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Month: July 2019

Africa Business World 

Do trade wars affect the prices of digital currencies?

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It is no secret that cryptocurrency prices can be volatile. Those of us who have taken the step to sign up with the likes of Luno to acquire a bitcoin wallet and get in on the action have seen prices soar and then come back down to earth just as quick. The reasons for these rapid increase in Bitcoin’s value… Read More
Africa 

2019 Netball World Cup: Team South Africa gets triumphant welcome

Village Reporter
Proteas get big welcome The South African team that participated at the just ended Women’s Netball tournament in England returned home on Tuesday (July 23) to a big welcome. Teeming and cheering fans thronged the Oliver Tambo International Airport to receive the team after their fourth-place finish at the tournament. They were the highest placed African team. The three others,… Read More
Africa Gambia Ghana West Africa World 

REVEALED: Yahya Jammeh ordered 2005 murder of 44 Ghanaians

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After years of denying ordering the murder of over 56 west african migrants in the Gambia, ex-leader Yahya Jammeh has now been implicated by some of his former soldiers. Two Gambian soldiers who worked for Jammeh’s hit squad on Tuesday admitted to participating on Jammeh’s orders in the 2005 execution of the 56 West African migrants, including 44 Ghanaians. Families… Read More
Africa 

Libya: Renewed commitment to Mediterranean rescues encouraging, but ‘overriding priority’ must be ‘lasting peace’, say UN officials

Village Reporter
“The violence in Tripoli in recent weeks has made the situation more desperate than ever, and the need for action critical”, stressed António Vitorino, Director General of the International Organization of Migration (IOM), and Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Disagreements on how to distribute people rescued at sea, led the European Union (EU) to end official Mediterranean Sea… Read More
Africa 

Anglophone prisoners riot in Cameroon amid separatist crisis

Village Reporter
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroonian security forces moved into the capital’s central prison overnight to put down an uprising by inmates protesting at the government’s crackdown on the Anglophone separatist movement and poor conditions inside, inmates’ videos showed. Scores of people from Cameroon’s English-speaking regions have been arrested over the last two years during the conflict between the Francophone-dominated government and… Read More
Africa 

Riot in Cameroon’s central prison

Village Reporter
Four inmates are reported dead after chaos erupted at the Kondengui Central prison in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde. This was confirmed by the spokesperson for the country’s main opposition party, the Social Democratic Front after the library, computer room and administrative offices were reportedly burnt down by some aggrieved inmates during a protest. Dozens of detainees who included political opponents and… Read More
Africa 

Gambia: Yahya Jammeh accused of killing journalist

Village Reporter
Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh was accused on Monday of ordering the murder of AFP correspondent, Deyda Hydara, 15 years ago. During a public hearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a Gambian army officer admitted that he was directly involved in the murder of the journalist critical of Yahya Jammeh’s regime. Deyda Hydara was shot and killed by unidentified… Read More
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