The contest to succeed António Guterres will influence how the United Nations responds to war, debt, climate shocks, human-rights abuses and shrinking development assistance.

New York is expanding legal protections for unaccompanied immigrant children as the city and state push back against expanding federal immigration enforcement. Governor Kathy Hochul announced $7.25 million in state funding for legal services, while Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Attorney General Letitia James outlined broader efforts to support immigrant communities amid an intensifying dispute with Washington.

NYC (GAB) — New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani invoked Nelson Mandela’s resistance to apartheid and support for Palestinian freedom as he urged political leaders and the public to extend solidarity to people confronting injustice today, even when doing so carries political or personal costs. Delivering a lecture at the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Global Leadership Forum in New York City, Mamdani argued that Mandela’s legacy should not be confined to museums, commemorati

The Ebola outbreak unfolding across Central Africa is accelerating faster than health officials initially feared, with Uganda confirming imported cases and the World Health Organization warning that the true scale of infections remains uncertain. Speaking before delegates at the World Health Assembly in Geneva on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the outbreak has reached more than 500 suspected infections and roughly 130 suspected deaths — f

Today, President Yoweri Museveni, 81, was sworn in for a seventh term in office, extending a rule that began in 1986 and now stretches toward four decades, cementing his place among Africa’s longest-serving leaders. The inauguration ceremony in Kampala, attended by regional leaders, military officials, diplomats, and ruling party supporters, featured elaborate state pageantry, military displays, and renewed promises of stability and economic transformation under Museveni’s le

At the annual convention of the National Action Network, led by Rev. Al Sharpton, former Vice President Kamala Harris delivered what was at once a domestic political speech and an early signal of a potential presidential campaign, while quietly reframing Africa as a measure of America’s global standing. Pressed directly on stage about her political future, Vice President Kamala Harris offered her clearest indication yet that she may seek the presidency again. “I might. I’m th

Courtesy Image On December 20, 2025, only weeks after a new peace agreement, the Washington Accords, between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda was signed, the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio described the deal as something new: a baseline that could be enforced. For the first time, the United States positioned itself as the central broker of a formal peace framework between the two countries, signaling a deeper diplomatic and strategic investment in t

World leaders, ministers, and industry officials from more than 50 countries are gathered in Washington today for the inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial , aimed at strengthening global supply chains for materials essential to modern technology, clean energy, and national defense, U.S. officials said. The summit, hosted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the U.S. State Department, comes amid rising concerns over dependency on a small number of producers, particularly