Ethiopian Airlines Named “The Best Airline In Africa”
The Ethiopian Airlines Group, the fastest-growing airline brand globally and the continent’s leading airline brand, has been crowned “The Best Airline in Africa.”
The airline was awarded the title at the prestigious SKYTRAX 2023 World Airline Awards during the Paris Air ... Read More
7 African Countries Build Capacity On Disaster Preparedness
Dr Marco Massabo (seated 2nd from left), Programme Coordinator at the CIMA Foundation, with other participants in the disaster preparedness workshop in Accra
Seven African countries are working towards developing local institutional capacity to build resilience and promote disaster preparedness.
In line ... Read More
UK Court Rules Plan To Relocate Asylum Seekers To Rwanda Is ...
Rishi Sunak - UK Prime Minister
Britain's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, London's Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, in a major setback for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has pledged to stop migrants arriving across the ... Read More
Japan Affirms Commitment To Ghana’s Infrastructure Develop...
Mr. Hisanobu Mochizuki, the Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, has reaffirmed the country’s continued support to Ghana’s socio-economic and infrastructure development drive.
He said Ghana held strategically important position in developing quality infrastructure in the West Africa Growth Ring Corridor Development to ... Read More
Ethiopia’s Social Media Ban Brings Challenges
Four months into a social media ban, communications businesses and civil rights groups in Ethiopia are feeling the impact. Strict regulations are making it harder for them to reach audiences or verify information.
In March, the country blocked access to Facebook, ... Read More
Gunfire Shatters Eid Prayer For Peace By Fed-Up Sudanese
Hundreds gathered in the Sudanese capital Khartoum Wednesday to pray for peace on the first day of the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday, but gunfire shattered the brief respite, residents said.
Witnesses in the capital's twin city of Omdurman late Wednesday reported ... Read More
Biden: Putin ‘Absolutely’ Diminished By Wagner Group Mut...
President Joe Biden
U.S. President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin had “absolutely” been weakened inside his country by last weekend’s short-lived mutiny led by mercenary Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.
But Biden, speaking to reporters ... Read More
US Sanctions Companies Linked to Gold Trade to Fund Wagner F...
Visitors to the 'PMC Wagner Centre', operated by founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin, in St Petersburg, Russia, in November 2022
The United States on Tuesday accused companies in the United Arab Emirates, the Central African Republic ... Read More
UN: Hundreds Of Civilians Arbitrarily Detained In Ukraine, M...
A blistering new report by the U.N. human rights office shows that nobody in Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine is without fault and that Ukrainian civilians have been arbitrarily detained by both warring parties, but that the Russian Federation ... Read More
Belarus Leader Welcomes Wagner Boss Prigozhin Into Exile
Yevgeny Prigozhin - Wagner Boss
The leader of Russia's 24-hour mutiny, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has arrived in Belarus, three days after his Wagner mercenary group's mutiny came to an end 200km (125 miles) south of Moscow.
"Yes, indeed, he's in Belarus today," leader ... Read More