Real GDP shrank by 27.6% in the 2023/24 period, following a growth of 2.5% in 2022/2023, largely due to the adverse economic conditions resulting from the conflict in Sudan which damaged oil drainage pipelines.
These are not symbolic gestures—they are structural shifts toward a more coherent, efficient, and African-owned development architecture, Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu, IGAD Executive Secretary.
After a ceasefire between Iran and Israel came to effect and has so far proved to be holding, the United States government now targets entities linked to Iranian oil sales in a bid to weaken the country's military.
South Africa has been grappling with youth unemployment. In 2024, the country was ranked the second country with the highest youth unemployment after Djibouti. The country's presidency now says it has registered some progress in youth unemployment
In 2017, the UN General Assembly requested the UN’s International Court of Justice to comment on Mauritius's decolonisation and the consequences of British rule on the Chagos Archipelago according to international law.
An estimated 2.2 trillion dollars, 3 percent of the world's gross domestic product are lost annually through the production of counterfeit goods.
The United States’ President Donald J Trump has ap...
