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Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo was Thurday retained as leader, following a seven-member panel of the country’s top court Judges’ dismissal of the election petition filed by main opposition leader John Mahama. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court said this is because the case had no merit. Former President John Dramani Mahama who contested the 2020 elections on the ticket… Read More

Hundreds of teenage girls abducted last Friday from their boarding school in Jangebe in north-western Nigeria were reunited with their families on Wednesday. State Governor Bello Matawalle had announced the release of 279 girls on Tuesday claiming that all were accounted for — a statement contradictory to the initial declaration of 317 missing girls. Parents could be seen scrambling to… Read More

At least one person died and two were injured when security forces shot live ammunition at people gathered outside the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, north-west Nigeria on Wednesday. They were gathering to catch a glimpse of some of the students kidnapped last week, who were reunited with their families inside the building. The group was trying to get… Read More

Police have seized thousands of counterfeit coronavirus vaccines in South Africa and China and have made more than 80 arrests after a criminal network selling fake jabs was uncovered, Interpol said on Wednesday. In South Africa, police officers found 400 ampoules of fake vaccines, equivalent to around 2,400 doses, at a warehouse just outside Johannesburg. A large quantity of fake… Read More

Arab foreign ministers on Wednesday reappointed a veteran Egyptian diplomat as the Secretary-General of the Cairo-based Arab League. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, a former ambassador to the United Nations and Egypt’s last foreign minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, won the backing of the Arab foreign ministers meeting in the Egyptian capital. During the talks, Aboul Gheit expressed his optimism in… Read More

Ghana and the United Kingdom signed a trade agreement worth $1.6 billion on Wednesday, in one of the latest bilateral deals since Britain exited the European Union. The agreement will allow duty-free and quota-free access for Ghana to the UK market and preferential tariff reductions for UK exporters to the Ghanaian market, according to a statement on the UK government… Read More

Bentonia is the perfect place to sing the blues. It’s home to its own unique style of the musical genre. And the Blue Front Cafe is at the heart of that tradition. On a dusty road in rural Mississippi, it was the first African American-owned business in Bentonia when it opened in 1948. Now it’s the country’s oldest surviving juke… Read More

Reggae music legend Bunny Wailer has died. Born Neville Livingston, the singer, 73, died in his native country of Jamaica. Wailer formed The Wailers in 1963 with the late Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. They would later catapult to fame with the album, “Catch a Fire.” According to Bunny Wailer’s Manager Maxine Stowe, the three-time Grammy winner died Tuesday March… Read More

Senegal’s prominent opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been arrested, his lawyer said on Wednesday after supporters scuffled with security forces ahead of his scheduled court appearance to face a rape charge. Sonko, 46, was heading to court to face the charge, which he denies and says is politically motivated. Hundreds of his supporters followed his motorcade, sounding car horns and… Read More

The former Ivorian Minister of Youth, Charles Blé Goudé is seeking a return to the West African country, months after he was acquitted of rights charges by the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Charles Blé Goudé informed Africanews that he was willing and is ready to jet back to Abidjan, but authorities are blocking him from doing so. “I… Read More