Day: September 24, 2022

Pres. Weah, UNSG Guterres Call for Fairer Approach to Solving Global Challenges

IPNEWS-Monrovia: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pledged the body’s continued support to Liberia as the country prepares for Presidential and Legislative elections next year. During a meeting with President George Weah on Thursday, September 22, 2022 on the sidelines of the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the UN boss spoke of the lingering effects …

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Equatorial Guinea President, Obiang 80yrs to Run Again to Extend 43-Year Rule

–As Paul Biya, Cameroon’s 89-Year-Old President, Marks 40 Years in Power on November 6 DAKAR (Reuters) – The world’s longest-standing leader, President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, will run for office again in November elections, his party announced on Friday, likely extending a 43-year tenure that began when he snatched power in a 1979 coup. …

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West African Bloc Sanctions Guinea, Condemns Mali for Detaining Ivorian Troops

CONAKRY, (Reuters) – West Africa’s main political and economic bloc imposed more sanctions on Guinea’s ruling junta on Thursday for failing to establish a new schedule for a transition to democracy, the bloc said in a press release. In an extraordinary summit held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, …

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