme Court Chief Justice Peter Shivute said Monday that the Ministry of Home Affairs should look again at an application for resident status from Mexican national Guillermo Delgado. Delgado, who is in a same-sex union with […]
An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy said a small amount of progress had been made during a third round of talks Monday between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators. The talks discussed establishing safe corridors that would allow civilians to flee the war, but Mykhailo Podolyak said there was no major breakthrough that could help end […]
The United Nations humanitarian chief appealed Monday for safe passage for civilians fleeing Ukraine and for humanitarians delivering urgent assistance to the country. “The parties must take constant care to spare civilians and civilian homes and infrastructure in their military operations,” Martin Griffiths told the U.N. Security Council. “This includes allowing safe passage for civilians […]
The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — a country long known as the “breadbasket of Europe” because of the prodigious amounts of wheat, corn and other cereal grains that it produces — will extend far beyond Europe, wreaking havoc on global food supplies, experts from aid agencies say. Ukraine produces 16% of the world’s […]
The U.N. Refugee Agency, UNHCR, is appealing for $205 million for assistance to more than 1.6 million people displaced by conflict in northern Ethiopia. The conflict, which began 16 months ago in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region has spread to the neighboring Amhara and Afar regions. This has resulted in a humanitarian crisis for more than 2 […]
