UK Interior Minister Signs New Rwanda Treaty To Resurrect As...
British Home Secretary James Cleverly and Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Vincent Biruta hold a bilateral meeting after signing a new treaty, in Kigali, Rwanda, Dec. 5, 2023.
British interior minister James Cleverly signed a new treaty with Rwanda on Tuesday ... Read More
Biden and Trump Trade Barbs As 2024 Race Heats Up
Biden and Trump
US President Joe Biden and his would-be challenger Donald Trump have been attacking one another as the 2024 White House campaign heats up.
Mr Biden said part of his motivation to run for a second term next year is to thwart the Republican, adding that "we cannot let him ... Read More
COP28: Record Number Of Fossil Fuel Delegates at Climate Tal...
Delegates at a plenary session of COP28
The number of delegates at this year's UN climate talks who are also linked to fossil fuel producers has quadrupled since last year, campaigners say.
Around 2,400 people connected to the coal, oil and gas ... Read More
African Countries Defend Large Delegations At COP28
Multiple African governments have justified their decision to send substantial delegations to the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, despite facing widespread criticism.
According to the UN's attendance list, Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, and Uganda were among the nations with the ... Read More
Britain Persists With Rwanda Plan For Migrants
Rishi Sunak
Britain is continuing its efforts to have migrants seeking asylum in Britain sent instead to Rwanda to seek asylum there.
In the latest version, Britain would have British lawyers stationed in Rwandan courts to alleviate British concerns about the workings ... Read More
Burkina Faso Suspends ‘All Distribution Methods’...
FILE - An employee loads freshly printed packages of the Le Monde daily newspaper at a printing facility in Saint-Vulbas, eastern France, April 20, 2023.
Military-ruled Burkina Faso on Saturday suspended "all distribution methods" of Le Monde daily after an article on a ... Read More
UN Chief Alarmed At Resumption, Spread Of Gaza Fighting
António Guterres – UN Secretary-General
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed his extreme alarm Monday about the resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, including Hamas rocket fire on Israel and the renewal and expansion of Israel’s airstrikes and military ground operations ... Read More
COP28: Head Of UN Talks Hits Back At Climate Denial Claims
The president of the ongoing UN climate talks Sultan al-Jaber has hit back at claims that he denies a core part of climate science.
It follows his earlier comments that there was "no science" behind requiring the end of fossil fuels ... Read More
Climate Loss And Damage Fund Must Be Free From Bureaucratic ...
President Nana Akufo- Addo says it is imperative that the newly established Loss and Damage Fund must be free from the bureaucratic hurdles that have hindered speedy resource allocation of other climate funds.
He said the fund which was a crucial ... Read More
COP28: Nations Finalize Fund To Compensate Developing Nation...
Climate experts were impressed with discussions on the first day of COP28 in Dubai on Thursday, as nearly all nations finalised the creation of a fund to help compensate countries struggling to cope with loss and damage caused by climate ... Read More