TOP EU diplomat Josep Borrell is to propose suspending political dialogue with Israel over its war in the Gaza Strip at an EU foreign ministers meeting on Monday in Brussels. The move comes after “a year of unheeded pleas by…
PRESIDENT Biden has authorized the first use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia, U.S. officials said. The weapons are likely to be initially employed against Russian and North Korean troops in defense of Ukrainian forces…
SENEGALESE voters turned out on Sunday for a decisive parliamentary election, with the outcome set to determine whether President Bassirou Diomaye Faye can deliver on his ambitious reform promises. The election follows Faye’s dramatic rise to power in March, when…
PROGRESSIVE political leaders, activists, trade unionists, and pan-African allies from across Africa and the diaspora have convened in Niger’s capital for the Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel. Taking place at the Mahatma Gandhi International Conference Centre…
SOUTH African police are under fire for blocking supplies to illegal miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine shaft near Stilfontein, approximately 140 kilometres southwest of Johannesburg. The restrictions, part of a push to flush out hundreds of ‘zama zamas’ (illegal miners),…
MISS Nigeria, Chidimma Adetshina, has expressed her pride after securing second place in the Miss Universe competition, where she was also crowned Miss Africa and Oceania. ‘I’m so proud of myself, and I just made history,’ said Adetshina following the event…
RESCUE teams in Tanzania have spent a second day combing through the rubble of a collapsed four-storey building in Dar es Salaam’s bustling Kariakoo market area, searching for survivors. The structure gave way early Saturday morning, leaving five people dead…
Mr Young Piero, Africa Coordinator and Director of Parliament Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific Joint Session at the AU has called on African youths to take responsibility for shaping the continent’s destiny. Piero gave the charge in an interview with…
THE World Bank has uncovered $32 million in unaccounted funds in Nigeria’s water project. This was disclosed in the banks’ recently released FY2024 Sanctions System Annual Report. The report showed that the missing funds were intended to bolster water infrastructure…
ON the 140th anniversary of the Berlin Conference, a pivotal moment in the history of colonialism, activists, artists, and academics gathered in Berlin under the auspices of the German cultural project Dekoloniale. Held on Friday, the event examined the far-reaching consequences…
