MOGADISHU – Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city’s cacophony is now one of construction, not destruction. The east African nation saw civil war in the 1990s mutate in the 2000s into an Islamist insurgency that still threatens much of...

ACCRA – Ghana has received official confirmation from the United States that Washington has fully removed the 15% tariff imposed on the West African nation’s cocoa and agricultural exports, its foreign minister announced Monday. The move comes at a sensitive moment in Ghana-US relations. Accra recently accepted dozens of deportees from the United States, exclusively West Africans, on what the...

GENEVA – The UN on Monday warned that generative AI could become “a modern-day Frankenstein’s monster,” with human rights the first casualty, as powerful tech giants unleash the technology on the world. UN rights chief Volker Turk said generative AI had “tremendous promise” but told the world body’s business and human rights forum that its “exploitation for purely political or...

LUANDA – European and African leaders gathered in Angola yesterday for a summit to deepen economic and security ties, with emergency talks on Ukraine also on the cards. France’s Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Friedrich Merz and Kenya’s William Ruto are among dozens of European Union and African leaders expected in Luanda amid a US-European rift over a Washington plan to end...