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14: 47 GMT: Local media in Ghana has reported that the Danish Ambassador to Ghana, Tove Degnbol, has disclosed that many Danish investors are refusing to do business in the West African nation because of corruption.
The diplomat said officials of government agencies demand bribe in order to facilitate investments. The BFT in Accra said Tove Degnbol made this public at a business meeting with selected entities with Danish ties.
The Ambassador lamented how the development is affecting Danish companies. She said
“Danish companies are reporting that they often find it difficult to do business in Ghana because they are confronted with requests for illegal payment of services or ‘facilitation money’. At the Embassy, we are proud when companies tell us that they would rather lose an order than become involved in the endless game of paying and being required to pay even more”
13: 30 GMT: A train returning from a rehabilitation work in Obala in Cameroon crushed pedestrians at Elig Edzoa killing three and injuring 2 people, the CAMRAIL said.
Residents in the area said the accident occurred at about 8pm Cameroon time as some men were accompanying their women for the “part two” of the feast.
According to CAMRAIL, a rescue team that arrived at the scene of the incident found one body on the railway. The country train service said one other corps was recovered by family before the arrival of the rescue team adding that one person that was injured died in the hospital.
“A total of three deaths, including two bodies deposited in the morgue of the Yaounde Central Hospital,” CAMRAIL said.
13: 00 GMT: Ghana’s authorities are battling with an agitation from a group within the country’s Volta region previously the British Togoland to split from the country.
Aggrieved residents of this territory claim the processes that led to their merger with the then Gold Coast now Ghana were flawed. They also claim that the Volta region lacked needed development hence the need to be an independent country on its own.
Ghana’s Volta region previously known as the British Togoland is a historical landscape. In 1922, British Togoland, now Ghana, was formally placed under British rule while French Togoland, now Togo was placed under French rule. There has been no major dispute to this arrangement until now when a group called Homeland Study Group Foundation called for split.
11: 20 GMT: Officials in The Gambia have announced that they have discovered the body of the opposition leader Solo Sandeng in Tanji.
Sandeng was reported to have died in custody after his arrest by the former Yahya Jammeh government. His body will now be sent for forensic investigations at a hospital in the capital Banjul.
A Police spokesman Foday Conta told the media that Mr. Sandeng’s body was discovered with the help of testimonies given by officials who worked under the national intelligence agency of The Gambia.
10: 45 GMT: Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have said that complaints against the presumed perpetrators of sexual violence are on the increase. Over 3000 complaints were received by civilian and military jurisdictions in 2016, versus 2414 complaints in 2015.
10: 05 GMT: News24 in South Africa is reporting that the country’s Rail Agency board has been dissolved over corruption claims.
News24 said the Transport Minister Dipuo Peters on Wednesday dissolved the board of the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa).
10: 00 GMT: Controversial Nollywood star, Tonto Dikeh, has released evidence of domestic abuse in a new video.
In the video, which is reminiscent of Tiwa Savage’s infamous interview, Tonto also accused actress, Rosaline Meurer, of sleeping with her estranged husband, Olakunle Churchill.
Meurer could not be immediately reached. Tonto said she endured domestic violence from her estranged husband in Nigeria and Ghana. She said the Nigerian Embassy in Ghana have photo evidence of battery.
09: 00 GMT: The Government of United State has told Nigerians that they are free to travel to the country, saying there is no reason for Nigerians with valid visas to postpone or cancel their travel to the United States.
The Leadership in Abuja reported that a statement from the US government clarified that Nigeria is not named in the Executive Order on Immigration issued on March 6, 2017.
The clarification from the US follows comments from the special adviser to the president on foreign affairs, Abike Dabiri-Erewa who said Nigerians “without any compelling or essential reasons” should consider delaying travelling to the US, as her office has received a few cases of Nigerians with valid multiple-entry US visas being denied entry and sent back to Nigeria.
08: 51 GMT: Zimbabwe FA chairman Phillip Chiyangwa has threatened legal action against CAF’s president and secretary general.
