The United Kingdom (UK) government, on Wednesday, unveiled a £200 million sexual and reproductive health rights programme for women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa. This is to help prevent up to 30,600 maternal deaths, 3.4 million unsafe abortions and 9.5 million ... Read More

Kenya this week rolled out a campaign using the world's first vaccine against malaria to inoculate more than 400,000 children against the mosquito-borne disease. Health officials say malaria kills more than 12,000 Kenyans each year and more than half a ... Read More

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday assailed Russia’s year-long invasion of Ukraine as a violation of international law as he arrived in Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on extending grain shipments from the war-torn country and securing ... Read More

António Guterres – UN Secretary-General Around the world, progress on women’s rights is vanishing before our eyes. The latest forecasts estimate that on our current track, it will take another 300 years to reach full gender equality. Today’s cascading crises, from the ... Read More

Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg attends a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 3, 2021. South Africa's ruling ANC party has brushed aside criticism of a large donation it accepted from a mining company ... Read More

Operations to defend the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut will go on, and are backed by senior generals, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Western analysts suggested at the weekend that Ukraine was probably withdrawing some of its troops, as Russian ... Read More

Ken Ofori-Atta (3rd from left), Minister of Finance; Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey (4th from left), Minister of Foreign Affairs; Dr Winfred Nii Okai Hammond (2nd from left), Ghana’s Ambassador to China, with the Chinese delegation The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has ... Read More

People sit under a billboard with a congratulatory message of the President-Elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos , Nigeria, March 5, 2023. The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria acknowledged in a statement Sunday that following the African ... Read More

Qin Gang has held his first press conference as China's foreign minister China's foreign minister says US-China relations have "seriously deviated" while warning of potential conflict. "Containment and suppression will not make America great. It will not stop the rejuvenation of China," ... Read More

Charles Abani – UN Resident Rep in Ghana Mr Charles Abani, the United Nations Resident Coordinator, has urged the government and parliament to expedite the reenactment of the persons with disabilities bill to bring it into compliance with international standards. He said ... Read More