The Chief Executive Officer of Happyman Beverages, Dr. Emmanuel Bortey Borketey has made a donation of GHS10,000 to Hearts of Oak to cushion the team in the CAF Champions League. The Premier League Champions are Ghana’s only representatives in any of CAF’s inter-club competitions ahead of the groupings for the 2021/2022 edition. Having eliminated Guinean […]
Continue ReadingEvans Opoku Bobie (MP), Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports has disclosed to the media about Ghana’s readiness to host the 4th African Youth Conneckt Summit at the capital city of Ghana, Accra. According to him, the theme for the summit is “Positioning the Youth to take advantage of the African Continental Free Trade […]
Continue ReadingThe fate of dissidents languishing in Egypt’s prisons has long been under scrutiny, but one veteran is leveraging his political prowess in a bid to have them released. Mohamed al-Sadat, 66, nephew of former president Anwar al-Sadat, the first Arab leader to strike peace with Israel, has long been a fixture of Egypt’s political scene. […]
Continue ReadingA single dose of typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) is safe and 84 percent effective in protecting against typhoid in Malawi, a recent study has found, raising hopes that thousands of children who die from the disease each year can be saved. The study, carried out in Blantyre, Malawi’s commercial hub, involved vaccinating some 28,000 healthy children […]
Continue ReadingCape Verdeans began voting in presidential elections on Sunday, in a contest marked by debate over the future for the tiny west African nation battered by the Covid-driven slump in global tourism. Prior to the pandemic, visitors accounted for a quarter of the economy for the volcanic archipelago, a former Portuguese colony of half a […]
Continue ReadingAfrica’s premier film festival, FESPACO, opened in the capital Ouagadougou on Saturday with a colourful high-energy ceremony and a message: Burkina Faso is back! The biannual cinema event, postponed for eight months due to Covid-19, returned in style for its 27th edition, with an all-singing, all-dancing, star-studded opening ceremony. Recording artist Amzy struck the opening note […]
Continue ReadingSocio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari, asking the court to “declare illegal and unconstitutional the plan by the administration to track, intercept and monitor WhatsApp messages, phone calls, and text messages of Nigerians and other people, as it severely threatens and violates the right to the preservation […]
Continue ReadingRabah Sahili had just turned 19 when he arrived in central Paris for a peaceful demonstration by Algerians 60 years ago. What he witnessed, he told AFP in an interview, was police savagery in a crackdown which killed dozens and perhaps as many as 200, according to historians’ estimates. The official death toll at the […]
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