The hunger and malnutrition crisis in South Sudan has escalated, fuelled by climate-induced disasters like flooding alongside civil strife, the United Nations agencies said on Thursday. The World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a joint statement in Juba, South […]
North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) but it failed mid-flight, says the South Korean military. The ICBM launch, the North’s seventh this year, sparked an alert in Japan – but fell short, landing in the sea. Tensions are escalating amid fears the North will soon conduct a nuclear test. On Wednesday, both […]
Matt Hancock, the former Health Minister, who led Britain’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been suspended by the ruling Conservative Party after he signed up for a jungle-based reality television show. Hancock, who quit the government after he was filmed kissing a colleague in breach of lockdown rules, will join pop singer Boy George, […]
Kenya has launched an accelerator programme that seeks to create at least one million employment and entrepreneurship opportunities annually for the country’s youth in the next five years within the private sector. Kenya’s Deputy President, Geoffrey Rigathi Gachagua said in Nairobi that the Kenya Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Accelerator Programme (K-YEEAP) initiative seeks to unlock […]
Russian-installed officials in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region have said they were extending an evacuation zone from the Dnipro river, repeating claims rejected by Keiv that Ukraine could be preparing to attack the Kakhovka dam and flood the region.Evacuation In a post on Telegram, Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-backed head of the region, which is partially […]
The Ethiopian government and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) have joined hands to boost efficiency in the coffee value chain. As part of the cooperation, the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and UNIDO inked a cooperation agreement worth ten million Euros ($9,929,400) to facilitate loans to stakeholders engaged in the coffee value chain, state-affiliated […]
Saudi Arabian state oil producer Aramco, on Tuesday, posted a 39 per cent jump in its third-quarter net income that beat analysts’ forecasts, boosted by higher crude oil prices and volumes sold. Aramco’s net income rose to $42.4 billion for the three months to Sept. 30 from $30.4 billion a year earlier, it said in […]
Oil prices rose on Tuesday, paring losses from the previous session, as a weaker U.S. dollar offset widening COVID-19 curbs in China that have stoked fears of slowing fuel demand in the world’s second-largest oil consumer. Brent crude for January delivery rose 73 cents, or 0.8 per cent, to $93.54 a barrel at 0406 GMT […]
Ghana required a minimum of two billion U.S. dollars in capital investments to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on universal sanitation coverage, a senior official has said. Amidu Issahaku Chinnia, Deputy Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, announced the figure in his keynote address at the annual national conference of the water, sanitation and […]
Kenya’s African Union (AU) peace envoy, Uhuru Kenyatta, has called for a ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where fighting has led to the loss of lives and property as well as mass displacements. Kenyatta, the former Kenyan President who is also the East African Community (EAC) facilitator of the Inter-Congolese […]