Towering waves crashed against Taiwan's coastline as Typhoon Champi swept past the island on Friday, leaving one person dead, 94 injured and hundreds of flights cancelled.

A court in Abidjan has postponed a hearing on the election of Tidjane Thiam as president of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast.

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 ...

The World Health Organization warned Thursday that Africa faced a "complex" Ebola outbreak after the virus crossed from east Africa to Nigeria, marking the first case in the west of the continent.

Xenophobic unrest turns deadly in South Africa as a foreign national is beaten to death during a protest march in Durban, a city increasingly gripped by anti-migrant tensions. Meanwhile, as global efforts to raise awareness of lead poisoning intensify, teams in Ivory Coast go door-to-door testing homes for dangerous levels of the toxic metal. Finally, Ivorian authorities are cracking down on illegal mining over fears of pollution, but some young people say the activity remains one of their few sources of income. 

Credit history remains important when applying for online loans in South Africa. Learn how lenders consider income, existing debts and affordability when reviewing applications.

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.

Nairobi to Abuja: The Rendition the Supreme Court Called Unlawful Kanu was seized in Nairobi on June 19, 2021, and produced in an Abuja court ten days later. This part follows the rendition through Geneva, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and the High Court of Kenya. Prof. MarkAnthony Nze Research · Concept · […]

✠  Tagline  ✠ Many family disputes in Imo State reach a priest long before they reach a lawyer. Fr. Nwaimo describes the work of mediation, what it asks of the man in the middle and why he will never tell you whose quarrel it was. Rev. Fr. Dr. Kenneth A. C. Nwaimo, parish priest of Holy Family, […]