South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa recently announced an action plan to address the country’s growing energy crisis. It included relaxing the legislative and environmental requirements to speed up private investment and increase generation capaci…
GENEVA — The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, Friday called for more to be done to protect African refugees and migrants from traffickers on their way from the Sahel and the Horn of Africa toward North Africa and Europe.UNHCR spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo says tr…
Botswana has become the second nation in the world, after Eswatini, to reach a landmark UN goal towards eradicating AIDS, researchers said, in what health experts hailed as “stellar results”. The country has met the so-called “95-95-95” target on HIV d…
Luanda – Angolan head of State João Lourenço sent a message to his counterpart of Botswana Mokgweetsi Masisi on strengthening of cooperation between the two nations.The message was delivered by Foreign Affairs minister, Téte António, who is on a tour o…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to East Asia and Africa next week seeking to counter the influence of Russia and China in a fight for global influence.Blinken begins his travels Tuesday on a tour that will take him to Cambodia, the Phili…
The UN Committee against Torture on Friday concluded its current session by releasing findings on Botswana, Nicaragua, the State of Palestine and the United Arab Emirates The findings highlighted positive aspects of each country’s implementation of the…
Anti-UN protests turn deadly in DRCThe acting head of the United Nations mission in eastern Congo said Wednesday that they would carry out a joint investigation with national police into the shooting deaths of three peacekeepers and a dozen Congolese c…
The International Criminal Court unsealed an arrest warrant Thursday for a former Central African Republic government minister who is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.The suspect, Mahamat Nouradine Adam, is accused of committing crimes…
