CITES Secretary-General Ivonne Higuero. PHOTO/ National Committee on Ecology of Uzbekistan. By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT [email protected] The 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) continued in the historic city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, with a stirring speech by CITES Secretary-General Ivonne…
A Latam Airlines Airbus A320 sits on the tarmac at El Dorado airport in Bogota on Nov. 28, 2025. Sergio Yate | Afp | Getty Images Thousands of travelers worldwide were stranded after Airbus ordered immediate software fixes for 6,000 A320-series aircraft, a move that affected more than half of the narrow-body fleet and forced…
CME blamed the outage, which halted trading for more than 11 hours, on a cooling failure at a data centre in Chicago. Global futures markets were thrown into chaos for several hours after CME Group, the world’s largest exchange operator, suffered one of its longest outages in years, halting trading across stocks, bonds, commodities and…
Addis Ababa — Ethiopia needs to make the most of the 32nd UN Climate Change Conference (COP32) to play a pivotal player in the global fight against climate change and to transform its rich cultural heritage into a platform for promoting tourism, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said. The Prime Minister gave today directions to the…
André Steyn, format acceleration VP at Massmart. Walmart is betting on its omni-channel retail strategy to attract South African customers, rolling out a Walmart Africa mobile app built on the same global technology stack that powers the US retail giant’s global operations. The US multinational retailer, which operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores…
The minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, Wale Edun, has called for deeper intra-African investment and trade as a strategic response to the sharp decline in global development aid to the continent. Mr. Edun made the call on Thursday at the 5th B2B Agribusiness Matchmaking Event in Abuja with the theme “Catalysing…
Despite official US boycott, participants agreed for shared responsibilities in dealing with the challenges of climate change and reforms in the UN with the objective of equitable global governance The first ever G20 summit on the African continent concluded on Sunday, November 23 on a note of shared responsibilities to deal with global inequality and…
Exceptional women business leaders such as African engineer-turned-entrepreneur Norah Magero are demonstrating how lived experience and ingenuity, backed by United Nations support, can turn promising ideas into successful companies, even in societies where their voices have long been sidelined. As a young mother in a remote part of eastern Kenya, Norah Magero struggled to get…
The global response to HIV is facing its most serious setback in decades, UNAIDS warned on Tuesday, as abrupt funding cuts and a deteriorating human rights environment disrupt prevention and treatment services across dozens of countries. Launching its 2025 World AIDS Day report, Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response, UNAIDS said international assistance has sharply…
Nairobi, Kenya — The world is facing increasing inequalities, crises, and needs, which are undermining the support available to millions of people. Global experts have warned that funding gaps and uneven political will threaten progress in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Reduced budgets, restrictive policies, and rising anti-gender movements are…
