The government has signed an agreement with the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) to strengthen cooperation in the prevention of terrorism and transnational organised crime. The Letter of Agreement (LoA) is intended to accelerate the delivery of technical assistance to ... Read More

A delegation from Tanzania made up of government institutions is in Ghana to understudy the country’s carbon market operations.  Ghana is one of the few countries in Africa to have developed a comprehensive carbon market operation, with three bilateral cooperative ... Read More

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina – AfDB President Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank Group, says African countries must build coordinated partnerships with the Arab region to address critical developmental challenges limiting the Continent’s sustainable growth.  He said the key nagging issues are ... Read More

Regional analysts have voiced skepticism about a so-called standby counterterrorism force announced Sunday by West African bloc ECOWAS. The critics say despite the comments from Nigeria’s president suggesting the force is ready for deployment, ECOWAS has not provided any details ... Read More

Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, has engaged members of the Arab Coordination Group to support the Government’s growth strategy which targets an investment of $12 billion.  The Government, having successfully undergone both domestic and external debt ... Read More

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa  South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a broad climate change act that will set caps for large emitters and require every town and city to publish an adaptation plan. The Climate Change Bill aims ... Read More

The African Union convened in Ghana on Sunday to address issues related to African integration and to establish a unified stance before engaging with the G20 and UN. Mauritania's President and current African Union Chair, Mohamed Cheikh Ghazouani, urged for the acceleration of the ... Read More

Turkey is pushing for diplomatic and economic influence on the world stage -- not least in Africa, where it announced plans this week to search for oil and gas off Somalia. Over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's two decades in power, Ankara ... Read More

Sudan's de facto leader, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, received an Iranian ambassador Sunday and sent his own to Tehran, the government said, cementing a rapprochement after an eight-year rupture. Sudan and Iran agreed last October to resume diplomatic relations, as ... Read More

After a rising chorus within his own party urged U.S. President Joe Biden to “pass the torch,” he did just that on Sunday, immediately becoming a single-term president and a lame-duck leader. Biden announced on social media that he was ending ... Read More