Senegal Schedules Presidential Election For March 24
Senegal's President Macky Sall
Senegalese President Macky Sall has scheduled a delayed presidential election for March 24, the government said on Wednesday after a top court ruled that a proposal to hold the vote after his mandate expires on April ... Read More
African Seed Trade Members Meet To Boost Seed Adoption, Dist...
More than 350 delegates from governments, research institutions and seed production companies are gathering in Kenya this week to address challenges in getting good-quality seeds to African farmers. Experts say the lack of good seeds is hampering food production across ... Read More
Egypt Says It Reached Deal With IMF To Increase Bailout Loan...
Egypt said Wednesday it has reached a deal with the International Monetary Fund to increase a bailout loan to $8 billion.
Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly announced the news in televised comments on Wednesday. Egypt has for months negotiated with the IMF ... Read More
US Official: Arms To Sudan’s Warring Parties ‘Must Stop...
A senior U.S. official urged countries to stop supplying Sudan’s rival generals with weapons for their civil war, saying they are fueling “death, destruction and depravity.”
“A conflict that, as this report details, is being fueled by arms transferred from a ... Read More
Ghana Marks 67th Independence Day Today
Ghana today, March 6, 2024, marks 67 years since it gained Independence from her former colonial masters, the British.
Ghana gained her independence after 83 years of British colonial rule – becoming the first sub-Saharan African country to achieve independence from ... Read More
Mixed Reactions In Zimbabwe To New US Sanctions
There are mixed feelings among Zimbabwe’s political class after the U.S. removed sanctions against many Zimbabweans and companies on Monday but imposed new ones on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and a few senior leaders.
The sanctions list was introduced in 2001 for ... Read More
Conflict Spillovers Causing Surge of Human Rights Violations...
Volker Türk
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warns the potential spillover of dozens of conflicts around the world is threatening global peace and causing human rights violations to surge in all regions.
Türk, who presented an update about the ... Read More
US Vice President Harris Meets With Israel’s Gantz Ami...
Kamala Harris
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the brutal October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas and the taking of hostages, including American citizens, during a meeting Monday with Israeli war Cabinet member Benny Gantz at the White House.
Harris, who met ... Read More
UK Plan To Deport asylum Seekers To Rwanda Suffers First Par...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered his first defeats over his legislation to send asylum seekers to Rwanda after the upper house of parliament demanded greater protections to be introduced before deportation flights can take off.
Under the Rwanda plan, which has ... Read More
Africa To Be $2.5 Trillion Short Of Climate Finance By 2030,...
Africa will be $2.5 trillion short of the finance it needs to cope with climate change by 2030, a U.N. official said on Monday, adding that the continent has contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions while seeing some of ... Read More