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Former President and founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said that the Ahwoi’s are predicting the defeat of the NDC in the 2020 election and are seeking to damage his person. According to Jerry John Rawlings, the Ahwoi’s are cocksure that the NPP will not lose the 2020 election and therefore have decided to destroy him so that they can take ...

Crowds rejoiced after a group of colonels seized power in Mali, a vast country stretching into the Sahara, where troops – including French soldiers and UN peacekeepers – are fighting jihadist groups, but not everyone is happy, writes West Africa analyst Paul Melly. Negotiations are rumoured to be under way for the exile of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, deposed as president ...

The New Patriotic Party is set to launch their manifesto for the 2020 general elections on Saturday, August 22. The event will take place at the University of Cape Coast in the Central Region, where the president is currently touring, at 10 am. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the party is hosting the manifesto launch virtually. A press release signed ...

Coup leaders in Mali say a transitional president will be appointed, drawn from either the civilian population or the military. Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was removed in a coup on Tuesday. West African leaders have called for him to be reinstated and the UN has called for the release of officials. But the coup leaders say they are in contact with the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations children’s agency have urged African governments to promote the safe reopening of schools during the coronavirus pandemic. They say prolonged closure of schools is harmful to students and want governments to invest in sanitation facilities to prevent the spread of coronavirus in learning institutions. The two organisations said students are being exposed ...

The inability of parents and guardians to buy sanitary pads and properly feed young girls have been identified as key factors pushing young girls to engage in unprotected sex in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District of the Central Region. Some parents have neglected their core responsibility of caring for their children’s basic needs like food, medical care, shelter, clothing, love, attention, understanding, ...

The Nigerian government says it is taking steps to ensure it ends the ongoing retail trade feud with Ghana. This follows the closure of retail shops owned by foreigners by a task force put together by the Trade Ministry. The PRO of the Ministry had said it is against the laws of Ghana for foreigners to own retail shops in ...

Renowned Kenyan pan-Africanist, Professor of Law and anti-corruption crusader, Patrick Loch Otieno (PLO) Lumumba has admonished the youth to remain resolute in their contribution towards development and unification of the African continent. This he urged them to do without fear of vilification of critics for speaking the truth. Professor Lumumba who was addressing members of the PLO Lumumba Foundation Ghana ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Wednesday cut the sod for the construction of an integrated recycling, compost and water treatment plant at Assakae in the Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipality of the Western Region. The Plant would receive, sort, and process four hundred tonnes of solid waste, and treat some 1,000 cubic meters of waste water of about two million people in the Municipality. The ...

The masterminds of Mali’s coup that ousted President Ibrahim Keïta on Tuesday include the deputy head of a military camp and a French-trained general. BBC Monitoring has profiled three high-ranking military leaders thought to have played key roles in the coup. 1. Col Malick Diaw He is the deputy head of the Kati camp where the mutiny started. There is ...