The passage of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's contentious bill to deport refugees to Rwanda may be delayed until at least next month after the upper house of parliament defeated the government and reinstated demands for greater protections. The government wants ... Read More

The United States on Wednesday pledged about $47 million in new humanitarian assistance for the emergency response in Sudan and neighboring countries, including Chad and South Sudan, the U.S. State Department said in a statement. The announcement brings total U.S. humanitarian ... Read More

Ghana and Denmark have signed the second phase of the strategic sector cooperation (SSC) on statistics to promote evidence-based decision-making in the country. This follows the successful implementation of phase one of an initial project which focused mainly on capacity building. Representatives ... Read More

The British government hopes one last push can revive its stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. A bill aimed at overcoming a U.K. Supreme Court block on deportation flights returns to the House of ... Read More

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says the United States remains determined to provide Ukraine with the resources it needs to fight Russian aggression, even as a U.S. Congress has yet to approve new funding for Ukraine. “The United States will not ... Read More

South Africa seeks to limit the damage to its relations with Washington caused by its legal challenge to Israel’s assault on Gaza, a South African official said on Tuesday. Naledi Pandor, who is South Africa's minister of international relations and cooperation, ... Read More

A groundbreaking partnership between the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) took center stage at the African Island States High-Level Meeting, held on the sidelines of the 37th AU Summit and hosted by the ... Read More

The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has urged managers of the economy to stay the course after achieving “many good indicators in this short period of time” in the country’s programme with the fund. “Your growth ... Read More

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on the African Union (AU) and other regional bodies to invest in developing national institutions and empower citizens with the requisite knowledge to demand compliance and accountability from their governments. He said he was ... Read More

“I am of the view that military and dictatorial rule is not a viable alternative to electoral multiparty democracy,” the ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Dr Abdel-Fatau Musah, has said. "Empirical evidence in Africa between 1970 and 1990, ... Read More