President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the global economic turmoil which has seen inflation hit a 40-year-high in the US and UK had also seen inflation surge three to four times higher in African countries than they were two years ago. President Akufo-Addo said this phenomenon of high inflation rates and downturns caused by […]
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“Thanks to MONUSCO peacekeepers we have settled here. They protect us. The day they leave here, we will also have to move to avoid being killed by the Codecos,” said a displaced woman from the Djaiba camp, in the Walendu Djatsi sector, Djugu territory, on September 14, 2022. about 65 km from Bunia, in Ituri. […]
While the Covid-19 pandemic and East European war have severe global consequences, Minister Naledi Pandor says the world should not neglect the needs of the marginalised. “Our greatest global challenges are poverty, inequality, joblessness and feeling excluded,” the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Minister said on Wednesday. Pandor was delivering South Africa’s statement […]
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Mali National Day
On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Mali on the 62nd anniversary of your independence. The United States will continue to partner with the people of Mali in their aspirations for democracy, security, development, and human rights. We support the Malian people in their pursuit of responsive governance and […]
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced that its Seventh Replenishment Conference, hosted in New York today by President Biden, has raised a total of US$14.25 billion, with more pledges expected over the next few weeks. The RBM Partnership thanks President Biden and the US government for its remarkable leadership and […]
The number of people facing life-threatening levels of hunger worldwide without immediate humanitarian aid, is expected to rise steeply in coming weeks, the UN said on Wednesday, in a new alert about looming famine in the Horn of Africa and beyond. In Somalia, “hundreds of thousands are already facing starvation today with staggering levels of […]
President Paul Kagame has said that there is all evidence to indicate that the future lies in digitalisation and that transformation is already underway. Speaking at the 77th UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, Kagame stressed the need to increase global health financing saying that Africa is doing its part but the world […]
Referring to a world in a state of turbulence, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda on Wednesday called for multilateral cooperation and efforts to address intersecting crises, including climate change, food price inflation, conflict and migration. The Secretary-General’s landmark report Our Common Agenda has only grown in value since it was launched one year ago. But […]
It was doubtful that any generation of Earth’s inhabitants has ever witnessed “such a perfect storm of global economic chaos, a war with global consequences, and an unwillingness or inability to find a consensus to deal with the catastrophe,” the President of Ghana told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. President Akufo-Addo’s address to the […]
Libyan President Muhammad Yunus Al-Manfi told the 77th session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that as it moves towards building a State of institutions and establishing principles of democracy, his country has through a decade of “pain and hope”. He upheld his commitment to the Libyan Political Agreement, and as “the supreme political […]
The major challenges facing humanity “complex and interlocking,” Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), said on Tuesday evening, while he also noted that the DRC had faced decades of ‘agression’ at the hands of a neighbouring country. “Peace and security for all, controlling climate change, relaunching the global […]
The current session of the UN General Assembly provides a “solemn opportunity” to consider common challenges that are of serious concern to the future of humanity, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra of the Central African Republic (CAR) told the global gathering on Tuesday “More than ever, the question of security, peace, the environment, and health are entering […]
NEW YORK – Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah held talks on Tuesday with his Maldivian counterpart Abdulla Shahid on the sidelines of the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York. The officials signed a memorandum of understanding on political consultations between their countries with the aim of bolstering their ties […]
VICE-PRESIDENT Philip Mpango has reaffirmed commitment by the government of Tanzania in putting emphasis on transformative education system since the sector is among important components towards attaining Development Agenda 2030. Dr Mpango made the reaffirmation on Tuesday in New York, United States, during a Summit on Transforming Education which is part of the ongoing 77th […]
The Uganda Red Cross Society has said lack of enough funds has frustrated their efforts to manage disasters in the country. “For example when a disaster happens, the donors will ask that we go make assessment (of the situation). They say go and write a proposal and that takes time yet the people displaced will […]
Monrovia, 20 Sept. 2022 – The 2022 Annual Meeting of the Regional Working Group on Women, Youth, Peace, and Security in West Africa and the Sahel (WGWYPS-WAS) got underway in Monrovia on Monday, 19th September with an array of governments, United Nations, and Civil Society Organizations in attendance. Led by conference organizers and trainers, fifty-seven […]
President George Manneh Weah last week Thursday, 15 September took a decision that shocked the entire country, particularly Liberia’s diplomatic missions abroad with the recall of Ambassador George W. Pattern from Washington, D.C., the United States – Liberia’s traditional partner. President Weah took the decision just as he was headed to the United Nations General […]
Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is attending the 77th session of the UN General Assembly kicked off on Tuesday in New York, the US. The world leaders are debating the reduction of poverty and instability, the development of education, youth employment, finding solutions to natural disasters, and people’s rights. President Hassan Sheikh is expected to […]