IRAN has threatened the UK it will “face the consequences” if it does not release an oil tanker it seized in international waters. The Middle Eastern country’s judiciary chief Hojatoleslam Seyed Ebrahim Raeisi sent the warning after its “unlawful move to capture” the vessel.  The tanker was taken over amid suspicions it was carrying oil […]

The ECOWAS Prize of Excellence has been posthumously awarded to former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan and Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh for their contributions to West Africa. The award was which was presented to representatives of their families at the 55th Ordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Abuja, […]

More than 1.4 million displaced people in over 60 refugee hosting countries will need resettlement next year, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Monday, while also supporting a call for far greater protection for vulnerable LGBTI individuals seeking asylum. According to UNHCR’s Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2020 report, those with the greatest needs include […]

ECOWAS Parliament has urged national parliaments of member countries to ratify and domesticate the legal instruments in the Kampala convention of 2009 as recipe to finding lasting solutions to the crisis of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees in West Africa. The call came at the technical session of the Delocalised Meeting of the ECOWAS Parliament […]

A Sudanese court Sunday ordered authorities to end a nationwide internet blockade imposed by the ruling generals after a deadly crackdown on protesters earlier this month, a lawyer said. Crowds of protesters were violently dispersed on June 3 by men in military fatigues, who stormed a weeks-long protest camp outside the army headquarters in Khartoum […]

  While Hong Kong has been part of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since the British left the territory in 1997, it enjoys a unique status as a Special Administrative Region (SAR)—an autonomous territory within China that enjoys a ‘one country, two systems’ political arrangement that guarantees separate laws, judiciary, government, currency and visa […]

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s champion of entrepreneurship, has announced the line-up of speakers and activities for the 5th Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum — the largest annual gathering of African entrepreneurs and the African entrepreneurship ecosystem.

   For the Forum’s Presidential Dialogue, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), H.E Félix […]

A court has ordered Facebook and Twitter to remove any material identifying the two boys found guilty of murdering Ana Kriégel. The courts have allowed the Irish director of public prosecutions (DPP) to serve notice on the two social media companies, RTÉ reported. Ana, 14, was murdered in May 2018 by two boys who were […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his Ghanaian counterpart, John Kufuor have asked the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to intervene in the crisis rocking the Benin Republic. As was published in Channels TV, both leaders made their position known in a joint statement released on Thursday by Obasanjo’s […]