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Ghana: Impacting a community through a library

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In a remote community of Sakyiama in Ghana, a lawyer is making efforts to promote the culture of reading among children with the building of a library. The founder of the Bekoe Public Library, Samuel Yaw Bekoe, grew up in Adieso where he began his primary education. He told Africa Feeds that helping to put up such a library was… Read More
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Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso seek re-entry into AU

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Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso are seeking re-entry into the African Union. The foreign affairs ministers of these countries are in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, to lobby to be let back into the AU as this week’s summit opens. All three countries were suspended from the African Union and the regional grouping Ecowas following military coups. Mali’s foreign ministry said… Read More
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Nigeria: President Buhari extends use of old naira notes amid shortages

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Buhari said that the old 500 and 1,000 naira notes could only be exchanged at the central bank and other designated places. But the 200 naira will remain in use for the next two months. – Advertisement – The central bank wanted the note swap initiative to curb cash in circulation and control double-digit inflation. But the International Monetary Fund… Read More
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Tanzania bans sex education books for children

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Tanzanian has banned children books on sex education from schools. The government said the books violate “cultural and moral standards” of the country. Some critics say the sex education books promote same sex orientations in schools. Homosexuality is criminalized in Tanzania. In Tanzania, homosexuality is punishable by a minimum sentence of 30 years to life imprisonment. President Samia Suluhu Hassan… Read More
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AfCFTA rollout and climate finance must dominate AU Summit Agenda

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The leaders of the 55 member states of the African Union (AU) will be meeting for their 36th ordinary session of the AU Assembly on 18 and 19 February 2023 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 60 years after the birth of the Organisation of African Unity, over 20 years of the AU and 40 years before 2063, this meeting serves as… Read More
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Kenyan legislator ejected over menstrual stain

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A Kenyan legislator had the shock of her life when she was ejected from parliament after attending a session while wearing a white suit that got stained red. Gloria Orwoba had apparently stained her white suit as part of a menstrual activism campaign that she was pushing. Orwoba, from the ruling coalition party, was due to table a motion on… Read More
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Sierra Leone’s David Sengeh gets world best minister award

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Sierra Leone’s head of Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE), Dr. Moinina David Sengeh has been awarded the best global minister award. Sengeh received the award from the World Government Summit Organization, a global, neutral, non-profit organization dedicated to shaping the future of governments. The Summit, in its various activities, explores the agenda of the next generation of governments,… Read More
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Gabon’s president wants presidential mandate reduced to five years

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Gabons President Ali Bongo has been in power since 2009 and in 2018 even had a new constitution adopted that scrapped presidential term limit of two seven-year term. The new constitution at the time received overwhelming votes from members of Gabon’s national assembly. It meant President Bongo could remain in power without any limit but ahead of elections this year,… Read More
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Tullow Oil seeks international arbitration on tax dispute with Ghana

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Tullow Oil has filed for arbitration in London over two tax bills amounting to $387 million which it’s unit in Ghana had received from local authorities. The company made this public in a statement on Tuesday. The two tax charges which Tullow disputes relate to a period from 2010 to 2020 and are in addition to taxes it has already… Read More