Chiyangwa is unhappy that a birthday party he hosted in Harare on 23 February has become a matter to be discussed by Caf’s Executive Committee next week. Chiyangwa told BBC Sport.
“They shouldn’t dare me with silly innuendos – making nefarious allegations, My legal team is preparing to go into battle against President Issa Hayatou and Secretary General Hicham El Amrani.”
08: 10 GMT: Barcelona made Champions League history by becoming the first team to overturn a first-leg 4-0 deficit as they knocked out Paris St-Germain to reach the quarter-finals for the 10th successive season.
The Spanish champions were 5-3 down on aggregate in the 88th minute, but scored three goals in the final seven minutes in one of the greatest European ties of all time.
There were reactions on social media.
You call it “football team”, we call it “Barça”. You call it “miracle”, we call it “normal” #ForçaBarça pic.twitter.com/vaa30IgnMd
— Arda Turan (@ArdaTuran) March 8, 2017
Wow what an unbelievable game! ? Chapeau Barca, not bad! ?? Chin up PSG! #UCL #FCBPSG @ChampionsLeague
— Franck Ribéry (@FranckRibery) March 8, 2017
The morning after the Barca madness. Say hello to this YouTube star. Neymar was amazing in that second half pic.twitter.com/hoTKeIpddd
— Michael Oti Adjei (@OtiAdjei) March 9, 2017
Still cannot believe what Barca did last night.No matter how bad PSG were the Blaugrana still needed to finish.
— Godfred A.Boafo (@eastsportsman) March 9, 2017
The goal that won it – Barca’s Sergi Roberto scores to complete the greatest comeback in European football history
➡https://t.co/c5iFXnb0xn pic.twitter.com/SQeOwkLAMQ— BBC Radio 5 live (@bbc5live) March 9, 2017
“Barca didn’t score an away goal, PSG just need to score at Camp Nou and its over” pic.twitter.com/jfi4S5flgg
— Stephen. (@stephenoflyf) March 9, 2017
07: 30 GMT: Somali presidential hopeful, Fadumo Dayib has signaled her resolve to remain in politics despite the challenges that come with it because of her gender.
The first woman to run for president in Somalia told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at a conference in London.
“The more I get threats, the more I get insults … the more I’m convinced that I’m doing the right thing,”
Dayib was born in a refugee camp in Kenya, and her mother lost 11 of her siblings – all to preventable diseases. Her family and millions of others were forced back to Somalia, before they fled civil war to Finland.
She learnt to read and write only as a teenager and now boasts degrees from Harvard University and the University of Helsinki.
07: 20 GMT: The government of Kenya has issued an order to sack doctors who continue to stay away from work.
The government went ahead to pull out of negotiations to resolve the 95-day strike. The government also withdrew a $5.8 million risk allowance awarded to the striking doctors.
The risk allowance which was to be backdated to July last year, was offered on Monday night during mediation talks led by religious organisations. However, union officials rejected the gesture prompting the government to issue the sack notice.
Here is Kenya’s President, Uhuru Kenyatta criticizing the striking doctors for their posture on the crisis.
You can get the latest on this story here
06: 58 GMT: In business, Nigeria wants to get out of its first recession in a quarter of a century this year. The country will need to put more effort in revamping its infrastructure.
Nigeria’s budget minister, Udoma Udo Udoma has said that the economy was beginning to recover although it was still in a recession.
06: 35 GMT: One of Kenya’s prominent politicians and main opposition figure, Raila Odinga has been treated for food poisoning at a hospital.
Reuters reported that his spokesman confirmed the incident which occurred on Wednesday.
Denis Onyango told Reuters that Mr. Odinga “…was treated for normal food poisoning earlier today [Wednesday] and he is back home,”
06:20 GMT: Good morning and welcome to today’s edition of ‘Africa Feeds Live’. Stay with us for the latest happenings on the continent for the day.
