Poultry Farmers Urge Europe to Ease Trade Restrictions

VOA

Cameroon's poultry farmers and sellers are calling on authorities at home and in Europe to loosen trade restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic and avian influenza,… Read more »

Icelandic Fishing Company Samherji in Hot Water Over Alleged Tax-Dodging

Namibian

Icelandic fishing company Samherji, which is at the centre of the Fishrot corruption investigations, is suspected of using the Faroe Islands to avoid paying employee income tax in… Read more »

UK HIV Funding Tap Closes - Big and 'Shameful' Blow to Africa [analysis]

Daily Maverick

The UK's major funding cuts to UNAids will hit home hard in Africa and South Africa where the fight to beat HIV/Aids is far from over. Read more »

Refugee and Migrant Deaths Growing in Central Mediterranean

VOA

U.N. agencies are reporting a sharp rise in deaths across the Central Mediterranean among refugees and migrants fleeing conflict, persecution and economic hardship in their home… Read more »

Zuma Escapes UK Anti-Corruption Sanctions but Stench Follows Him

East African

When the UK Foreign Office announced, last week, sanctions imposed on the Gupta brothers under the new Global Anti-Corruption regime; there were questions on just how more of their… Read more »

G7, EU Call Presence of Foreign Forces in Tigray 'Deeply Disturbing and Destabilizing

Addis Standard

The Foreign and Development Ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) and the High Representative of the European Union called "the presence of foreign forces in Tigray is deeply… Read more »

How Seriously Is Germany Taking Its Colonial History?

DW

Genocide, looted art, stolen skulls: Calls for Germany to acknowledge its colonial past have grown louder. Four years ago, the German government promised to reexamine the issue,… Read more »

Denmark's Plans to Send Asylum-Seekers to Rwanda 'Unconscionable' - Amnesty International [press release]

AI London

Responding to the news that Danish authorities have signed an agreement with the Rwandan government to enhance cooperation on migration and asylum, potentially to then send… Read more »

Ambassador Katsande Pledges Govt Support for UK-Based Zimbabwe Investors

New Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's ambassador to the United Kingdom has committed to expeditiously assist all potential investors intending to invest capital in the recovering southern African nation's… Read more »

Climate Finance Hopes for Poor Nations Shift to G7 Summit As Merkel Disappoints

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Rich governments are being urged to deliver on an unmet pledge of funding to help developing countries tackle climate change at June's G7 summit and raise it after 2025 Read more »

SA, UK to Continue Healthcare Collaboration

SAnews.gov.za

South Africa and the United Kingdom (UK) have committed to continue working together towards strengthening the global international health system. Read more »

Silesia Success Bodes Well for Future of Kenyan Sprinters

Nation

Compared to the Kenyan team which competed at the 2019 World Relay Championships in Yokohama, Japan, those who have just arrived from this year's edition in Silesia, Poland had to… Read more »

Rising Gambian Musician, Making Waves in Germany

The Point

Laminator, German based Gambian Reggae danchall artiste wasted no time in putting The Gambia in the international music scene by making waves in Germany and the rest of the world. Read more »

Outrage Over Call to Shelve Genocide Case Against French Military

RFI

Survivors and human rights groups have criticised a recommendation by prosecutors in France to drop a 15-year case accusing senior French military officials of complicity in the… Read more »

Angola and Netherlands Discuss Cooperation

ANGOP

The Permanent Representative of Angola to the United Nations Agencies in Rome, Maria de Fátima Jardim, Wednesday received her counterpart from the Kingdom of the… Read more »