Tag: Africa

Few men in power have delved deeply into gender equality on the main stage of the United Nations this month, but the ones who did went there boldly: claiming feminist ...

UNITED NATIONS — In speech after speech, world leaders dwelled on the topic consuming this year’s U.N. General Assembly meeting: Russia’s war in Ukraine. A few, like Nigerian President Muhammadu ...

NEW YORK — Sudan’s ruling military general, who mounted a coup nearly a year ago, said he will not run in future elections for a civilian-led government, but offered no ...

UNITED NATIONS — After three days in which the war in Ukraine consumed world leaders at the United Nations, other conflicts and concerns are beginning to emerge. Some are long-simmering ...

A young president at the U.N. General Assembly touted millennial status symbols like coffee, outdoor adventure and Bitcoin. Another admitted in front of the famous green marble that it was ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Dozens of women holding babies rushed to take their places on wooden benches at a clinic in Zimbabwe while a nurse took a separate group of anxious ...

A 24-year-old man in Uganda‘s central Mubende district showed symptoms and later died. “We want to inform the country that we have an outbreak of Ebola which we confirmed yesterday,” ...

UNITED NATIONS — Warning that the world is in “great peril,” the head of the United Nations says leaders meeting in person for the first time in three years must ...

UNITED NATIONS — Facing a complex set of challenges that try humanity as never before, world leaders convene at the United Nations this week under the shadow of Europe’s first ...

UNITED NATIONS — After two years of virtual and hybrid summits, the world’s leaders will reconvene on the river’s edge in New York this coming week at the U.N. General ...