Staff Writer

 On 28 March 2025 the Director of the Regional Integration Coordination Office of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org), Joy Kategekwa, received a delegation from the Ombudsmen Association of the member states of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). Led by the association’s president, Pascal Essou, Ombudsman of the Republic of Benin, the meeting took place at the Bank’s headquarters in Abidjan. The ombudsmen were keen to obtain the […]

 On April 8, commencing at around 5:00 PM for approximately 35 minutes, Mr. IWAYA Takeshi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, held a telephone talk with H. E. Dr. Badr Ahmed Mohamed Abdelatty, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Expatriates Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The overview is as follows: At the outset, Minister Abdelatty explained about the Gaza reconstruction plan led by Egypt, and in response, Minister […]

 The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is extending its partnership with the Novo Nordisk Foundation, through a historic private-public sector collaboration that brings in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Grundfos Foundation, to expand home-grown school meals programme in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. This partnership builds on WFP’s leading work on school meals globally to co-create a programme to deliver safe, nutritious, and locally sourced school meals, […]

 Feuding communities in Greater Kapoeta have taken a significant step towards reconciliation by hosting a peace conference aimed at resolving conflicts between the Toposa of Eastern Equatoria and the Murle of the Greater Pibor Administrative Area. Years of violence, fueled by cattle raids and child abductions, escalated recently when armed attackers invaded Kauto village, resulting in 31 deaths and the abduction of 24 children. In response, the Eastern Equatoria government, […]

 Medical aid coverage is the exception rather than the rule across Africa: On average across 28 countries, fewer than one in four adults say they have insurance that helps pay their medical bills if they get sick, the latest Afrobarometer (www.Afrobarometer.org) findings reveal. Most citizens say they worry about being unable to obtain or afford medical care when they need it, including more than half who say they worry “a lot.” And […]

 The 3rd Awareness Enhancing Workshop on the Importance of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Blue Economy in Africa’s Socio-Economic Development, is being held from 07–09 April 2025 in Johannesburg, South Africa, bringing together key stakeholders from AU Member States, Regional Economic Communities, development partners, and civil society, and AWFISHNET South Africa Chapter to strengthen regional dialogue and action around Africa’s aquatic wealth. Organized by AU-IBAR and AUDA-NEPAD, the workshop is focusing on […]

 On 3 April 2025 in Praia, Cape Verde, an ECOWAS mission led by the Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitisation, Mr Sediko Douka, accompanied by the ECOWAS Resident Representative in Cape Verde and the Acting Director and Programme Officer of the Project Preparation and Development Unit (PPDU), visited the cape Verdean minister for Infrastructure, Spatial Planning and Housing. On the agenda was a meeting on ECOWAS support for the development of […]

 António Guterres joined survivors, diplomats and civil society members for the annual ceremony in the UN General Assembly Hall to mourn the lives lost in this “chilling chapter in human history” and to prevent it from ever happening again. He recalled that the genocide occurred at terrifying speed. The atrocities took place over 100 days, starting on 7 April 1994.  Some one million children, women and men were killed.  While the overwhelming […]

 The number of children going hungry in war-torn eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has surged 50% due to an escalation in violence this year with 2.3 million more children now going without enough food [1], according to Save the Children. An analysis of new data from the leading international authority on food insecurity, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), shows that the number of […]