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Last Updated: July 30, 2023, 12:46 ISTNiger Army spokesman Colonel Major Amadou Adramane speaks during an appearance on national television, after President Mohamed Bazoum was held in the presidential palace, in Niamey, Niger, July 26,…

Last Updated: June 01, 2023, 02:42 ISTUganda's President Yoweri Museveni speaks during a Reuters interview at his farm in Kisozi settlement of Gomba district, in the Central Region of Uganda, January 16, 2022. (Reuters File Photo)Uganda's…

A United Nations initiative aimed at eliminating gender-based violence is asking Canada to put up cash to help stem a backsliding in women’s rights, even though the Liberals are cutting back on foreign aid. “Women’s rights and…

International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan has announced $71 million in humanitarian aid for Sudan and two neighbouring countries that are dealing with a large number of refugees in the wake of a violent crisis. “The challenges…

Global Affairs Canada has no sense of whether development aid meant to help women and girls abroad is actually advancing gender equity, according to an audit tabled in Parliament on Monday morning. “It was highly problematic that…

Canada’s auditor general says the modernization of Parliament’s Centre Block is within budget so far, but the federal government needs to do a better job at making up their minds before major construction begins. Karen Hogan warns in…

The Taliban also appear to be easing their stance on women’s rights, with a promise to end restrictions next year on teenage girls trying to access schools. The Taliban administration is working to boost exports to save the Afghan economy…

Over a week after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, its residents are reeling from a severe shortage of cash as banks remain shuttered and remittances from abroad dry up. ATMs across the city are empty and money…

Over a week after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, its residents are reeling from a severe shortage of cash as banks remain shuttered and remittances from abroad dry up. ATMs across the city are empty and money…

As the Taliban fighters took the capital city of Kabul on Sunday in a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, the country, one of the world’s poorest, now faces a downward spiraling economy. In just ten days, the Taliban seized…