📍 Lagos, 6 September 2025 — Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery has exported its first shipment of petrol to the United States, marking a historic milestone for Africa’s largest oil processing facility. The consignment, totaling approximately 300,000 barrels of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), departed from the refinery’s Lekki jetty on 26 August aboard the vessel Gemini […]
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“When women are missing, democracy is incomplete,” said Kirsi Madi, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director with the UN gender equality agency, UN Women, responding to the latest analysis. Ms. Madi emphasised that the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the media needs to be recognised as a key issue, so that democratic standards are not eroded for future generations. […]
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📍 New York, 5 September 2025 — BlackRock and Apollo Global Management have completed a series of strategic mergers and acquisitions, absorbing a combined $57 billion in assets under management. The transactions mark a significant consolidation in the global investment landscape, reinforcing both firms’ positions in private markets and alternative asset strategies. BlackRock’s latest moves […]
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📍 South Boston, Virginia, 5 September 2025 — Hitachi Energy, a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., has unveiled a landmark $1 billion investment to expand production of critical electrical grid components across the United States. The initiative includes $457 million dedicated to building a large power transformer facility in South Boston, Virginia—the largest of its kind […]
Continue ReadingCarbon pricing – putting a price on pollution – is one of the most effective tools to tackle climate change. It encourages cleaner choices, drives innovation and generates revenues that are reinvested in people and communities to support the clean transition. But it is often misunderstood. The EU uses carbon markets to put a price […]
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📍 Dublin, 5 September 2025 — Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration Jim O’Callaghan has announced €1.75 million in funding to enhance services for children, young people, and families residing in international protection accommodation across Ireland. The funding will be delivered through the Children and Young People’s Services Committees (CYPSC), a nationwide network that […]
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“They burned everything,” said one witness of a shelling attack in the Zamzam displacement camp in war-torn Darfur. “They claimed they only wanted to fight soldiers, but they punished the whole community.” The war crimes and human rights violations perpetrated by all parties to the conflict between the military government and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) […]
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The dramatic liquidity crisis currently impacting the UN and its global partners has already prevented a high-level human rights probe into the DRC emergency created in February from getting underway. According to testimonies gathered by OHCHR investigators into widespread violence in DRC’s North and South Kivu since January, members of the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel paramilitary group […]
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“Air quality respects no boundaries,” said Lorenzo Labrador, Scientific Officer at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). “The smoke and the pollution that issues from the wildfires in this record-breaking season in the Iberian Peninsula has been detected over Western Europe already [and]…can travel basically throughout the rest of the European continent.” Presenting the latest WMO Air […]
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📍 Brussels, 5 September 2025 — The European Commission has imposed a €2.95 billion antitrust fine on Google for abusing its dominant position in the digital advertising technology sector. The penalty marks the fourth major EU sanction against the tech giant in the past decade. The Commission found that Google systematically favored its own ad […]
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