INTERNATIONAL cocoa buyers have made more than half a billion dollars in upfront payments to Ghana’s state-run marketing board, Cocobod, as part of efforts to secure supplies and avert further financial losses. This follows an abrupt overhaul of the country’s cocoa marketing…
MALI’S junta has arrested four employees of Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold, marking the latest in a series of detentions of foreign mining workers amid escalating tensions between the government and international mining companies. Barrick Gold confirmed the arrests on Tuesday, stating that the…
THE commitment of $300bn annually to developing nations for climate change initiatives, as agreed upon at the COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, represents a major step forward in global climate action. This funding, which is nearly three times the previous $100bn target…
ETHIOPIA is set to welcome its first green hospital, the Roha Medical Campus (RMC), a $130 million multi-specialty facility under construction in Addis Ababa. The hospital recently achieved a historic milestone, becoming the first healthcare project in Ethiopia to gain…
DR Faustine Ndugulile, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) regional director-elect for Africa, has died at the age of 55 while receiving medical treatment in India, Tanzania’s Parliament Speaker Tulia Ackson announced on Wednesday. Plans to repatriate his body are underway,…
A NEW report from international NGO Equality Now reveals that outdated and narrow definitions of rape in 25 African countries are allowing many perpetrators to evade justice. The findings, from a comprehensive 46-page study covering 47 African nations, highlight significant gaps in…
PRESIDENT Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey was ready to help in any way possible to establish a lasting ceasefire in Gaza, and expressed satisfaction with the ceasefire agreement that has come into effect in Lebanon. Turkey, which has…
TURKEY revealed on Tuesday that it had captured and deported three Uzbek nationals suspected of killing rabbi Tzvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan citizen, in the United Arab Emirates over the weekend. The Turkish security sources, speaking to Middle East Eye on…
US President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that Israel and Lebanon have both accepted the ceasefire deal put forth by the US, which he said will come into effect at 4am local time on Wednesday. Several reports said the ceasefire…
A SEISMIC change is taking place across the political landscape in Africa. In October, The Botswana Democratic Party, which had been in power since the country gained independence from Britain in 1966, was turfed out of power by the electorate.…
