Chad’s state election body said on Thursday interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby had won the May 6 presidential election outright with more than 61% of the vote, citing provisional results, even as his main challenger declared himself the winner. Chad’s junta has become the first of the coup-hit countries in West and Central Africa to […]
What’s the future of Artificial Intelligence in Africa? When that question is entered into the AI platform ChatGPT, it answers that it “holds immense potential for transformative impact across various sectors,” notably health care, agriculture and education. Human experts tend to agree, and AI is fast becoming the latest frontier in U.S.-China competition on the […]
A Nigerian investigative reporter has spent more than one week in police detention without being brought to court for allegedly violating the country’s cybercrime laws, his employer said, in a case that press freedom groups have condemned as an affront to media freedoms. Under Nigerian law, suspects must be brought to court within 48 hours […]
The Ghanaian-European Centre for Jobs, Migration and Development (GEC) of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Ghana, has provided skills training and start-up support for 40 young people in the country after skills training. The graduates, comprising 22 males and 18 females, participated in a four-month targeted gender digital photography, videography, drone piloting and graphic […]
The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Keith Rowley, departed his country yesterday evening for London en route to Ghana, where he has been invited to attend the celebration of Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II’s 25th year of ascension to the Golden Stool and reign as the Asantehene. The Office of the Prime Minister confirmed […]
The Biden administration is set to tighten access to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border via a new regulation that could be issued as soon as Thursday, four sources familiar with the matter said. The move is aimed at reducing illegal crossings. The regulation would require migrants to be assessed at an initial asylum screening stage […]
Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has signed a controversial new constitution that eliminates presidential elections, a statement from his office said late Monday. It’s a move that opponents say will allow him to extend his family’s six-decade-long rule. Under the new legislation, parliament will have the power to choose the president, doing away with direct elections. […]
Faced with an inability to access offshore credit lines — due to defaulting on previous loans — the government of Zimbabwe is appealing to its diaspora population and foreigners to invest in the Southern African nation. Some citizens in the diaspora are skeptical that their investments would pay off. The government says the Zimbabwe Investment […]
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has lauded the European Union (EU) for being Ghana’s largest multilateral development and trade partner. The Minister made the commendation on Monday in her opening remarks during the Ghana-EU Partnership Dialogue Meeting in Accra. The annual dialogue was held within the framework of […]
The United States called Monday on Rwanda to punish forces behind an attack in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, not backing down from charges Kigali is meddling in its neighbor’s affairs. The State Department accused Rwandan forces Friday of joining M23 rebels in blasts on a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts […]
