On Tuesday, international NGOs working in Niger called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to ease its sanctions against Niamey to allow emergency humanitarian aid to enter from neighbouring Benin. The twenty or so organisations are calling for ... Read More

António Guterres – UN Secretary-General UN Secretary General António Guterres issued an urgent appeal on Monday to the CO28 World Climate Conference in Dubai to “end the fossil fuel age.” The time had now come for maximum ambition and maximum flexibility, Guterres ... Read More

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ethiopia will hold a call with its international bondholders on Thursday, a senior finance ministry official said, as the country is careening toward default, having said last week that it could not pay a $33 million bond coupon due ... Read More

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was scrambling on Monday to get enough support for his flagship immigration policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda after some lawmakers in his party said a planned emergency law was not tough enough. Sunak is ... Read More

The United Nations is appealing for $46.4 billion to provide life-saving assistance to more than 180 million of the world’s neediest people in 72 countries next year. The appeal comes as donor fatigue sets in amid the proliferation of natural ... Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will have the chance to directly make the case for new U.S. aid to help his country fight a Russian invasion as he meets Tuesday with members of Congress and President Joe Biden in Washington. Zelenskyy said ... Read More

The British High Commission in Accra has donated eight ambulances to the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) as part of its annual Security Dialogue. The ambulances are to help improve medical services delivery in the five northern regions of Ghana, North East, ... Read More

**West African leaders met in Abuja, Sunday (Dec. 10) for talks on their region which faces a deepening political crisis, growing threats from jihadist wreaking havoc in the Sahel and criticism of its leadership in some member countries. ** The political crisis in Niger was ... Read More

West African leaders met in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Sunday for talks on their region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts. After coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and ... Read More

Sudan's warring generals agreed to hold a face-to-face meeting as part of efforts to establish a cease-fire and initiate political talks to end the country's devastating war, an African regional bloc said Sunday. Sudan slipped into chaos after soaring tensions between ... Read More