Africa Climate Summit: continent’s leaders ‘must dare speak unspeakable’

As Kenya is preparing to host the Africa Climate Summit next month, African leaders should be ready for serious and frank discussions about the climate change challenges that threaten to make large parts of the continent uninhabitable. The event will take place alongside Africa Climate Week (ACW) 2023 and a pre-event, the 11th Conference on […]

AFRICOM boss tours West Africa, meets G5 Sahel leaders

The Commander of the US Africa Command, General Stephen Townsend, is undertaking this week his first multi-country regional visit to West Africa.   On Tuesday, General Stephen Townsend met in Ouagadougou with President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso and several other Burkinabe and allied military leaders. Meetings focused on building a comprehensive understanding […]

After UAE, Saudi Arabia & Turkey pledge to donate Covid-19 vaccine doses to Tunisia

Tunisia is set to receive over one million Covid-19 vaccine doses to ramp up the vaccination campaign following pledges by Saudi Arabia and Turkey, one day after the UAE pledged half a million doses. The kingdom of Saudi Arabia made the pledge through its envoy to the North African country, Abdelaziz Ben Ali Sakr who […]