While global powers scramble for Africa’s critical minerals, Singapore is quietly charting a different path — targeting the continent’s carbon credits to meet its climate goals and become Asia’s carbon trading hub. The city-state, constrained by its small size and lack of natural resources, has limited scope to develop large-scale carbon offset projects domestically. Instead, […]
A United Nations’ International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague opens a trial with a frail 87-year-old Rwandan accused of encouraging and bankrolling the country’s 1994 genocide on Thursday (29 September), nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre left 800,000 dead. Félicien Kabuga is one of the last fugitives charged over the genocide […]
Heavy clashes broke out on Wednesday, September 24, in the western Libyan city of Zawiya, about 60 km west of Tripoli, between factions affiliated with the Government of National Unity (GNU). According to the Libyan News Agency, fighting erupted after the Interior Ministry’s Security Threats Apparatus arrested members of the Al-Kaboutat armed group, which is […]
