African countries must stop selling land on “depreciated” carbon credit market, and instead the continent should strive to become the global centre for high-value, high-integrity carbon credits, according to a new report from the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC). Released at COP28 by the Nigeria-based AFC, the positioning paper warns that at a critical moment in […]
Survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have criticized United Nations court’s call to halt the trial of the nearly 90-year-old Felicien Kabuga, an alleged financier and supporter of the massacre due to the suspect’s ill health. In June, judges at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals halted Kabuga’s trial because he has dementia […]
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) sees new opportunities in the mayhem prevailing in Iraq. The fall of Mosul on June 10 to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) propelled a humiliating retreat of the US-equipped Iraqi army from several key cities north of Baghdad including Baiji, home to the Iraq’s largest oil refinery […]
