Statement UN Palestinian Rights Committee Bureau Calls for Urgent Action to End Gaza Famine New York, 27 August 2025 – A new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis officially confirmed famine in Gaza Governorate, with more than half a million people facing starvation, destitution, and preventable death. “The Gaza Famine”, as the UN Relief Chief called it, is only getting worse. If nothing is done to end the Israeli blockade and to ensure immediate and unfettered humanitarian aid to the Palestinian civilian population, famine is projected to spread to Deir al‑Balah and Khan Younis in…
Day: August 27, 2025
Mahama courts Singapore investors, touts 24-hour economy as gateway to $3.4 trillion AfCFTA market
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday used the opening of the 8th Africa–Singapore Business Forum to pitch Ghana as a “reliable gateway” to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), calling Africa “investable” and urging deeper South–South partnerships amid a more fragmented global economy. “We are here to learn, to partner, and to deliver,” President Mahama said at his first engagement on a three-day state visit to Singapore. “Africa is investable, and Ghana is your reliable gateway to the continent.” Framing Africa and Asia as the world’s “two youngest, fastest‑urbanising…