Carbon 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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📍 London, 5 September 2025 — Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has appointed David Lammy as Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary following the resignation of Angela Rayner amid a ministerial code breach related to her personal tax affairs. Rayner stepped down after admitting she had underpaid stamp duty on a property purchase, citing incorrect […]
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📍 Washington, D.C., 5 September 2025 — The Trump administration is preparing to issue an executive order establishing a new designation for “state sponsors of wrongful detention,” aimed at penalizing countries that illegally detain or take U.S. nationals hostage. The measure, expected to be signed as early as Friday, would empower the U.S. State Department […]
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Geopolitics & Governance Mali Sues Algeria Over Drone Incident Mali has filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Algeria of the “premeditated destruction” of a reconnaissance drone in March. Authorities in Bamako allege the act was intended to sabotage their counterinsurgency efforts against rebel forces. Zambia Jails Former Foreign Minister Joseph […]
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📍 Lagos, 5 September 2025 — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has named Hamza Al-Assad as its inaugural Country Director for Nigeria, marking the Bank’s formal entry into sub-Saharan Africa following Nigeria’s accession as a member state earlier this year. Based in Lagos, Al-Assad will oversee the establishment of EBRD operations in […]
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