Africa/International

Cases of domestic violence against women rose in Germany in 2023, according to a new analysis by the country's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) released on Tuesday.

Dr Mohamed ibn Chambas, the African Union (AU) High Representative for Silencing the Guns and the Chairman of the AU High-Level Panel on Sudan, has urged African countries to scale-up efforts towards a common currency. 

Arms deliveries to Ukraine led to a record for German arms exports in 2023. This could be broken this year.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz makes a government statement in the plenary session of the Bundestag. Topics include the end of the traffic light coalition and the upcoming Bundestag elections.

Around 3.2 million elderly Germans aged 65 and over are at risk of poverty, according to data from the EU statistics agency Eurostat, requested by the newly formed Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW).

As world leaders gathered at COP29, amid a flurry of ambitious pledges and somber warnings, one message stood out in a moment that captured the urgency felt by many: “The cost of inaction is far greater than the investment required to build…

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says pneumonia is the biggest infectious killer of children worldwide which kills more children than any other infectious disease.

A meeting of the Technical Working Group on the Regional Special Economic Zone (RSEZ) Regulation to consider the document for the creation of a community-wide legal, regulatory and institutional framework that will guide the creation of…

Gaborone last Friday played host to the inauguration of President Duma Boko, Botswana’s newly-minted leader.

The 20th African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) in Johannesburg, South Africa, recently celebrated the work of Anas Aremeyaw Anas and Gabriel Bourdon-Fattal for their pivotal role in establishing a secure sanctuary for…