Month: February 2025

 A diverse group of 60 participants, including 42 men, gathered in Kuajok, Warrap State, for a groundbreaking workshop on positive masculinity and gender equality organized by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). The event challenged traditional gender norms and urged men to take an active role in women's empowerment and combating gender-based violence. Unlike previous discussions that mainly criticized men for gender disparities, this conversation acknowledges that cultural […]

 His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio has been awarded the “Distinguished Service Order” by His Excellency Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr., President of the Republic of Liberia, for his long-term military prowess and statesmanship in the region. The award ceremony took place at the country’s 68th Anniversary Armed Forces Day celebration at the Barclay Training Centre in Monrovia. Performing the honors, His Excellency Joseph Nyuma Boakai commended President Bio for […]

 More than 19,000 civilians have reportedly been displaced and an unverified number of people killed and missing following an outbreak of violence involving cattle-raiding and revenge attacks across Magwi County, in the Eastern Equatorian region of South Sudan. Despite many challenges in accessing the affected areas, a peacekeeping patrol reached the communities in need, including in remote locations such as villages in Agoro, Chomboro, Twon-Okun in Nyolo, and displacement sites […]

 The Environmental Protection Agency of Sierra Leone (EPA-SL) has officially launched the country's first electric mobility strategy, and introduced electric three-wheelers known as e-kekes. The efforts are part of a larger initiative “Supporting Sierra Leone with the Shift to Electric Mobility” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the country and improve urban mobility and air quality with support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).   To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, “Supporting Sierra […]

 The West African region faces many challenges related to security, cross-border conflicts, political crisis and economic insecurity. In this context, the active involvement of the civil society, particularly young people, is crucial to the implementation of integration and peace promotion policies. To this end, the ECOWAS Club of the Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal, organised a meeting from 7 to 8 February 2025, with the aim of raising awareness, […]

 Egyptian authorities must stop trying civilians in military courts, said Amnesty International and the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, ahead of an expected verdict on 12 February in the military trials of five civilians in relation to fishing in a lake in North Sinai controlled by a development agency operating under the ministry of defence. On 6 and 7 January, a military police unit from the Egypt’s Future Sustainable Development […]

 The President of the Republic of Seychelles, Mr. Wavel Ramkalawan, held bilateral discussions with His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai, Minister of Defence, and Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE, on the sidelines of the World Government Summit 2025, currently taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The meeting provided an opportunity for both leaders to reaffirm the strong and longstanding […]

 By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org) The global energy marketplace is shifting toward the acceptance of natural gas as a pivotal component in the transition to cleaner energy solutions, and rightly so.   Africa, with its vast untapped gas reserves, has significant opportunities in the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade, a market that has quadrupled over the past few decades. However, a host of challenges shadow this […]