WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announces his intent to appoint the following individuals to serve in key roles:
• Laurence B. Alexander, Chair, Board for International...
Travel to Riyadh, Khartoum, and Addis Ababa
Assistant Secretary Molly Phee and newly appointed Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield will travel...
1. The Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), hereafter called Summit, was held in...
BAMAKO, MALI — After several airlines discontinued service to Mali due to new regional sanctions, the country’s government has responded with its own economic...
Plans are underway for a large communal memorial service Sunday for victims of New York City's deadliest fire in more than three decades.
Seventeen people,...
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) roundly condemns the attack on the Radio Ada (93.3 FM), a community radio station in the Greater Accra region of Ghana and demands immediate investigations and prosecution of perpetrators. A group of thu...
Windhoek: The Bank of Namibia (BoN) has maintained the repo rate at 6.75 percent for the next two months. The central bank announced this decision on Wednesday, stating that the unchanged rate aims to sustain the peg between the Namibian Dollar and th...
Addis Ababa: Ethiopia and Kenya have signed an implementation memorandum of agreement to facilitate trade relations between the two countries and ensure that people living in the border area can access essential daily commodities without any supply di...
Nairobi: Paddy rice production in Kenya has doubled over the past six years, increasing from 116,000 metric tons in 2018 to 244,000 metric tons in 2023. However, the national rice self-sufficiency rate remains below 20 percent, indicating a continued ...
PHNOM PENH — Foreign ministers of nine Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members wrapped up their annual summit Saturday with a plea for peace in the South China Sea, warnings to Myanmar's junta and plans to bolster COVID-19-injured econom...
Kamchatka, Russia's Far East — Four killer whales were rescued from stranding in an estuary in Kamchatka, as confirmed by Sergei Lebedev, the regional Minister for Emergency Situations, on Wednesday. This successful operation involved local volunteers...