United Arab Emirates: His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed meets a number of foreign ministers in New York

Download logo H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, met separately with a number of foreign ministers of countries participating in the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed met with Dr. Faisal Mekdad, Minister of Foreign Affairs and […]

African Union (AU) officials cheer recovering African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) soldiers in Nairobi hospitals

High-level officials from the African Union Headquarters and the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), have visited injured soldiers from the mission at various hospitals in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, to check on their wellbeing and welfare. As ATMIS supports the Somali National Army (SNA) and security forces in the fight against terrorism, some soldiers […]

United Arab Emirates: Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan meets Kenyan President on sidelines of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 77

Download logo Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of State, met William Samoei Ruto, President of the Republic of Kenya, on the sidelines of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Sheikh Shakhboot conveyed to Ruto the greetings of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed […]

High-Level Meeting on the Sahel: The United Nations, the African Union, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the G5 Sahel formally launch the Independent Panel on Security and Development

The independent panel was formally announced on Saturday in New York on the margins of the General Assembly’s annual debate during a High-Level Event on the Sahel, held under the auspices of the United Nations, the African Union (AU) Commission, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Group of Five for the […]

World Food Programme (WFP) and the government of Cabo Verde join forces to support school children amidst the socio-economic crisis driven by COVID-19 and the conflict in Ukraine

Download logo A week after schools reopened in Cabo Verde, the Government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Regional Integration, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), today, signed an agreement to meet the food and nutrition needs of nearly 90,000 school children through the national school feeding programme. “The agreement now signed reflects […]

United Arab Emirates (UAE) delegation attends fifth day of meetings on sidelines of 77th Session of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)

Download logo The UAE delegation attended the fifth day of high-level meetings on the sidelines of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Today, Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar, Minister of State, participated in a ministerial-level meeting organised by the United States with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Yemen. […]

Maldives and Guinea-Bissau establish diplomatic relations

Download logo The Republic of Maldives and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau have formally established diplomatic relations today.   The Joint Communiqué formalizing diplomatic relations between the two countries was signed on behalf of the Government of Maldives by His Excellency Abdulla Shahid, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Maldives and on behalf of […]

Uganda: Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) responds to Ebola outbreak

Download logo Immediately after the September 20th declaration of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda in the country’s central Mubende district,the Ministry of Health has asked Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders to support its efforts in the fight against the spread of the disease. On Wednesday 21 September, an MSF team of six persons, consisting mainly […]

Senegal: African Development Bank Provides €29 Million for Development of Road Networks 6 Communes

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a €28.88 loan for improvements to the road and transport network linking six Senegalese municipalities.  The loan was approved on 20 September 2022. The financing will be sourced from savings from the Senegal Cities Modernisation Programme (https://bit.ly/3UJA5xg). The funds will support the […]

Bahrain: Minister of Foreign Affairs meets Minister of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Madagascar

Download logo The Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, met the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Madagascar, H.E. Richard Randriamandrato, on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UNGA. They reviewed the joint bilateral cooperation in various fields, in addition to discussing a number of regional […]