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In Ghana, there is a trial which is monitored, scrutinised by the public opinion. It involves money, illegal gold-mining and spectacular escape. Over social media galamsey is a highly used hashtag .  Since the trial… Read More

The Gambia step up its health measures including better quality control over imported medicines after the mysterious death of dozens of children. The Gambian president Adama Barrow address the nation on the incident Friday. “Fellow Gambians, residents of The Gambia, I assure you all that the Government will leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom of this incident”,… Read More

The ninth Women’s Rugby World Cup kicked off in front of a world-record audience at Auckland’s Eden Park, New Zealand, on Saturday.  In the opening match of the tournament, the South African Women Bok failed to secure a vitory. French scrumhalf Laur Sansus scored the first try of the World Cup after only two minutes. The score remained 19-0 at… Read More

Thousands of travelers remained stranded Friday in Nigeria’s Kogi state after major roads connecting the northcentral state to other parts of the nation were submerged amid the country’s worst flooding in a decade. The floods have killed seven people, the Kogi commissioner for information said. “Five days complete now, all the transport we carry, we don’t feel safe now”, Yahaya… Read More

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been set free following the expiry of his prison sentence for contempt of court, a government department said on Friday. Zuma received a 15-month sentence last year after he ignored instructions to participate in a corruption inquiry. He handed himself in on July 7 last year to begin his sentence, triggering the worst… Read More

The Kenyan telecoms giant Safaricom announced on Thursday that it had signed a deal to provide a mobile money transfer service in Ethiopia, making it the first private telecoms operator in Africa’s second most populous country. Safaricom’s entry into Ethiopia ends the monopoly of state-owned Ethio Telecom in the tightly controlled country of more than 110 million people. Safaricom has… Read More

A French-backed forum to promote democracy among young people in Africa was launched this Friday in South Africa, one year after the idea was unveiled at a French-African Summit. The Innovation Foundation for Democracy (FIDEMO) will be based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Cameroonian intellectual and man behind the idea, Achille Mbembe, is a member of the… Read More

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari has confirmed plans to remove a costly petrol subsidy as he presented Friday his final budget as leader of the west African foreseeing deep revenue shortfalls. Despite being a major oil exporter, Nigeria imports the bulk of its petrol and a subsidy keeps the prices at the pump low for consumers. While popular with Nigerians, the subsidy… Read More

Nigerian president Mohammadu Buhari has met with the freed remaining passengers from the train attack in March in the northwestern part of the country. The attack saw dozens kidnapped and six others killed. General Leo Irabor, Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff confirmed the release of the remaining hostages qnd presented them to Buhari on Thursday. “Thankfully, the balance of the… Read More

Polls have closed in Lesotho where voters some draped in traditional shepherd’s blankets walked for miles to cast their ballots on Friday in parliamentary elections. Polls remained open until 3:00 p.m. GMT, and counting began immediately after the polls closed. The wait often lasted for hours under a harsh sun in the 80 or so constituencies of the country of… Read More