(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leaders from Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea, have made a strong plea for action to rescue a world teetering on the precipice of climate catastrophe and struggling under the weight of an outdated and unfair global financial system. The leaders made the call in their statements at the ongoing UN General Assembly’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Wednesday called for expansion of the UN Security Council and reform of the right of veto granted to its permanent members. Zelenskyy spoke in his first in-person address around the iconic horseshoe table in a meeting in the Security Council chamber at the UN General Assembly in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday called on world leaders to affirm democratic governance as the best guarantor of the sovereign will and well-being of the people, saying military coups are wrong. Tinubu said this in his inaugural statement to the 78th session of the General Assembly at the UN headquarters in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina Mohammed, has proposed some actions to Nigeria Governors’ Wives Forum to help stem migration flows and ensure that Africa’s youths have right conditions to fulfil their dreams. Mohammed made the call at the New York 2023 Nigeria Economic Growth and Trade Summit with the theme“ Stemming Migration […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he cares less about who comes to New York and more about what gets done, especially as it concerns reviving the lagging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Guterres told journalists on Sunday in New York as some high-profile world leaders opted out of the UN General Assembly’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned of “concerning trends” for Covid-19 ahead of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, calling for increased vaccinations and surveillance. While data is limited because many countries have stopped reporting Covid data, the UN health agency estimated that hundreds of thousands of people around the world were […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain’s Charles III reaches the milestone of his first year as king this week, with his reign so far characterised by a smooth transition from that of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The anniversary on Friday is expected to be marked privately, given the date is also that of his mother’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – French authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday, arguing the garment violated France’s strict secular laws in education. “It will no longer be possible to wear an abaya at school,” Education Minister Gabriel Attal told TF1 television, saying […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Russian paramilitary fighters will have to swear an oath to the Russian flag, a presidential decree signed Friday stipulates, two days after the presumed death of mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. The measure is aimed at “forming the spiritual and moral foundations for the defence of the Russian Federation” and… applies to members […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 7th Korea-Africa Economic Cooperation (KOAFEC) Ministerial Conference has been scheduled to will be hold from 12th to 15th of September in Busan, Republic of Korea. The KOAFEC Ministerial Conference was initiated in 2006 to promote high-level policy dialogue on Korea-Africa cooperation and has since evolved into a biennial gathering. The sixth […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of Russia, Vladimir Putin has said the Kremlin wants to see an end to the conflict in Ukraine which he claimed was “unleashed by the West and its satellites.” Putin made this statement on Wednesday at the inaugural BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he attended virtually The summit opened […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A US federal appeals court on Wednesday imposed restrictions on a widely used abortion pill, but the ruling will remain on hold as the Supreme Court decides whether to hear the case. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals would limit use of mifepristone […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States has chartered a plane to evacuate its non-essential personnel from coup-hit Niger, a State Department official said Thursday. The flight, which is also open to American citizens wishing to leave the West African country, is scheduled to depart Friday afternoon from Niamey “if all things go right,” the official […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The European Union (EU) has stated that it has suspended its budget support in Niger Republic over the military coup. The African Examiner recalls that Amadou Abdramane, a colonel-major, announced the removal of President Mohamed Bazoum from office in a late-night address on Wednesday. Also, Abdramane dissolved the country’s constitution and suspended […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former US president Donald Trump said Tuesday he has received a letter from prosecutors suggesting he is likely to be criminally indicted over the January 6 riot at the US Capitol. “Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter… stating that I am a TARGET of the January […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Iran President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi is expected in Zimbabwe on Thursday on a two-day State visit. The two countries started having cordial relations in 1983 at the height of Zimbabwe’s civil war which saw thousands of Ndebeles being massacred in the hands of the former President Mugabe’s reign. Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Foreign […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A white powder that was found in the White House and sparked a brief security alert has been confirmed to be cocaine, the Secret Service said Wednesday. The powder’s discovery in the West Wing on Sunday was initially treated as a potential danger, prompting a brief evacuation. An initial test of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that any attempt to blackmail Russia or foment unrest would fail, after an armed rebellion shook his more than two decades of rule. “Civilian solidarity showed that any blackmail, any attempts to organise internal turmoil, is doomed to fail,” Putin said in a televised address. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ms Emmanuelle Blatmann, French Ambassador to Nigeria, said France has invested 600,000 Euros for the promotion of French language in Nigeria. Blatmann revealed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of the solidarity fund for innovative projects (FSPI) launch in Abuja. According to her, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes are responsible for more than 70 percent of all deaths globally. Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus disclosed this in his opening remarks at a virtual press conference on global health issues held […]
