Category: Africa and the rest of the world

An international donors’ conference is set to begin in Geneva on Monday for Sudan, where a ceasefire was holding but the UN says the humanitarian situation is worsening after two months of war. The conference comes mid-way through a three-day ceasefire which appeared to have brought calm to the capital Khartoum, after the failure of […]

This handout picture taken by RIA Novosti on June 17, 2023, shows Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) speaking with South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa (R) following a meeting with a delegation of African leaders at the Constantine (Konstantinovsky) Palace in Strelna, outside Saint Petersburg. (Photo by Evgeny Biatov / Ria Novosti / AFP) South African […]

A handout picture released by the Rio Grande do Sul State Government shows people taking shelter at the municipal gymnasium in the city of Sao Leopoldo, State of Rio Grande do Sul, after an extratropical cyclone hit the southern region of Brazil, causing thunderstorms and windstorms, on June 17, 2023. – A cyclone tore through […]

A woman sits at a bus stop featuring a campaign poster of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of the conservative New Democracy party on June 17, 2023. – Greeks will vote for the second round of the general elections on June 25, 2023. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP) After an inconclusive election in May, Greece returns […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang greet each other ahead of a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 18, 2023. (Photo by Leah Mills / Pool / AFP) Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday began the highest-level trip by a US official to […]

• Seeks use of local currencies in African trade Kenyan President, William Ruto, has called on African nations to shift away from using the United States (U.S.) dollar for intra-continental trade and opt for the use of local currencies for the purposes of buying and selling. He emphasised that the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has […]

Former US President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, New Jersey, on June 13, 2023. – Trump appeared in court in Miami for an arraignment regarding 37 federal charges, including violations of the Espionage Act, making false statements, and conspiracy regarding his mishandling of classified material after […]

An elderly Ecuadoran woman who woke up inside a coffin at her own wake is being treated at the same state hospital that declared her dead two days earlier, her son said on Sunday. A video posted on Twitter shows Bella Montoya, 76, in her open coffin breathing heavily while two men assist her. Her […]

Welsh Guards march during the Colonel’s Review at Horse Guards Parade in London on June 10, 2023 ahead of The King’s Birthday Parade. – The Colonel’s Review is the final evaluation of the parade before it goes before Britain’s King Charles III during the Trooping of the Colour on June 17. (Photo by Adrian Dennis […]

People stand by a roadblock some 500 meters from the site of a bus crash, where 10 people from a wedding party were killed, in Cessnock, in Australia’s Hunter wine region north of Sydney on June 12, 2023. – A wedding party bus crash killed 10 people in Australia’s Hunter wine region north of Sydney, […]