Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the status of women in the 1940s, thousands of women around the world meet at UN ...

A UN helicopter attempting to evacuate wounded South Sudanese soldiers in the north of the country was attacked on Friday, killing a crew member and injuring two others.

I received with shock and a resultant deep grief, the news of the transition of Mallam Kabir Dangogo in the wee hours of ...

PREGNANT players on the women’s tennis tour now can receive 12 months of paid maternity leave, and those who become parents via partner pregnancy, surrogacy or adoption can get two months off with pay ...

France said earlier this year it was working with Senegal to organize the withdrawal of French troops. The embassy said ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns that life-saving food and nutrition assistance in Central Sahel and Nigeria will halt in April 2025 without urgent funding. This warning comes as ...

In a significant move aimed at boosting industrial development across Africa, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) signed a US$450 million global credit facility with ARISE IIP, the leading ...

Africa must write its own artificial intelligence (AI) story — one of empowerment, equity, and innovation. By asserting its ...

After the humiliation Trump and Vance inflicted on Zelenskyy, European leaders rushed to offer Zelenskyy heroic treatment.

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Until US President Donald Trump and his deputy, JD Vance, publicly berated and humiliated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on February 28, 2025, one had to look back 64 years ...

In the framework of the 2025 Finance in Common Summit (FiCS), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) advocated for greater ...