Migrants arrive on a boat at La Restinga dock, in the municipality of El Pinar on the Canary Island of El Hierro, on Oct. 21, 2023. Authorities say more than 1,300 sub-Saharan African migrants reached Spain’s Canary Islands, a seven-island Atlantic ... Read More

The United States has suspended most financial assistance to the central African country of Gabon in response to August’s military takeover. “The United States has concluded that a military coup d’état has taken place in Gabon,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller ... Read More

An initiative to help reduce prostate cancer incidences in the country has been launched in Accra. It is estimated that an above-average number of African men contract and die from the disease and to change this, the develoPPP programme of the ... Read More

For the second day in a row, trucks carrying aid have crossed from Egypt into war-torn Gaza, as Israel intensified strikes on the Palestinian enclave in the war sparked by Hamas's bloody attack. Seventeen aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip from ... Read More

Niger's ousted president Mohamed Bazoum is with his family and is doing well, a relatives told AFP Sunday, after claims by the country's new military rulers this week that he had tried to escape. "He is at the presidential residence ... Read More

Ghana and China will soon sign a cooperation agreement to explore investment opportunities in the railways, tourism, and other developmental projects in the Kumasi metropolis in the Ashanti region. Negotiations for collaboration are far advanced between the two countries for commercial ... Read More

The World Bank says Ghana may not achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on poverty reduction due to the recent global economic shocks. He indicated that the global health pandemic (COVID-19), the Russian-Ukraine War, and the global economic recession had stalled ... Read More

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed the Dutch royal couple, King Willem-Alexander and his wife Queen Máxima of the Netherlands at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Thursday. Their majesties were on a state visit at the invitation of the president ... Read More

As the death toll and suffering mounts for Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, the U.N. Security Council remained blocked Wednesday on trying to bring any relief to them, while the Israeli and Palestinian envoys traded accusations. “The pace of death, ... Read More

António Guterres – UN Secretary-General U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that limited humanitarian assistance to Palestinians living in Gaza is not enough, it must be ongoing and at scale. “It is not one small operation that is required; it is a ... Read More