Just a few months ago, the man set to be Senegal’s next president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, was sitting in a prison cell, a relatively unknown figure outside his opposition party Pastef. Everything changed for him when the party’s firebrand leader, Ousmane Sonko, who was also detained, was charged with insurrection in July and barred from running in […]
The United Nations children’s fund says there is a “dire situation” in several eastern and southern African countries, where at least 45 million children are dealing with severe food insecurity made worse by climate change. In a statement, Eva Kadilli, the UNICEF director for eastern and southern Africa, said millions of people are living through […]
The United States (US) Embassy in Ghana has trained social media managers, digital influencers and bloggers in combating misinformation, disinformation and fake news ahead of Ghana’s 2024 elections. The workshop, an initiative of the US Embassy in Ghana under the 2024 Elections Speaker Programme, aimed at training the social media executives on misinformation, disinformation, fake […]
Commodities, including cocoa, oil palm, coffee, oil palm, rubber, and wood, farmed (by clearing forest) under a deforested condition will be banned in the European Union (EU) Markets. The world’s largest importer of cocoa, much of it from Ghana and Ivory Coast, says its main reason for the deforestation-free products regulation known as EU Deforestation regulation (EUDR) […]
Egypt will be the host of the next 14th African Games in 2027. The symbolic handing over of the African Union flag was done at the closing ceremony of the 13th edition of the African Games in Accra, Ghana. Mr. Mustapha Ussif, the Youth & Sports Minister of Ghana handed over the flag to the […]
The Embassy of Denmark has expressed commitment to help address Ghana’s water-related challenges. The Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy, Vibeke Sandholm Pedersen, said despite the country’s abundant water resources, access to safe and clean water remained a crucial issue. “Water is life and lack of it brings stress and struggles which sometimes lead […]
Supporters are urging the world’s oldest leader, 91-year-old Cameroonian President Paul Biya, to run for office in the 2025 presidential election, potentially extending his more than four-decade rule. They say Biya is the only one who can bring peace and development to the country, but the opposition says Biya must leave office after running Cameroon […]
Senegal opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye was set to be declared the country’s next president after his rival from the ruling coalition called him Monday to concede defeat. Results trickling in since polls closed Sunday evening in the first round of a delayed presidential election rapidly suggested Faye, 44, may have clinched an outright majority. […]
Donald Trump was ordered Monday to stand trial in a criminal case, the first ever against a U.S. president, on April 15 in New York. The hush money case is perhaps the only one of an unprecedented four indictments against Trump that will go to trial before the November election where he will face President […]
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said the Biden administration has no intention to ban TikTok, the popular short video application from Chinese company ByteDance. Harris told ABC’s “This Week” program on Sunday that a ban was “not at all the goal or the purpose of this conversation.” The White House urged the Senate last week […]
