People smugglers made billions on the backs of some 2.5 million desperate migrants in 2016, the UN said in a report Wednesday as the plight of refugees worldwide continues to top the headlines. The report, issued by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said people-smuggling rings earned some $7.0 billion (7.0 billion euros) in 2016 -- an amount, it ...
Few people in Ghana would be able to recognise Anas Aremeyaw Anas on the street -- but almost everyone knows his name and his burgeoning reputation as the country's anti-corruption hero. The journalist keeps his identity a closely-guarded secret and on camera wears a trademark hooded tunic, his face covered by a veil of red-and-white beads. H ...
The EU wants to pay for military equipment, including lethal weaponry, for partner countries in crisis zones such as Africa's Sahel region as part of a 10.5-billion euro ($12.4-billion) peace facility launched on Wednesday. The bloc says the new European Peace Facility (EPF) is needed to make its training missions in three African countries mo ...
Italy postponed high-level talks with France Wednesday after Paris blasted Rome for its nauseating refusal to take in a migrant rescue ship, in a major diplomatic spat. Italy's new economy minister Giovanni Tria had been due to meet his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire in Paris Wednesday afternoon. But the talks were delayed as both countr ...
After weeks of crisis and intervention by the country's top court, Madagascar now has a unity government supposed to bring rivals together and steer the island nation to elections. But, among the opposition, the mood is sour and resentment still simmers. The government was unveiled on Monday by President Hery Rajaonarimampianina and his prime ...
Until last week, Mozambique's northern district of Macomia was a remote and peaceful place, surrounded by dense tropical forests. Today, that tranquility has been brutally shattered and replaced by fear and suspicion. Macomia has become the latest target of a shadowy jihadist force that has terrorised the country's far north since last Octobe ...
The United States, Mexico and Canada won the right to host the 2026 World Cup after easily beating Morocco in a vote by FIFA member nations on Wednesday. The joint North American bid received 134 of the 203 votes, while Morocco polled 65 in the ballot at a FIFA Congress held in Moscow on the eve of the 2018 World Cup. Global football's showpi ...
An Italian coastguard ship carrying more than 900 migrants was allowed to dock in Sicily Wednesday, after Italy controversially turned away a separate foreign vessel with rescued migrants on board. The Diciotti ship arrived at the port of Catania and the migrants began to disembark, an AFP photographer saw. They were saved during several resc ...
BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhua) - Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met with Ghana 39;s Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey in Beijing on Tuesday. Yang, who is also director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, said both countries have ...
The United Nations aid chief raised alarm Tuesday over a worsening food crisis in the Sahel region that has sent malnutrition rates skyrocketing to their worst level since 2012. Nearly six million people are struggling to feed themselves in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal, where 1.6 million children are suffering from sev ...
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