The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has appointed a new Acting Secretary-General of the Parliament, Mr Bertin Somé. The appointment was done by the Speaker of the Parliament, Mr Sidie Tunis, in a statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by...
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By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has condemned the violence that erupted in Guinea Bissau in the early hours of Friday. This is contained in a statement issued on Start by the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja. It stated that the community...
King Charles III on Friday urged participants at the COP28 climate conference to take swift and resolute steps to protect the planet, in an impassioned call for action. The British monarch in Dubai said the world’s hopes rest on heads of state and government as he expressed a...
Madagascar’s High Constitutional Court on Friday declared incumbent President Andry Rajoelina as the winner of last month’s election, effectively handing him a third term. Rajoelina got 58.96 per cent of the votes cast, the court said after dismissing various challenges lodged against the provisional results announced by the...
Gun shots were fired overnight in Guinea-Bissau’s capital Bissau and continued into Friday morning, Reuters reporters said. The circumstances of the shooting remain unclear. One reporter said gunshots were first heard after midnight in the neighbourhood of Antula, on the outskirts of the capital, where an army general...
Israeli warplanes resumed the pounding of Gaza, Palestinian civilians fled for shelter, and rocket sirens blared in southern Israel on Friday as war resumed after a week-long truce collapsed with no deal to extend it. The Israeli military announced it had “resumed combat operations”, accusing Hamas of violating...
A Ugandan woman aged 70 has given birth to twins, her doctor said Thursday, in what the mother hailed as a miracle. Safina Namukwaya described her joy at the arrival of the twins who were born on Wednesday at a medical facility in the capital Kampala,...
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, on Thursday said debt, currency depreciation, inflation and other indices have slowed down the economies of countries in the sub region. This was contained in the 2023 Annual State of the Community Report he presented to the ECOWAS Parliament...
The 28th session of the Conference of Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opened on Thursday in Dubai, with a call to accelerate collective climate action. The conference is taking place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in a year climate scientists said...
A former United States Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, has been confirmed dead at the age of 100. Kissinger, a controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner and diplomatic powerhouse whose service under two presidents left an indelible mark on U.S. foreign policy, died at his home in Connecticut on...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu on Friday unveiled the Governors cup competition for the year 2023. The governor, who was represented by the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly Albert Ayambem said it is not just unveiling...
The National Bank of Rwanda in its latest report said Rwanda’s economy remained resilient in the 2022-2023 fiscal year despite the global economic slowdown. The central bank’s report for 2022-2023, presented to parliament in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, said that the economic resilience primarily stemmed from a...
A group of Russian women harshly criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin for concealing information about the front line of the war in Ukraine in order to secure his re-election next year and called on him to bring their husbands home. A letter posted on the Telegram channel run...
Six teenagers go on trial behind closed doors on Monday in connection with the beheading of French history teacher, Samuel Paty in 2020, a murder that shocked the country. The teacher had shown his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression, angering...
Hamas handed over a third group of hostages to Red Cross staff on Sunday as part of a four-day ceasefire agreement in the Gaza war, raising hopes of an extended truce with the release of further hostages in the coming days. With the release of 14 Israelis and...
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has said that Africa can industrialise, integrate, and finance its development without depending on foreign support. Mr Adam Elhiraika, the Director, Macro Economic Policy Division at ECA, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the continent could not afford to continue...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has condemned the plot by some individuals to truncate democracy and disturb the peace of Sierra Leonians. It also called for the arrest and prosecution of everyone involved in the illegality. ...
The Sierra Leone Civil Aviation Authority (SLCAA) has imposed a rescheduling of flights for departing airlines. In a statement on Sunday by the Management of SLCAA, the authority said the rescheduling of the flights is in view of the nationwide curfew imposed by the government. “SLCAA is aware...
A military armoury in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown came under attack on Sunday, the government announced, as it imposed an immediate national curfew. The government said those attempting to break into the armoury at a major army barracks had been repelled, but the public were asked...
Another 42 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are to be released on Saturday as part of the agreement between the Israeli government and the Islamist Hamas movement, according to the Times of Israel newspaper. Israel will initially transfer the detainees to Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank...