Asia

By: Minister Chang Tzi-chin Environmental Protection Administration Republic of China (Taiwan) As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the world, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere keep setting record highs. The Working Group I Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

By:Taiwan Focus A Taiwan-Somaliland trade fair aimed at strengthening business links and market opportunities across Africa will be held Nov. 4, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced Tuesday. Isaac Chiu (邱陳煜), the deputy head of MOFA's Department of International Cooperation and Economic Affairs, said that...

  Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on the morning of October 10 attended the ROC's 110th Double Tenth National Day Celebration in the plaza fronting the Presidential Office Building, and delivered an address entitled "Forging a Stronger Consensus: Standing United to Protect Taiwan." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUSVwOT7iQw A translation of the...

By:WAM The UAE sent a plane carrying urgent medical and food aid to Afghanistan on Friday, as part of its contribution to providing the basic and necessary needs of thousands of Afghan families, especially the most vulnerable groups such as women, children and the elderly,...

By: The Wall Street Journal Zack Vanmeter, a private equity investor in Naples, Florida, called the Somaliland government last week asking if he would accept thousands of Afghan refugees. “He suddenly called me,” said Bashir Goth, Washington’s representative for the Somaliland. Two days later, on August 25,...

By AFP - Agence France Presse Somaliland has agreed "(in) principle" to take in refugees from Afghanistan, a foreign ministry official said Friday, as tens of thousands of people desperately flee the war-torn nation following a Taliban takeover earlier this month. The militants have repeatedly promised...

By:BBC AFRICA Rwanda will host dozens of schoolgirls being relocated from Afghanistan following the takeover of their country by Taliban militants. Shabana Basij-Rasikh, the founder of a privately run School of Leadership, Afghanistan (Sola), said on Tuesday that about 250 students, staff and family members were...

Taliban says it will allow Afghan women to work and study, assures media workers they will be protected The Taliban is promising to protect women’s rights and press freedom in the group’s first news conference following its stunning takeover of Afghanistan as the group’s co-founder...

By:Aljazeera President Ashraf Ghani has left Afghanistan for Tajikistan as Taliban closes in on Kabul, according to the country’s top peace negotiator Abdullah Abdullah. “The former Afghan president has left the nation,” Abdullah, the head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, said in a video...

By:Qatar news agency the Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani sent a written message to President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo, pertaining to the bilateral relations and ways of enhancing and promoting them, in addition to the recent political...