For countries in Africa and other areas where health resources are limited, a little-understood pandemic such as COVID-19 is a challenge that requires a whole-of-society response
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 22, 2020/ -- By Siddharth Chatterjee, United Nations Resident Coordinator to...
By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh
US President Biden and his administration are set to renew their commitments and hold discussions relating to the global economy, democracy and governance, climate change, health and security, women, youth and education during the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit,...
Senior adviser to Somaliland Presidency has said Thursday that the U.S. would officially recognize Somaliland as an independent nation or wouldl continue to diplomatically engage SL and deal with it as a de facto in December that has nothing...
The UN Security Council members on Tuesday rejected President Farmaajo’s extension of term, but endorsed efforts of the African Union to help parties resolve an electoral impasse.
Members of the UN’s most powerful body gathered for an informal sitting meant...
The Blue Nile river flows near the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Assosa, Ethiopia, on June 28, 2013.ELIAS ASMARE/AP
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s deputy army chief on Friday said his country will strongly defend itself and...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, the 29-year-old commander of the almost negligible air force of the United Arab Emirates, had come to Washington shopping for weapons.
In 1991, in the months after Iraq’s invasion of...
For a period of time between 1986 and the early 2000s Uganda was considered to be a country committed to democratic reform. But in recent years the democratic space has shrunk dramatically.
In a recently published journal article I argue that two...
U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar inked the deal in an opulent hall in a five-star hotel in Dohar, Qatar. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo witnessed the signing.
The agreement lays out a path...
New York-US and Iran have exchanged prisoners after the US released an Iranian-detained Iranian scientist, and the Iranian government has released a US military officer who has spent several years in Iran.
President Donald Trump confirmed Iran’s release and thanked...
The African region is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of reported confirmed COVID-19 cases
BRAZZAVILLE, Congo (Republic of the), March 26, 2020/ -- The African region is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of reported confirmed COVID-19...