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The President of the European Council, António Costa, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese met on 21 September in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.

Declaration of the Partners for Multilateralism (P4M) summit, 21 September 2026: a joint commitment to multilateralism, international law, peace and prosperity.

The President of the European Council, António Costa, together with the President of Kenya, William Ruto, the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, and the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, will convene the Partners for multilateralism, international law, peace and prosperity summit (P4M summit) on 21 September 2026 in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly High Level Week.

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

Press briefing ahead of the upcoming Competitiveness Council will take place on Tuesday, 22 September 2026 at 15.00.

Die EU hat eine Erklärung zu den vom 18. bis zum 20. September 2026 abgehaltenen Wahlen zur russischen Staatsduma und ihrer Ungültigkeit im Hoheitsgebiet der Ukraine abgegeben.

Die EU hat eine Erklärung zu den sogenannten Präsidentschaftswahlen in der besetzten abtrünnigen Region Südossetien abgegeben, deren Ergebnis sie als null und nichtig betrachtet; zudem hat sie darin ihre unerschütterliche Unterstützung für die Souveränität und territoriale Unversehrtheit Georgiens innerhalb seiner international anerkannten Grenzen bekräftigt.

L’Urssaf a réclamé 2,7 millions d’euros à la plateforme Foodora mercredi 23 septembre, déjà condamnée à 200 000 euros d’amende pour travail dissimulé. Plus de 200 anciens coursiers attendent encore des dommages et intérêts.

Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kurt Okraku has called for positivity and support for the Black Stars as they begin their 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying campaign. Ghana, four-time African champions, face C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire in their opening Group C fixture in Bouak eacute; on Thursday before hosting The Gam .

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Mali : de nouveaux orages annoncés, plusieurs régions placées sous vigilance

Le ciel pourrait rester fortement perturbé dans plusieurs régions du Mali au cours des prochaines heures. Mali-Météo signale des orages accompagnés de pluies et de…

Mali : de nouveaux orages annoncés, plusieurs régions placées sous vigilance
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Mali : de nouveaux orages annoncés, plusieurs régions placées sous vigilance

Le grand Sud algérien passe en alerte. Ce jeudi 24 septembre 2026, l’Office national de la météorologie (ONM) a diffusé un nouveau bulletin météorologique spécial (BMS) classé au niveau […]

L’article Météo Algérie : six wilayas en vigilance orange pour de fortes pluies ce jeudi 24 septembre est apparu en premier sur .

Die CIA warnt: Russland plant Drohnenangriffe auf Europa. Geheimdienstberichten zufolge sollen Gerbera-Drohnen von Schiffen aus gestartet werden. Ihr Ziel: Spanien, Frankreich oder Italien.

Dr. Agnes Kalibata, speaking at the opening ceremony of the Africa Food Systems Forum in 2019. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

By Agnes Kalibata
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 24 2026 (IPS)

I was born in Rwanda, but my family soon became refugees in Uganda during the conflict and unrest on the cusp of independence. My father was a teacher and went to great lengths to make sure I was well educated. My parents were also smallholder farmers, and I saw firsthand the challenges my parents and other refugee families faced.

After I received my doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I returned to a new Rwanda in 2005, managing a World Bank agriculture project with the government. In 2008, I became Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, and over the next six years, I oversaw the country’s transition from food deficit to food security, as Rwanda cut its global hunger index by more than 50 percent. We implemented what we understood to be true: effective deliberate agricultural investment drives poverty down.

Agricultural growth is up to four times more effective at reducing poverty than growth in other sectors, and it underpins food security besides. Yet despite that evidence, Africa’s agriculture sector faces an estimated $200 billion annual financing gap.

Less than a year ago, I joined the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee because I have seen firsthand how GAFSP is a collaborative platform that connects governments, farmers, civil society and leverages the private sector and multiple partners to tackle food insecurity. Among its inaugural investments was a 60 million dollar investment in Rwanda’s Land Husbandry and terracing program which allowed farmers to reclaim degraded land by mobilizing more than 10 times this initial capital, reached hundreds of farmers and contributed to land restoration, food security and poverty reduction all at the same time.

