Tanks and gunfire mark renewed clashes on the outskirts of Taiz. Inside the Yemeni city, mounting rubbish and blocked roads are raising concerns about public health.

Thousands of protesters marched through Athens on Wednesday 21 October, demanding greater investment in education. Crowds filled the streets of the capital, waving banners, chanting slogans and beating drums as they made their way past the Greek parliament.

David Olarte Amaya, Vice-Minister for Environmental Territorial Planning, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia. PHOTO/ PHOTO/ IISD/ENB – Mike Muzurakis. By PATRICK MAYOYO The 2026 United Nations Biodiversity  Conference continued in Yerevan, Armenia, with countries under pressure to turn ambitious global conservation pledges into concrete action, as a landmark assessment warned of widening gaps between international commitments and implementation on the ground. Delegates attending the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17) face mounting concerns that the world is not moving fast enough to achieve the targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), agreed in 2022 to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. The conference, which also brings together parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and the fair sharing of benefits, has placed f...

Climate and biodiversity crises are interconnected and require coordinated government action. PHOTO/GREENPEACE. By PATRICK MAYOYO Greenpeace has urged governments attending the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP17) to move beyond acknowledging failures and adopt concrete measures to halt biodiversity loss and prevent irreversible ecosystem collapse, warning that the world is falling dangerously behind its 2030 nature protection targets. The environmental organisation said the summit must deliver decisive action on financing, harmful subsidies and policies driving the destruction of nature, as governments prepare to assess collective progress under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF). Four years after the framework was adopted, CBD COP17 will conclude the Convention’s first Global Review of progress towards its goals and targets, providing a critical assessment of whether countries are on course to meet their commitments. An Lambrechts, head of the Greenpeace ...

In tonight’s edition: Sudan’s brutal war continues to take a devastating regional toll, as a drone strike in Abyei reportedly kills 153 people. We speak to the UN envoy for Sudan following an emergency international meeting on the escalating crisis. Also, health authorities prepare to coordinate a response as Ebola cases emerge in Nigeria and rise in Kenya. Finally, ten years after Cameroon’s deadliest railway disaster, families of the 79 victims are still fighting for justice, saying their pain has yet to be acknowledged.

The death toll from a drone strike Monday on a market in an area disputed between Sudan and South Sudan has risen to 153 and is likely even higher, a local official told AFP on Wednesday. Authorities in Abyei district said the strike on the Amiet market involved the use of multiple munitions and was carried out by the Sudanese army. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with Jan Pospisil, Sudan Affairs Analyst at the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform. He says that for a long time the Sudanese army has tried "to portray a picture internationally that they are humane, whereas RSF is committing atrocities. Here we see very clearly that there is not much difference between these two".

A Kaspersky-commissioned survey highlights how relatives and friends help older people use technology. For South African banks and digital-service providers, the findings raise practical questions about accessibility, customer support and account control.

Virgin Atlantic plans to increase Johannesburg–London Heathrow services to ten weekly flights from December 2026 until late March 2027. Daily Airbus A350-1000 operations return on 25 October.

✠  Tagline  ✠ Fr. Nwaimo walks through a ministry that runs from a first posting at Ulakwo in 2002 to Holy Family, Uratta, by way of a seminary and a college chaplaincy. He names the community that changed him most: Orodo, which he served first as a seminarian and again as a priest. Rev. Fr. Dr. Kenneth […]

Afaraukwu, September 2017: Soldiers at the Gate of a Man on Bail Five months after a federal judge granted Nnamdi Kanu bail, soldiers came to his family home. This part sets out the army’s denial, the witnesses’ account, the operation around the raid and what two courts later found about it. Prof. MarkAnthony Nze RESEARCH […]