The increasing push for voluntary carbon markets in Africa has raised critical concerns about their real impact on the continent. While positioned as a solution to...
Kenya’s High Court quashed a tax measure meant to bankroll President William Ruto’s campaign pledge to build affordable housing, saying it was unconstitutional. A mandatory 1.5% housing...
NEW DELHI, Nov 3 – People in New Delhi woke up to a thick layer of toxic haze on Friday, and some schools were ordered to...
SEOUL, Oct 31 – North Korea is poised to close as many as a dozen embassies including in Spain, Hong Kong, and multiple countries in Africa,...
South Korea’s constitutional court has upheld a law banning same-sex relations in the military, in what activists have called a setback for LGBT rights. The court...
GAZA/MOSCOW, Oct 27 – A Hamas official tied the release of hostages held in Gaza to a ceasefire in Israel’s punishing air war in the enclave,...
Ankara, Turkey – In a significant geopolitical development, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has signed Sweden’s NATO accession protocol, marking a pivotal step in Sweden’s...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege will join a growing list of candidates looking to unseat Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi in elections scheduled for December. Mukwege, a...
Ethiopia’s sovereign-risk premium has hit a record high after last week’s downgrade deeper into junk by Moody’s Investors Service. The extra yield investors demand to own Ethiopia’s dollar...
France’s ambassador to Niger left the country, three days after President Emmanuel Macron said the envoy would be pulled out of the West African nation and French troops...