Africa

At a meeting in the Kenyan capital, the governments of five of the seven countries belonging to the East African Community launched a plan to prevent the outbreak of a new armed conflict in the North Kivu region in the…

Authorities in the central state of Warrap, South Sudan, today reiterated their call for civilians to turn in hundreds of weapons in their possession, in order to reduce communal violence in the territory. The appeal by the state governor, General…

A UN brokered two-month renewable truce between the warring parties in Yemen is holding, Special Envoy Hans Grundberg told the Security Council on Thursday, providing “light at the end of the tunnel”, and the possibility of a lasting peace.  The first…

The Kahuzi-Biega National Park, located in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a destination for many tourists to see the subspecies of gorilla Gorilla Gorilla beringei graueri, known as the eastern lowland gorilla and which only lives…

Over the years, Russia’s participation in the meeting of League of Arab States (LAS), that consists of a host of Middle Eastern and North African countries, the discussions focused on their regional conflicts, its implications and impact on development. It…

Divine Bamboo is the name of the Ugandan company that produces bamboo briquettes. “I wanted to do something that encompassed both my passion for nature and also helped in the fight against climate change and deforestation,” says the company’s founder…

Russian diplomats at the Foreign Ministry have been stepping efforts to get first-hand blistering information on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, its primary causes and implications to African governments. By Kester Kenn Klomegah On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a…

Since the letter from President Pedro Sánchez to the King of Morocco was made public on Friday 17 March, the reactions to it have been numerous and disparate, although most of them coincide in criticising both the substance and the…

I managed to get a government permission to visit the National Museum in Addis Ababa to see my very old sister, “Lucy”. It was only the partial skeleton of a woman about 3,2 million years old, dug out in 1974.…

The Republic of Côte d’Ivoire deposited its instrument of ratification of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on 23 March 2022. Côte d’Ivoire is the fifth West African country to ratify the TPNW, following Benin,…