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Gambia: Adama Barrow To Face Five Others In Presidential Poll

  • November 9, 2021

Gambia’s President Adama Barrow is set to face five other candidates in next month’s presidential election due on December 4. It will be the first time Gambians will be voting for a president without ex-leader Yahya Jammeh contesting. The last time he contested, he refused to concede defeat after losing to current President Adama Barrow. Jammeh however was […]

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EU Ambassador And GrEEn Representative Visit Premier Waste Ghana

  • November 8, 2021

Officials from SNV Ghana and Ambassadors from the European Union (EU) member countries have paid a working visit to Premier Waste Ghana to familiarize themselves with the activities of the facility. Premier Waste Ghana is a waste management startup that provides low-cost plastic waste recovery, collections, and recycling infrastructure with an effective waste pickers network […]

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President Akufo-Addo Leaves For Cape Verde

  • November 8, 2021

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo left Ghana on Monday for Praia, Cape Verde, to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the West African nation’s President-elect, Jose Maria Neves. The President is attending the ceremony in his capacity as the Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Mr Neves, 61, a former Prime […]

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Ethiopians Rally By Thousands To Support Abiy, Denounce US

  • November 8, 2021

Tens of thousands of Ethiopians rallied in Addis Ababa on Sunday in support of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government as federal troops fight rebellious forces who are threatening to march on the city. Some demonstrators denounced the United States, which is among the foreign powers that have called for a cease-fire as a yearlong war […]

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ECOWAS Hardens Stance On Mali, Guinea

  • November 8, 2021

The West African regional grouping ECOWAS on Sunday hardened its stance against military-ruled Mali and Guinea, imposing new individual sanctions and calling on both countries to honor timetables for a return to democracy. The Economic Community of West African States “has decided to sanction all those implicated in the delay” in organizing elections set for […]

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COP26: Thousands March For Glasgow’s Biggest Protest

  • November 6, 2021

About 100,000 people marched in Glasgow to demand more action on the climate crisis, organisers have said. The protest was the biggest so far during the COP26 summit and took place alongside hundreds of similar events around the world. Greta Thunberg joined the march but did not speak, leaving activists such as Vanessa Nakate to […]