An independent UN human rights expert, Olivier De Shutter, says although poverty and privilege “continue to reproduce themselves in vicious cycles,” it is possible to break...
After a big drop in 2021 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) reached an estimated 852 billion dollars in the first half...
The ECOWAS Parliament said that 99.92 per cent of its 2022 budget of more than 20 million (20,401,258) Units of Account (UA), would be funded using...
Africa’s fabled eastern glaciers will vanish in two decades, 118 million poor people face immanent drought, floods or extreme heat, and climate change could also shave...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is preparing to set up “in the coming days” a new national aviation company called “Air Congo”, according to...
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana have cautioned incumbent Presidents of ECOWAS Countries against holding on to power beyond constitutional provisions, a phenomenon he noted is the...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, on Tuesday, urged the COP26 climate change conference to seek to bring about “a turning point” if countries are to limit global...
Data-rigging allegations against International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, were set to loom over the opening of week-long IMF-World Bank annual meetings on Monday as...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the caretaker government in Afghansitan said on Monday that talks with the United States would continue if necessary. Over the...
The United Nations says a single metric tonne of cotton provides jobs for five people on the average, often in some of the world’s most impoverished...