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AU Missions Commemorate Day With Food Bazaar

  • May 27, 2024

Diplomatic missions from various African countries yesterday organised a food bazaar to celebrate the unity and diversity of the continent as part of African Union Day.  Held at the Togolese Embassy in Accra, the event which provided a platform for countries to experience one another’s culture featured traditional music and dance performances by representatives from […]

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Rwanda High Commission Organises Symposium On 1994 Genocide

  • May 27, 2024

The High Commission of Rwanda in Ghana has organised a symposium to commemorate the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The symposium was to raise awareness about the genocide and provide recommendations to policymakers on how to fight against all forms of manifestations of genocide. The symposium, themed “Kwibuka 30, remember, unite and renew” […]

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AU Holds Flag-Raising To Mark 61st Anniversary

  • May 27, 2024

A flag-raising ceremony has been held  to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the formation of the African Union (AU), with a call on Africans to remain resolute and committed to the shared vision of the AU Agenda 2063. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, who made the call in  Accra yesterday after […]

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Zimbabwe Becomes Eighth African Country To Approve Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet Service

  • May 27, 2024

Zimbabwe has become the eighth African nation to authorize Elon Musk’s Starlink to provide satellite internet services.  President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the licensing on Saturday, detailing a partnership between Starlink and IMC Communications (Pvt) Ltd, a local company owned by Wicknell Chivayo, an associate of the president. During the announcement, Mnangagwa emphasized the importance of emerging […]

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Burkina Faso Extends Military Rule For 5 Years To 2029

  • May 27, 2024

Burkina Faso’s military regime, in power since a 2022 coup, will extend its rule for five years under an accord adopted during national consultations on Saturday, the talks’ chairman said. “The duration of the transition is fixed at 60 months from July 2, 2024,” Colonel Moussa Diallo, chairman of the organizing committee of the national […]

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Africa’s Cholera Crisis Is Worse Than Ever

  • May 27, 2024

Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent’s worst outbreaks of cholera. In southern and East Africa, more than 6,000 people have died and nearly 350,000 […]

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ECOWAS Parliament Elects First Female Speaker

  • May 24, 2024

A Member of the Togolese Parliament, Mrs Maimunatu Ibrahima, has been sworn in as the first female speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) says the speaker was sworn in at the second extra-ordinary session of the Parliament on Thursday in Kano, Nigeria. In accordance […]