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US Embassy, Graphic Group Deepen Relations

  • January 19, 2022

The Press Attache of the United States Embassy in Ghana, Mr Kevin J. Brosnahan, has paid a working visit to the News Department of the Graphic Communications Group Ltd (GCGL). Accompanied by the Information Assistant, Mrs Joyce Okyere Asiedu, yesterday’s visit was to familiarise himself with the operations of the Daily Graphic and its sister […]

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Hong Kong To Kill 2,000 Animals After Hamsters Get COVID

  • January 19, 2022

Hong Kong authorities said Tuesday that they will kill about 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, after several tested positive for the coronavirus at a pet store where an employee was also infected. The city will also stop the sale of hamsters and the import of small mammals, according to officials from the Agriculture, Fisheries and […]

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Covid: WHO Warns Pandemic Not Over Amid Europe Case Records

  • January 19, 2022

The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning to world leaders that the coronavirus pandemic “is nowhere near over”. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned against the assumption that the newly dominant Omicron variant is significantly milder and has eliminated the threat posed by the virus. The intervention comes as some European […]

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US Civil Rights Leaders Push For Voting Rights Overhaul

  • January 18, 2022

Descendants of slain U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and their supporters marched on Washington Monday to urge Senate Democrats to overcome Republican opposition and obstruction within their own ranks to push through a national overhaul of voting rights. They rallied on the national holiday honoring King on the 93rd anniversary of his […]

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US Africa Envoy To Visit Saudi Arabia, Sudan And Ethiopia

  • January 17, 2022

The U.S. special envoy for the Horn of Africa will visit Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Ethiopia next week amid ongoing crises in the two African nations, the State Department announced Friday. David Satterfield and Assistant Secretary of State Molly Phee will travel to Riyadh, Khartoum and Addis Ababa from Jan. 17-20. In Riyadh, the pair […]

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Mali Gives Airlines 72 Hours To Confirm Service

  • January 17, 2022

After several airlines discontinued service to Mali due to new regional sanctions, the country’s government has responded with its own economic threat. Mali’s military government Friday gave airlines 72 hours, starting Jan. 15, to confirm their service to Mali with the country’s National Civil Aviation Agency or lose their time slots. In a statement, Transport […]

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Ethiopia On Edge of Humanitarian Disaster, UN Agency Says

  • January 17, 2022

The World Food Program warns Ethiopia is on the edge of a humanitarian disaster as escalating fighting in the north is preventing the delivery of needed food from reaching millions of people in battle-scarred Tigray province. The last time a food convoy was able to reach Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, was mid-December. Millions of acutely hungry […]

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Mali’s Ousted President Keita Dies At 76

  • January 17, 2022

Former Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was ousted by the military in 2020 after a turbulent seven-year rule, has died, officials said on Sunday. He was 76. Known by his initials IBK, Keita ran the West African country from September 2013 to August 2020, when Islamist insurgents overran large areas, draining his popularity. Disputed […]