Gaza aid deliveries still face Israeli roadblocks a week into ceasefire | Gaza News

Gaza aid deliveries still face Israeli roadblocks a week into ceasefire | Gaza News

A week into the ceasefire, Israel has continued to seal Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt despite repeated international calls to allow in large-scale aid deliveries. Meanwhile, Israeli attacks killed and wounded several Palestinians in northern Gaza. For several days, the United Nations has warned that there has been little progress in aid deliveries into Gaza…

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Africa Skills Week 2025 Officially Opens At AU Headquarters With a Call to Build a Skilled, Inclusive, and Innovative Africa

Africa Skills Week 2025 Officially Opens At AU Headquarters With a Call to Build a Skilled, Inclusive, and Innovative Africa

The Second Edition of Africa Skills Week (ASW 2025) officially opened today at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, marking a major milestone in Africa’s collective effort to transform its human capital landscape and accelerate industrialization. With Africa’s young and rapidly growing population, the event underscores the continent’s urgent need to bridge the…

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Africa Skills Week 2025 Officially Opens At AU Headquarters With a Call to Build a Skilled, Inclusive, and Innovative Africa

Africa: ‘House of Diplomacy and Dialogue’ – UN Wraps Up High-Level Week With Calls for Peace, Climate Action and Reform

The United Nations remains “the house of diplomacy and dialogue” in a divided world, General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock said as she closed the 80th session’s general debate, urging nations to convert the week’s momentum into concrete action on peace, climate change and institutional reform. Over six days, 189 Member States spoke from the iconic…

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Hurricane Humberto likely to bring dangerous surf to most of East Coast this week. Maps show its forecast path.

Hurricane Humberto likely to bring dangerous surf to most of East Coast this week. Maps show its forecast path.

Hurricane Humberto is likely to bring dangerous surf to most of the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda this week, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said, adding that tropical storm conditions are possible in Bermuda on Tuesday. The swells will likely cause “life-threatening surf and rip current conditions,” the center warned. Humberto rapidly strengthened over the…

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Africa Skills Week 2025 Officially Opens At AU Headquarters With a Call to Build a Skilled, Inclusive, and Innovative Africa

Africa: Guterres Pushes Leaders to ‘Turn the Tide’ On Global Crises During High-Stakes UNGA Week

Secretary-General António Guterres has issued a stark call to world leaders on the eve of the United Nations General Assembly’s high-level week, warning that a “global crisis” of war, climate change, inequality and technological risk demands urgent, coordinated action. “We are facing a global crisis. Conflicts are multiplying in the context in which geopolitical divides…

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Africa Skills Week 2025 Officially Opens At AU Headquarters With a Call to Build a Skilled, Inclusive, and Innovative Africa

Africa: Ahead of High-Stakes General Assembly Week, Guterres Urges World Leaders to ‘Get Serious – and Deliver’

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged world leaders to “get serious – and deliver” as they begin arriving in New York for the high-level week of the 80th General Assembly. Speaking at a press conference at the UN Headquarters on Tuesday in New York, he warned that global divisions, conflicts and crises have left the…

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Boat accident in Congo kills more than 100 people in second deadly capsizing this week

Boat accident in Congo kills more than 100 people in second deadly capsizing this week

Kinshasa, Congo — Two separate boat accidents this week in northwestern Congo killed at least 193 people and left scores missing, authorities and state media reported Friday. The accidents happened on Wednesday and Thursday, about 150 kilometers apart in the Equateur province. One boat with nearly 500 passengers caught fire and capsized Thursday evening along…

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