Pupils pose at a window of their school in Douala, western Cameroon, on Jan 13, 2022. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his special envoy for global education, Gordon Brown, on Saturday launched a multi-billion-dollar International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd). With the first projects expected in 2023, IFFEd […]
Pupils pose at a window of their school in Douala, western Cameroon, on Jan 13, 2022. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his special envoy for global education, Gordon Brown, on Saturday launched a multi-billion-dollar International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd). With the first projects expected in 2023, IFFEd […]
Senegal's President Macky Sall (right) speaks during a press conference after the closing session of the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Tunisia's capital Tunis on Aug 28, 2022. (FETHI BELAID / AFP) DAKAR – Senegalese President Macky Sall appointed a new prime minister on Saturday, a position he abolished in 2019 […]
In this March 30, 2021 photo, an Egyptian navy craft patrols as ships resume navigation in the Suez Canal, a day after a cargo vessel was dislodged from its banks. (Tarek WAJEH / AFP) CAIRO – The Suez Canal's transit tolls will increase by 15 percent for all types of vessels and 10 percent for […]
In this file photo taken on Jan 14, 2022, a girl receives the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, at the Clinicas hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP) RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian national health regulator Anvisa has approved the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech for children aged […]
Panoramic view of the city of Caracas, on Sept 12, 2022. (YURI CORTEZ / AFP) CARACAS – Venezuela "strongly" rejected a recent White House memorandum that listed it as one of the countries involved in drug production or trafficking, the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday. The memorandum issued on Thursday accuses more […]