GAFSP’s Business Investment Financing Track (BIFT) has made its second allocation (its first allocation was to the African Development Bank). Announced at the Africa Food Systems Forum “Investing in Africa’s Agri-Food Systems: Nourishing Nations, Growing Jobs, Building Resilience,” Rwanda’s BIFT allocation is a concrete step toward the GAFSP vision that sharing risk deliberately, and cooperatively, rather than leaving it with farmers alone, moves capital that reduces food insecurity. This $6 million allocation has already unlocked $15 million more from IFAD, the Bank of Kigali and Aceli Africa – 2.5 times GAFSP’s own contribution – reaching an expected 215 farmers’ organizations and 35,000 smallholders.

What is most encouraging about this funding is the paradigm shift it represents against the challenging context of reduced Overseas Development Assistance. Capital structured to absorb risk can shift lender considerations to bring private finance into a domain the private sector has avoided, catalyzing transformational change for smallholder borrowers.

The central obstacle isn’t capital or conviction – it’s risk. Agricultural lending is constrained by the risk of accelerating climate shocks and by the practical cost of financing smaller loans. Roughly 90 percent of staple food production in Sub-Saharan Africa depends on rain-fed agriculture, leaving households with no buffer when a season fails. Farmers in low-income countries bear the highest burden of worsening weather conditions, while African countries lose the most GDP to escalating natural disasters, from drought to surging storms. Finally, the loans these farmers need are relatively small, and small loans cost lenders more to appraise and administer.

As Rwanda’s Agriculture Minister, coordinating across ministries to run programs like the Land husbandry program mentioned above alongside the One Cow per Poor Family – a critical source of nutrition for poor families taught me that risk-sharing across government agencies, communities and financiers is what makes ambitious programs work.

It is now a question of scale. What worked for smallholders in Rwanda can work for millions more, if development finance institutions and private lenders treat risk-sharing as standard practice. I have spent my career watching farmers do more with less. Give them the finance they’ve earned, and there is no question they will transform the food system to be more efficient, resilient and a stronger driver of prosperity at scale.

IPS UN Bureau

 

 

 

 

En République démocratique du Congo (RDC), le camp du pouvoir a organisé plusieurs marches à travers le pays, le 22 septembre. Le mot d’ordre était notamment de soutenir le projet de modification de la Constitution. La parti présidentiel et ses alliés revendiquent un succès après cette mobilisation. Du côté de l’opposition, on dénonce un « deux poids, deux mesures » après un rassemblement qu’elle avait organisé à Kinshasa le 15 septembre et qui avait été marqué par des violences.

Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kurt Okraku says no player has refused to represent the Black Stars since he took office, despite a number of withdrawals ahead of Ghana rsquo;s 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers.

In Meltingen kam es am Mittwochnachmittag zu einer Kollision zwischen einem Auto und einem Velo. Dabei wurde der Velofahrer schwer verletzt. Der Unfallhergang wird durch die Polizei abgeklärt.

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ONU 2026 : le Mali prépare sa prise de parole à New York

Le Mali aura rendez-vous avec la tribune des Nations unies le 28 septembre 2026. Pour cette 81ᵉ session de l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU, c’est le…

ONU 2026 : le Mali prépare sa prise de parole à New York
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ONU 2026 : le Mali prépare sa prise de parole à New York

Payerne oder Thurgau? Der «MXGP Switzerland» soll am 3. Oktober 2027 die Motocross-WM abschliessen. Doch es gibt noch keinen fixen Veranstalter und viele offenen Fragen. Aber die Entscheidung soll schon in den nächsten Wochen fallen.

Weija-Gbawe MP Jerry Ahmed Shaib has defended Parliamentarians rsquo; right to comment on the state of Ghanaian football, describing Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kurt Okraku rsquo;s response to criticism from his colleague Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah as inappropriate.

Le Front populaire de libération du Tigré et ses alliés ont ciblé des positions contrôlées par l’armée fédérale éthiopienne dans les régions du Nord du pays. L’Union africaine et l’Union européenne ont appelé mercredi « à la désescalade immédiate ».