Albania will prepare a legal package with main acts for climate protection within 2018, sources from the Ministry of Environment told local media on Wednesday. According to ministry’s representatives, this package aims at air decarbonization and keeping parameters according to the terms of the Paris agreement. In order to implement this agreement, the Environment Ministry […]

Dr. Sultan Al-Jaber, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of State, said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua that his country expects from fellow Gulf state Qatar “to stop blatantly and openly working against the stability and security of the UAE and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.” Three days after the UAE, Saudi Arabia and […]

When nature strikes humanity, we call it disaster since it is uncontrollable. But it is sad to note that “Man’s inhumanity to man,” is the leading cause of pain to the human race worldwide. The gruesome pain and death visited on Captain Maxwell Adams Mahama, while at the service of his country, is a classical […]

U.S. President Donald Trump offered to help Qatar and the other Gulf nations resolve their differences, including through a meeting at the White House if necessary, the White House said Wednesday. In a telephone conversation with Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar, Trump reiterated that a united Gulf Cooperation Council and a […]

Ten peacekeepers of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) have been injured when their vehicle drove over an unexploded ordnance in Sudan’s West Darfur, according to the mission spokesman Wednesday. “This incident took place Friday when a patrol of the mission was on its way back to the mission base in al-Tina town, […]

It’s the most famous front door in the world, home to British prime ministers since 1735, and this week the focal point of Britain’s snap general election. The way people vote on Thursday will determine whether Theresa May hangs onto the keys to 10 Downing Street, or unceremoniously hands them over to a new occupant, […]

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on Wednesday reiterated that the empowerment of women and the youth was the surest way of rooting out poverty and guaranteeing progress and prosperity of Ghana and Africa. Addressing the opening of the 2017 European Development Days Conference in Belgium, a leading forum on international cooperation and development, Akufo-Addo said this […]

The Parliament of Zimbabwe has written to Chinese contractors to expedite commencement of construction of a new parliament building in the outskirts of Harare. Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda told a press conference Wednesday that the Chinese contractors had planned to start construction of the new parliament building in December after giving the Zimbabwe government […]

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) closed lower on Wednesday, following news that South Africa entered into a recession. The all share was 0.26 percent weaker at 52,217.82 points, its weakest point since April, and the Resource 20 index was off 0.23 percent. On the JSE, Anglo American was up 0.71 percent to R173.45, Glencore gained […]

Kenya is planning to expand its flower exports to China as part of its diversification strategy, an industry official said on Wednesday. Kenya Flower Council (KFC) chairman Richard Fox told a media briefing in Nairobi that currently less than 1 percent of all flower exports goes China directly. “We are encouraging flower producers to establish […]

Drought-hit livestock farmers in Namibia are expected to benefited from a coming European financial grant program, which will run over a period of six years worth 20 million euros. EU Press and Information Officer Susan Lewis on Tuesday said the Namibian government and the EU will launch the program called “Support to the livestock sector […]

Ghana will from this year introduce human pollinators in its cocoa industry to enhance yields, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) announced late Tuesday. Joseph Boahen Aidoo said through hand pollination, the country would be able to reverse the long period of low crop yields being experienced by farmers. Addressing the […]

The United Nations was inundated on Tuesday by water issues: The Ocean Conference focused on rising, polluted seas while the Security Council examined the threat to international peace and security by conflicts involving fresh water that crosses borders. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, sitting alongside President Evo Morales of Bolivia, this month’s president of the Security […]

Growing cracks within the South Sudan rebel movement coupled with international pressure on the government side seem to provide a ray of hope to the end of the conflict in the war-torn country. Several rebel factions within the country are now expressing willingness to negotiate peace with the government, according to some top military officers […]

Ghana stood to miss out on its revenue targets for 2017 due to lower growth potentials in the economy, an economist projected on Tuesday. Olabode Augusto told the media during the Seminar on Ghana’s Macro-economic Landscape that the country needed a competitive taxation strategy to run the economy. “The revenue projections, especially the tax revenue […]

Chinese electronics maker Hisense celebrated a milestone at its manufacturing facility in South Africa’s Atlantis on Monday as both the one millionth television set and the one millionth fridge unit rolled off the production line. The factory of Hisense South Africa is also marking its fourth year of operation in Atlantis outside Cape Town. The […]

The Representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) said the hospitals in Syria are now in critical situation because of Western sanctions. WHO representative in Syria, Elizabeth Hoff, said there aren’t enough equipment and replacement parts for X-ray, ultrasound machines, endoscopes and other scanners in the hospitals because of restrictive measures against the republic. According […]

Earlier this year, the Youth Employment Agency suspended the payment of allowances to over 60,000 beneficiaries on suspicions of discrepancies in the report handed to it by the managers under the previous administration. A full-scale audit revealed that, many people who did not deserve to receive monies from the Agency were doing so fraudulently. The […]

The Tanzanian government on Monday injected 94 million U.S. dollars into the country’s Tanzania Agriculture Development Bank (TADB) to help empower farmers. The money, a soft loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB), is aimed at empowering the bank to have enough capital that will help it fulfill its main role of financially empowering small […]

The Tanzanian government on Monday injected 94 million U.S. dollars into the country’s Tanzania Agriculture Development Bank (TADB) to help empower farmers. The money, a soft loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB), is aimed at empowering the bank to have enough capital that will help it fulfill its main role of financially empowering small […]