US President Joe Biden hailed US-India ties, while rolling out the pomp and pageantry for visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. This included marching bands, a lavish vegetarian dinner and a 21-gun salute on the South Lawn of the White ... Read More

The University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana’s best tertiary institution for the 2022/2023 academic year, has begun exploring various educational opportunities and collaborative programmes available in the Republic of Indonesia. The move, which among other things, would also cover the Science, ... Read More

The Ghana Refugee Board (GRB) says it is working towards the operationalisation of the refugee fund, Mr. Tetteh Padi, Executive Secretary of the Board, has said. Mr Padi said the fund would support refugees and help them become self-reliant. The Executive Secretary ... Read More

Abiodun Richards Adejola The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Governing Body, has elected Mr. Abiodun Richards Adejola from Nigeria as Chairperson for the period 2023-2024. He assumes his role as chair with immediate effect. Mr. Adejola had been the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to ... Read More

Heavy clashes resumed Wednesday morning between Sudan’s military and the Rapid Support Forces in and around Sudanese capital, Khartoum, after a 72-hour cease-fire expired. As the three-day truce elapsed early Wednesday, the sounds of gunfire and artillery could be heard in ... Read More

The UK had one of the worst increases in death rates of major European economies during the Covid pandemic, BBC analysis has found. Death rates in the UK were more than 5% higher on average each year of the pandemic than ... Read More

US President Joe Biden has called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator at a fundraising event in California. His remarks came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Mr Xi for talks in Beijing, which were aimed at ... Read More

The top United Nations official in South Sudan on Tuesday urged leaders in that country to accelerate implementation of the 2018 Revitalized Peace Agreement, including holding elections late next year. "Now is not the time to take our eyes off the ... Read More

At a time of growing hostility toward refugees, the United Nations is marking World Refugee Day to honor the courage and contributions to society of people forcibly uprooted from their homes by war, persecution, human rights abuses, climate change and ... Read More

In this undated photo provided by UNHCR, radio journalist Jabrallah Tia interviews members of the UNHCR Forced Displacement survey specialists. Jabrallah Tia was a teacher in Sudan in 2011 when a brutal war forced him to flee to a refugee camp ... Read More