US President Joe Biden has rescheduled his planned visit to Angola for December, following a delay caused by the need to oversee recovery efforts after Hurricane Milton devastated Florida, the White House announced on Wednesday. This will mark Biden’s first visit to…
DANIEL Chapo, the presidential candidate of Mozambique’s ruling party, is on track to become the country’s next leader as he leads the vote count in nine of the country’s 11 provinces. As vote counting from last week’s election continues,…
ISRAEL announced on Thursday that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7 attack, was killed, calling it a “heavy blow” to the Palestinian group. According to the Israeli military, Sinwar was eliminated in an operation in southern…
The President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, the Honourable Justice Ricardo Claúdio Monteiro Gonçalves, accompanied by the Honourable Justice Sengu Mohamed Koroma, Vice-President of the Court, paid a courtesy visit to the Office of the ECOWAS Auditor General on…
A court in Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant on Thursday for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India in August following her ouster during a student-led uprising. Chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam described the day as “remarkable,” while family members of those…
SLOVENIAN Prime Minister Robert Golob said his country supports an embargo on arms exports to Israel, STA news agency reported on Thursday. According to the report, Golob made the statement upon arrival in Brussels on for the EU-Gulf Cooperation Council…
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, on Thursday hailed China’s efforts in pursuing its climate goals, highlighting the country’s rapid progress propelled by sound policies. “China remains strongly committed to its climate goals,’’ she told the 2024…
THE Democratic Republic of Congo’s state mining company, Gecamines, has announced its first-ever shipment of germanium concentrates to Europe. The concentrates, produced at a new plant in the mining hub of Lubumbashi, will be sent to Belgian company Umicore for…
AFRICA’S business events sector, part of the global Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) industry, is seeing robust growth despite inflationary pressures and economic hurdles. The industry, valued at $16.6bn in 2023, is projected to reach $65.6bn by 2032, with…
RUSSIA is urging BRICS countriesto establish a new international payment system, immune to Western sanctions, at the upcoming summit in Kazan from October 22-24. President Vladimir Putin aims to strengthen BRICS—expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the UAE—as…
