South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that Western countries have threatened African states that have not aligned themselves against Russia in the war in Ukraine with sanctions. "We are now also witnessing the African continent being dragged into conflicts far beyond our own borders," the South African leader assured...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has admitted that peace negotiations to end Russia's war against Ukraine are impossible in the short term, in an interview published today by the Spanish newspaper El Pais. "Unfortunately, I don't think a peace negotiation is possible at the moment," said Guterres, quoted by the French news agency AFP. António Guterres...
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, yesterday praised the management of Ukraine's economy, with a "fully operational" banking system despite the war, and promised continued support for Kiev. "I saw an economy functioning despite the tremendous challenges. Stores are open, services are being provided and people...
Japan is to convene a G7 summit on February 24, the first anniversary of Russia's war against Ukraine, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported today, quoted by Lusa. This year, the Asian country holds the rotating presidency of the group of the world's seven most developed economies, in which its partners are...
South Africa will hold naval exercises off its east coast with Russian and Chinese warships between February 17 and 26. Operation Mosi (smoke) could raise tensions between the country and its biggest trading partners. South Africa's reluctance to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine...
The United Nations Secretary-General's personal envoy to Mozambique, Mirko Manzoni, said this Friday that "there are no resources" to pay pensions to demobilized guerrillas from the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) party, following the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) process signed in 2019 between the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, and the president of the...
Around 1,400 people who fled armed attacks by rebel groups in the district of Namuno, in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, and have taken refuge in the district of Nipepe, in Niassa, are starving and in need of emergency aid, several local sources told VOA on Monday 21. The group is part of the population that fled...
Mozambique condemns the war between Russia and Ukraine, despite remaining neutral at the united nations voting table and is better positioned to promote dialogue between the two warring countries, according to the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi. Quoted by plataformamedia, Nyusi justified the neutrality strategy in the perspective of creating...
There are two ships from the Black Sea crossing the Portuguese coast and whose destination remains unknown. The Portuguese authorities assure that the vessels are being monitored by the Navy. The monitoring of the two corvettes of the Steregushchiy II Class - "FFG-545 Stoykiy" and "FFG-531 Soobrazitelnyy" is part of a protocol of surveillance observed...
The Secretary General of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) considered today that African states, and other small and poorer in the world, are those who suffer most from the impacts of war in Ukraine. In Zacarias Costa?s perspective, the CPLP countries refrain from condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine to safeguard...