The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Thursday said that the UN’s benchmark food and commodity prices index rose sharply on average through 2021, compared with the previous year.

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan, Volker Perthes, on Monday expressed regret over Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s decision to step down.

UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says 55 journalists and media professionals were killed in 2021, noting that impunity against journalists is alarmingly widespread.

At least six villagers were killed on Monday in an attack by al-Shabab militants at a village in Kenya’s coastal county of Lamu, local officials said.

Namibia is currently fighting the 3rd locust outbreak in the Karasburg District, Karas Region in the southern parts of the country.

Huawei has announced that it is joining Eurelectric and its business members. Eurelectric is the federation for the European electricity industry representing the power sector in over 32 European countries and speaking for more than 3,500 companies in power generation, distribution and supply.

North Korea on Thursday said it successfully test-fired a hypersonic missile a day earlier.

Huawei, alongside industry partners have jointly released the Future Network White Paper on Deterministic Networking Technologies.