Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Monday pardoned three journalists detained for years, as hundreds of prisoners saw their sentences commuted to mark the monarch’s 25th anniversary on the throne. Omar Radi, Soulaimane Raissouni and Taoufik Bouachrine, as well as historian and rights advocate Maati Monjib, were among the 2,476 people pardoned, a government official said […]
France has made a key gesture of remembrance for the dozens of African troops shot dead on French army orders in Senegal during World War II, as Paris seeks to ease tensions with former colonies over historical memory, the government said on Sunday. Six of the African soldiers — four from Senegal, one from Ivory […]
Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco. A six-year drought has imperiled the country’s entire agriculture sector, including farmers who grow cereals and grains used to feed humans and livestock. The North African nation projects this year’s harvest will be smaller than last year in both volume and […]
The 2024 Olympics opened in Paris in spectacular style with thousands of athletes sailing along the River Seine past lively performers on bridges, banks and rooftops in an ambitious take on an opening ceremony. Swapping a stadium for a waterway for the first time to open the “greatest show on Earth”, the near four-hour spectacle […]
Ghana will today, 25th July, 2024 outdoor its first phase of 1000 megawatts solar project to provide power for companies in the free zone enclave. At completion, the solar project, which will be the largest solar plant in Africa and the second in the world, would pave the way for companies to produce green products, a requirement to gain access to […]
Representatives of national power regulatory authorities and operators across ECOWAS member states last Monday convened on Accra to deliberate on essential issues concerning the growth of the regional electricity market. The two-day meeting, which ended yesterday, was attended by members of Regulators and Operators Advisory Committees of the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA). Discussions […]
After three days of silence over his stunning decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, U.S. President Joe Biden took to prime time television Tuesday to give Americans, and the world, an explanation in a speech that was at times hopeful, at times determined, and at times wistful. Biden spoke of his five decades […]
Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ghazouani, the Chairperson of the African Union (AU), says the Continental Organisation is working tirelessly to mobilise over $100 billion from multi-lateral financial institutions to support export-based companies in Africa. So far, he said, the AU had mobilised about $38 million and working closely with other economic blocs around the globe, […]
King Charles III welcomed the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu III to the Sandringham House in the United Kingdom on Tuesday. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is currently in the UK as part of his Silver Jubilee celebrations. This is the first visit of the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to the King of England since King […]
The government has signed an agreement with the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) to strengthen cooperation in the prevention of terrorism and transnational organised crime. The Letter of Agreement (LoA) is intended to accelerate the delivery of technical assistance to Ghana under the United Nations Countering Terrorist Travel (CT Travel) programme, build national capacities […]
