ASHENEWS reports that the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, has approved the deployment of 15 Long-term Election Observers (LTOs) to monitor key stages in the electoral process leading up to the country’s general elections on 10th October 2023.
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The 18th World Water Congress kicked off in Beijing on Monday, with the five-day event themed “Water for All: Harmony between Humans and Nature.”
The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened two pips to 7.2148 against the dollar on Monday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.
Russia is considering resuming production of T-80 tanks, state-owned television channel Zvezda, which is operated by the Defence Ministry, reported on Monday.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that he would invite his Russian and Chinese counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, respectively, to the next G20 summit, which will take place in Brazil in 2024.
India formally handed over the G20 presidency to Brazil at the closing ceremony of the annual summit of the grouping, that was held in New Delhi this weekend.
Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin American’s trend of widening abortion access.
Mexico is on course to see its first female president as both the ruling coalition and the opposition have nominated women as candidates for the 2024 election.
The UK Home Office has said it will declare Russian mercenary group Wagner a terrorist organisation.
The UN Refugee agency (UNHCR) and 64 humanitarian and national civil society organisations have appealed for $1billion to provide essential aid and protection for the people in Sudan.