Category: General

This year’s Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster. The secretive Nobel committees never hint who will win the prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics or peace. It’s anyone’s guess who might win the awards […]

Burkina Faso’s new military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore told VOA in an interview Saturday he is not looking for a confrontation with Burkinabe forces that might be supporting the ousted junta. “The fight we are engaged in is not about power,” he said. Military officers Friday claimed to have ousted junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, […]

The African continent need to develop the Mango, Cassava and ICT sectors, given the great potential for value addition and export, said  Ruben Poolchund, Chief Officer for Africa at the International Trade Centre (ITC).   Speaking  at the launch of the second edition of the West Africa Connect event, in Accra, he said out of […]

TWO teams of judges and registry officers from the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) have visited the International Criminal Court (ICC) intending to enhance and exchange issues concerning international justice.   All the delegates from two groups were led by the president of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Lady […]

OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO — Gunshots rang out Saturday in Burkina Faso’s capital and soldiers deployed in the streets as tensions lingered a day after military officers overthrew the man who had seized power in a coup only nine months earlier in the West African nation.   The whereabouts of ousted interim president Lt. Col. Paul […]

Cholera is surging around the globe, the World Health Organization warns. Flareups of the deadly disease have been reported in 26 countries in the first nine months of this year. In comparison, fewer than 20 countries reported cholera outbreaks per year between 2017 and 2021. In addition to greater frequency, the WHO reports the outbreaks […]