An emergency meeting of Arab-nation foreign ministers to discuss the situation in Jerusalem has been postponed until Thursday, in order to allow for the widest participation of nations. The League of Arab States said the meeting in Cairo, requested by the Jordanian government, will focus on the crisis at the…
The construction of what will become Africa’s tallest tower is moving forward with the announcement that China Railway Construction Corporation International (CRCCI) and its Moroccan partners have inked the deal for the new building in Rabat. A signing ceremony was held late last week. The tower, designed by architects Hakim…
A report last week on President Joseph Kabila and his family’s holdings in the Democratic Republic of Congo – copper, cobalt and tin mining among them – offered a comprehensive look at what the Congo Research Group calls “a conservative reading” of assets worth tens of millions of dollars. The…
More than half of all people living with the HIV virus now have access to…
A major earthquake that sparked a small Mediterranean Sea tsunami struck Turkey and Greece early…
The Qatari foreign minister’s visit to China Thursday heightened the attention to Beijing’s influence in…
United States officials report that six teens from Burundi who traveled to Washington DC to…
Amid Mozambique’s ongoing debt scandal, a team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed…
At least 200 environmental activists, NGO personnel, journalists and wildlife defenders died in 2016, and the work of rangers in the national parks of Democratic Republic of Congo continues to make the country among the seven deadliest in the world, the new “Defenders of the Earth” report from Global Witness…
China has made plain its displeasure over the Dalai Lama’s planned August visit to Botswana, where officials have said President Ian Khama plans to meet with the Tibetan spiritual leader. The Dalai Lama will be a guest at a three-day conference at the University of Botswana in Gaborone from August…
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, along with religious leaders of the world, announced on Friday the launch of a new initiative to curb atrocities rooted in faith-based incitements to violence. The launch of the Fez Plan of Action, first drafted in Morocco in April 2015, marks two years of…
In Kenya, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) issued a warning Friday against electoral violence ahead of the country’s August 8 elections. “The Commission strongly condemns the incidents of violent interference with presidential campaigns in Kisumu, Kabarnet and Thika,” the statement said. The IEBC said it was sending teams…