The African Union’s chief has called for an “immediate, unconditional ceasefire” in the two-year-old conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. An AU statement, released on Saturday, said Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat is “following with great concern reports of increased fighting in ... Read More

Protesters call for President Kais Saied to go. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Tunisia's capital to demonstrate against the president. Parallel demonstrations by political movements who are deeply opposed to each other were held in Tunis. Both groups denounced ... Read More

The United Nations' refugee agency has said it is "deeply distressed" by the discovery of almost 100 naked men at the border between Greece and Turkey. The two countries have blamed each other for the plight of the 92 migrants. Greece laid ... Read More

President Joe Biden The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has called Liz Truss's original economic policies "a mistake". In an unusual intervention, he said the economic turmoil that followed the government's mini-budget had been "predictable". Speaking at an ice cream ... Read More

Kwasi Kwarteng  Britain's finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng said on Friday that he had resigned after Prime Minister Liz Truss asked him to stand aside as chancellor of the exchequer. Below is the full text of his letter, which he posted on Twitter: "You ... Read More

A new report finds half of all countries globally lack early warning systems that could save lives by alerting communities of impending disasters, including typhoons, droughts, and heatwaves. The joint report by the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, or ... Read More

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Tuesday inaugurated the renovated building of the Ghana Embassy in Paris, France, with an assurance that Ghana would continue to build on its relations with Francophone countries. He said the geographical, blood and historical ties ... Read More

Italian-Ivorian activist, trade unionist and newly elected member of Parliament Aboubakar Soumahoro, looks on during an interview with Reuters on October 5, 2022 When Aboubakar Soumahoro was a teenager in his native Ivory Coast, he used to clean shoes and ... Read More

Cameroon and Nigeria requested to join the Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI), a joint body spearheading the interests of the two countries in the cocoa trade, the head of the initiative Alex Assanvo said on Wednesday. The initiative was set up ... Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Senegal's President and Chairperson of the African Union Macky Sall in Sochi, Russia on June 3, 2022 can play in underpinning the energy security of nations and regions,” he told an energy industry meeting ... Read More