Winnie Byanyima US funding cuts will lead to an additional 2,000 new HIV infections each day and over six million further deaths over the next four years, the UNAids chief has warned. It would mark a stark reversal in the global fight ... Read More

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through its Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food (RAAF) and with support from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, has launched a pilot school feeding programme in the Upper West Region. The ... Read More

Madam Imane Ouaadil, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to Ghana has paid a courtesy call on Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the Ministry’s headquarters in Accra. A statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, copied ... Read More

Ghana’s Vice President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has described the inauguration of Namibia’s first female president, H.E. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, as a powerful reflection of the resilience and determination of African women. In a message shared on her official Facebook page on ... Read More

New videos are circulating showing civilians being escorted by armed individuals to an unknown destination. Elderly people and children unable to keep up are threatened with knives. Other footage reveals the lifeless bodies of civilians, allegedly from a massacre in ... Read More

Pope Francis Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican after he was hospitalised for five weeks with a life-threatening bout of pneumonia.  Hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital he was staying in to greet him.  Doctors who announced his release said he ... Read More

South Africa is actively engaging with the Trump administration to enhance its trade relationship with the United States, despite ongoing diplomatic tensions following the expulsion of its ambassador. Presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya stated on Thursday that President Cyril Ramaphosa is committed ... Read More

A recent investigation by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at the Aflao and Elubo borders revealed a significant rise in informal cross-border trade due to high duties and extortion risks. The UNDP found that the significant delays in customs clearance, ... Read More

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Landlocked Ethiopia has no intention of starting a war with neighbouring Eritrea in order to gain access to the sea, the country's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said. A previous statement, in 2023, that having a seaport was an ... Read More

The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has recently reached a turning point, with the United Nations officially acknowledging the role of the Rwandan army and the M23 rebel group in the occupation and looting of parts ... Read More