Campaign posters of President Yoweri Museveni hang on a cable a day after the election commission said he won a sixth term in office. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images Yoweri Museveni has claimed victory in Uganda’s recent elections, potentially extending his presidential rule...
DP World and UNICEF have announced a wide-ranging partnership to support the global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and related immunization supplies in low- and lower-middle-income countries. The new partnership – with a multi-million dollar value – is the largest to date to...
From rock art in southern Africa to pyramids along the River Nile, humans have been leaving their mark across the continent for millennia. But extreme weather events, the rise in sea levels and other challenges associated with the changing climate...
French Air Force soldiers work on a Boeing C135 parked on the French Air Force base in Niamey, Niger in December, 2017. Recent media reports claim that a covert Kenyan paramilitary team is responsible for the unconstitutional killing of terror suspects in...
ABHISHEK MISHRA Based on an agreement reached on 26 February this year, Republic of China (Taiwan) recently opened a representative office on 17 August in Hargeisa, the capital of Republic of Somaliland, a self-declared autonomous region within Somalia that is not recognised...
African leaders at the 33rd African Union Heads of State Summit at the headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in February 2020. Since its inception in 2002 the African Union has been under pressure to resolve the extensive peace and security...
Taiwan has given a contemporary diplomatic blow to China within the strategically situated Horn of Africa. Taiwan has formally opened a Consultant Workplace in Somaliland, a fully-functioning East African State that declared independence from a wartorn Somalia in 1991....
African Union Commission inaugurates African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) permanent secretariat as launchpad for Africa’s economic transformation The African Development Bank Group provided a $5 million institutional support grant to the AU towards the establishment of the AfCFTA secretariat ABIDJAN,...
Key generals have attacked Xi Jinping for squandering China’s big chance. They say his tactics have ruined their chances of world domination. Jamie Seidel@JamieSeidel One man. One party. One country of 1.4 billion people. Little wonder Chairman-for-life Xi Jinping is worried...
By Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf The Charter of the United Nations is not only the constituent instrument of the United Nations as an organization. It is a multilateral legal manifesto encompassing a set of basic principles and norms aimed at ensuring...