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US President Joe Biden has said he would be ready to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin “if in fact there is an interest in him deciding that he’s looking for a way to end the war”. Addressing reporters alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, he stressed Mr Putin had not yet done …

A war in far-away Ukraine has worsened Zimbabwe’s decades old multi-layered economic crisis with the southern African country’s agriculture industry being the hardest hit amid heightened food insecurity and rising cost of living, United Nations agencies have warned. In a report titled: Impact of the Ukraine Crisis in Zimbabwe that …

Zambia is seeking answers from Russia over how a government-sponsored nuclear engineering student got killed on the front line in Ukraine. The 23-year-old Lemekhani Nyirenda, was student at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, but in 2020 he was sentenced to nine years in prison for an unspecified offence. Zambia’s Foreign …

Ukraine plans to establish an embassy in Ghana in future as part of efforts to expand its presence in Africa. This was disclosed by Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba when he held talks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ghana, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, in …

Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister has expressed his country’s gratitude to Ghana for standing by them amid the Russian invasion that started in February this year. Kuleba arrived in Accra on Wednesday, October 6 and departed on the 7th, with Ghana being the third stop of his African …

Ukraine’s government needs to agree to a ceasefire and return to the negotiating table, says Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We are ready for this,” Putin said as he declared the parts of Ukraine occupied by Moscow’s forces to be part of Russia. Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions are to …

The Medical and Dental Council of Ghana has said that it will no longer recognise degree certificates issued by Medical and Dental Schools from Ukraine, as some schools have resorted to studying online. According to a citinewsroom report, the council said that the training of these students online is not …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on the global economy,, more especially on African countries. The president holds that the war which started in February 2022 aggravated an already precarious situation for African economies that were starting to recover from the effects of …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has emerged with “no serious injuries” from a car collision in Kyiv on Wednesday. According to a statement from the president’s press secretary, “a car collided with the car of the President of Ukraine and escort vehicles.” Medics accompanying Zelensky gave emergency aid to the car’s …

Pope Francis, has defended himself against criticism that his statements on the war in Ukraine are political messages. At the same time, however, the Vatican for the first time directly named Russia as the initiator of the war, according to a statement from the Holy See on Tuesday. “As for …