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Ghana Elections: Incumbent president to debate opposition party leaders

Presidential and parliamentary elections are due in Ghana on December 7, but voters are yet to witness a debate featuring the various presidential candidates...

Rwanda investigates French officials over 1994 genocide

Officials in Rwanda have launched a probe into the involvement of some 20 French officials in the 1994 genocide in the country. There has been...

Gambia Election: Jammeh faces rare challenge in December 1 poll

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will face a rare challenge from a revitalized and united opposition in an election on Thursday as he seeks to...

Ugandan monarch charged with murder

King Charles Wesley Mumbere. Photo Credit: BBC     The chief of the Rwenzururu kingdom in western Uganda, Charles Wesley Mumbere has been officially charged with murder...

Uganda orders closure of schools backed by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg

Ugandan authorities have ordered the closure of a chain of “for-profit international schools” backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg over...

[Update] 76 dead in Colombia plane crash

The plane crashed in a mountainous area on its way to Medellin. Photo Credit: TELEANTIOQUIA VIA TWITTER 76 people have now been confirmed by police to...

South Africa’s Zuma survives no-confidence motion by his party

Local media in South Africa is reporting that President Jacob Zuma has survived a motion of no confidence by his own party. An Afrikaans-language daily,...

Guinea Bissau’s dominant party to boycott new government

Guinea Bissau's dominant political party on Monday rejected President Jose Mario Vaz's newly-appointed prime minister and said it would refuse to join his new...

Gunmen kidnap three UNHCR workers in Sudan’s Darfur

Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped three workers from the United Nation's refugee agency in Sudan's restive Darfur region, a local official told Reuters on Monday. The...

Thirsty Somalis trek 60 km for water as drought and conflict bite

A second poor rainy season in Somalia has pushed livestock herders in the drought-hit Puntland region to trek an average of 60 km (40...

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Nigerian High Commission apartments in Ghana demolished

Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers. The apartments have been constructed to...

Covid-19: Ghana records significant recovery numbers

Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered. The significant number of recoveries means the country now...

DR Congo: President’s ex-chief of staff jailed 20 years for corruption

The ex-chief of staff of the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been jailed 20 years by a high court. Vital Kamerhe was...

Covid-19: Zimbabwe’s health minister arrested, charged for graft

Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million. Moyo is accused of illegally...

Ghana’s new law that jails citizens not wearing facemask 10 years

Ghanaians who fail to wear the face masks in compliance with a presidential directive risk going to jail for ten years. They also face a...
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