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ICC Seeks Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu And Top Hamas Leaders

  • May 20, 2024

The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview […]

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South Africa’s Top Court Rules Zuma Can’t Run In Election

  • May 20, 2024

South Africa’s top court says graft-tainted former president Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run for parliament in the country’s May 29 general election. Zuma left office in 2018, dogged by corruption allegations, and was briefly jailed for contempt. He has since founded a party to challenge his successor Cyril Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC). […]

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State Media Say Iranian President, Foreign Minister Found Dead At Helicopter Crash Site

  • May 20, 2024

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other officials were found dead Monday at the site of a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran, state media said. Search crews found the wreckage Monday, a day after the helicopter crashed in bad weather near Varzaqan in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. The Iranian officials were returning […]

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Media Urged To Collaborate To Fight Climate Change Crises In Africa

  • May 17, 2024

The Ghana government has called for strengthening of collaboration between media, civil society organisations, governments and international bodies to promote press freedom and environmental sustainability in Africa. It said the harsh conditions of climate change on the continent required concerted efforts by all stakeholders to tackle it head-on. Mrs Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, the Chief of […]

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EBID To Inject $200 Million Into Ghanaian Economy

  • May 16, 2024

The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has strengthened its transformative partnership with Ghana by committing to inject $200 million into the Ghanaian economy.  The facility is being offered by EBID to Ghana through strategic alliances with the Ghana Export-Import Bank (GEXIM) and GCB Bank PLC.  A statement issued by EBID and copied to […]