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Ghana’s Black Star’s compensated for their 3-0 loss to Mali by beating Asian champions Qatar 5-1 in a friendly played in Turkey on Monday. Jordan Ayew, Tariqe Fosu, Samuel Owusu and Caleb Ekuban were all on target as Ghana humiliated a sluggish Qatari side. Watch here: Read More

Nigerian Youth Not Convinced Around 2,000 Nigerian youth were back on the streets in protest on Monday — blocking a main highway in the country’s economic hub, Lagos, as they put added pressure on the government to concretely honour the pledge to dissolve the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. A police unit which has been accused of unlawful arrests, torture and extra-judicial… Read More

Put Libya First The United Nations (UN) stated on Monday that only those who truly carry the best interest of the country at heart and without ulterior motives in the form of political career aspirations will be welcome to participate in the ideally forward-moving inter-Libyan political dialogue, scheduled to take place in Tunisia in early November. “I make it a… Read More

Amnesty International alleges in a report published on Monday that Tanzanian President John Magufuli’s government is actively repressing the political opposition as rapidly-passed laws restricting the freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association are being weaponized to control and stifle anyone within the population that opposes the current head of state. A tactic that the Human Rights NGO states has… Read More

Angola’s President, Joao Lourenço continues to go after former president José Eduardo Dos Santos. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Lourenco estimated that the country lost up to US$24 billion dollars under the former administration of president José Eduardo dos Santos. According to the president, over half of the figure US$13.5 billion dollars, were diverted through fraudulent contracts… Read More

ECOWAS Official Visit The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo arrived in Bamako on Sunday as he — the head of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), was on an official assessment mission in Mali. The visit came after the lifting of sanctions on the West African country — initially imposed by the 15 nation bloc in light of… Read More

The virus has kept schools in Uganda closed since March. While salaries for teachers employed in government schools have kept coming, an estimated 150,000 teachers in private schools have not been paid for months. Now, some like Brenda Kemigisha are doing small businesses to survive. She has started a shop selling children’s clothes and shoes. Until March, she had made… Read More

Nigeria on Sunday dissolved a special police unit set up to fight violent crimes after deadly protests and a social media campaign backed by music and cinema celebrities rose up against years of alleged abuses. The president’s office and the Nigeria Police Force announced the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) with immediate effect. The police statement also announced… Read More

INTERVIEW WITH STEVE DEDE, SENIOR EDITOR AT ‘PULSE NIGERIA’ Nigerian youth are staging protests against serious human rights violations committed by one of the country’s police force units. #EndSARS, a top trending hashtag on Twitter in the past week — both in Nigeria and worldwide.It was created by aggrieved Nigerian youth who are calling for the dissolution of the Special… Read More

Black Lives Matter? The United States White House grounds in Washington DC saw hundreds gathered on Saturday — both local residents and from out of state, for President Donald Trump’s first public event since testing positive for Covid-19 several days prior. This came after an earlier rally that day on the Ellipse organised by black American conservative activist Candance Owens… Read More